Many manufacturers of truck wash equipment make their equipment look really nice some of the units in fact look rather pretty, powder coated and well designed, but they totally miss the point. Too often people manufacture stuff but never use it in real life. Why does this happen? Well for a couple of reasons, many of the companies that make this stuff are in the car wash equipment industry, not the truck washing sub-sector.

These guys are not in the trucking industry and they are asking customers and purchasing agents what they want. But they don’t know what to tell them either. You have to own a truck, drive a truck and try to see out the windows. You have to own a trucking company and fleets or maintain them to know. These guys do not get it, too perspective based in their thinking.

Additionally it is my sincere belief that many of these truck wash equipment manufacturers need classes on Finite Capacity Scheduling, Modern Day Manufacturing Processes and apply that to the truck wash business. They do not get it because they lack the proper members of the team and do not have enough All Arounds. Read the rest of this entry »