The Car Wash Life

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Friday, January 31, 2020

To Fleet or Not to Fleet?

A guy from 1-800-GotJunk inquired about doing a fleet membership for their trucks. They would use the self-service bays. I looked into with the self-service bay credit card system. The system can do fleet, but to set it up costs about two grand, plus a $30 monthly fee and a 6% fee to the system... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Keys Found

Here is the latest on some things that I have been blogging about lately. Ann saved the day. She looked hard around the kitchen and found the vacuum keys. We have about a dozen of them, and they have the number on them in case we never need more in the future. A lot of money was saved thanks to her.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Better Mechanically

Things have been going well as of late on the mechanical front. Not long ago, I wrote about how we were diluted with mechanical problems, so much so that Howard Booth was working a crazy schedule that I could tell was burning him out. Fortunately, things have stabilized, and Howard is not working as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 26, 2020

The Broken Key

Emptying out keys breaking is a side effect of the car wash industry. Emptying out keys are used a ton and out in the elements. Keys are going to wear down. The latest such event occurred on Friday, when the key that empties out most of the vacuums at Location B broke. The key goes to 10 vacuums and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Slow Pay

I don't believe there is a contractor out there that would accuse Royal Farms of being quick pay. Dad's arrangement managing their car wash has been no different. The slow pay from Royal Farms has been a source of frustration for Dad. What magnifies it is that we have been incredibly slow as of... Sign in to see full entry.

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