Commercial and agricultural fleets
Fleet Washing Services in San Luis Obispo County
We wash at your yard, first thing or at the end of the day, so your units are not off the road during a shift. Corey Byler is the one running the brush, and nothing is handed to a subcontractor.
Mon to Sat, 7am to 6pm · License #17881 · Insured to $1,000,000
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A fleet gets dirty three different ways in this county
Road film, field dust and salt each need a different answer, and most fleets carry all three.
A work truck picks up more than dust on Highway 101. Diesel soot, brake dust and tire rubber bind into an oily gray film that sits on the paint and will not come off with a hose. Run the corridor between San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria and Paso Robles five days a week and it builds up until the truck reads dull from thirty feet. That matters when the truck is parked in a customer's driveway in Arroyo Grande with your phone number on the door, because the truck is the first thing they judge.
Inland yards have a different problem. Around Paso Robles, Templeton, Creston and out through the Santa Maria Valley, trucks and trailers come home caked in field dust and dried mud packed into wheel wells, rocker panels and the underside of every frame. Harvest adds a fine grit every autumn that gets into everything. Then there is the well water most of those yards run on. Hose a truck down with hard water, let it dry in the sun, and the calcium bakes into the clear coat as spots that a later wash will not lift.
On the coast it is salt. From Morro Bay up through Cayucos and Cambria, and south through Avila Beach, Shell Beach, Pismo Beach and Oceano, the marine layer lays a salt film on anything parked outside overnight, and the fog holds it damp instead of letting it dry off. Salt does not just look bad. It works into door bottoms, trailer frames, wheel wells and every seam, and it starts corrosion. From roughly May into October nothing rains it off, so whatever lands stays until somebody washes it.
How the job actually runs in a working yard
Corey Byler is on the job, not just on the invoice. Nothing is subcontracted at any point, so the person who quoted your yard is the person walking the brush around your trucks.
We walk the yard before we quote
Units get counted and sorted by type, because a pickup and a twenty six foot box truck are not the same job. We note wraps, lettering, lifting decal edges, failing clear coat and existing rust so none of it gets blamed on the wash later.
Water and runoff get sorted first
We find the spigot, check the flow and work out where the water goes before anything gets wet. Gravel and landscaped ground is simple. A paved lot draining to a storm inlet means the wash area gets positioned so runoff stays out of it.
Soak the bottom half, then the wheels
Most of the grime lives below the belt line: rocker panels, mud flaps, wheel wells, tires and frames. Those get a cleaner and a few minutes of dwell time so the grit floats off instead of getting dragged across paint by a brush.
Brushed by hand, top down, low pressure on the panels
Painted panels, box sides, roll up doors, wraps and lettering get a soft brush and a cleaning solution at roughly garden hose pressure. High pressure held near a decal edge gets under the vinyl and lifts it, and lifted vinyl never lays back down.
Rinse before it dries, then walk it with your yard manager
Panels get rinsed section by section so hard water never sits and spots, and glass, mirrors and light lenses get finished. Then we walk the line with whoever runs the yard, and anything you are not happy with gets put right there and then.
What is included
- Pickups, service bodies, flatbeds, stake beds, vans and box trucks
- Trailers: enclosed, dump, flatbed and gooseneck, including frames, tongues and wheel wells
- Farm and site equipment: tractors, skid steers, mowers, implements and towable gear
- Wheels, tires, wheel wells, rocker panels, mud flaps and steps, where most of the road grime actually sits
- Wraps, lettering and decals washed by hand at low pressure, so no edge gets lifted
- Box sides and roll up doors, plus glass, mirrors and light lenses
- Washed on site at your yard, so no unit gets driven to a bay and taken out of service for half a day
- A walk around with your yard manager before we pull out. No job is too big or too small
What we do not do
Worth saying plainly, so nobody is waiting on something we were never going to do.
- Interior detailing. We wash the outside of the unit, not cabs, seats or carpets.
- Waxing, buffing, paint correction and ceramic coating. That is a detailer's trade, not ours.
- Engine bays. We do not spray down engine compartments, wiring or electronics.
- The yard itself. Oil stained slab, wash pads and shop floors are concrete cleaning, and that is a separate job on its own page.
- Body or mechanical repair. We will show you rust, lifting wrap edges and failing clear coat, but fixing them is somebody else's work.
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What fleet washing costs around here
Central Coast market rates for on site fleet washing generally run somewhere around $15 to $35 per pickup or van, and roughly $35 to $75 for a box truck or a larger straight truck, with tractor and trailer combinations higher again. Heavy equipment and one off deep cleans are usually priced by the hour, often in the $75 to $150 range. Those are regional ranges to set expectations, not our quote. Tell us the unit count, what they are and where the yard is, and you get a real number.
Unit count, and whether they are all in one place
Fifteen units parked in one yard on one visit costs far less per unit than three. Setup and pack down is most of the cost on a small job, and it only happens once no matter how many trucks are lined up.
What the units actually are
A half ton pickup and a twenty six foot box truck take very different amounts of time, and a dump trailer with a week of Creston clay dried onto the frame takes longer than either.
How bad it is when we arrive
Highway 101 road film comes off in a normal wash. Caked field mud, harvest grit packed into wheel wells, and concrete or asphalt splatter on a contractor trailer all need soaking and hand work, and that is time on site.
Water and power at the yard
A working spigot with decent flow near where the trucks park is the cheap version. Poor flow means waiting on the hose, and no water on site at all means we haul it in.
Runoff and where the lot drains
Gravel or landscaped ground is straightforward. A paved yard that drains straight into a storm inlet means the wash area has to be planned around it, and sometimes contained, which adds time.
One off or on a route
A standing weekly, biweekly or monthly visit costs less per unit than a one off, because the film never gets old enough to need the slow work. Fitting around dispatch at 7:00 AM or at the end of the day is part of the arrangement.
No obligation, no pressure, no call center
We Guarantee 100% Satisfaction
Every job finishes the same way: a walk around with you before we pack up, so anything you are not happy with gets put right there and then. Corey Byler is the one doing that walk around. Business License #17881, insured to $1,000,000, and no part of the job handed to somebody else.
Fleet Washing questions we get asked
Do you wash fleet vehicles on site at our yard?
Will washing damage the vinyl wrap or lettering on my trucks?
Can you wash our trucks before the crews take them out in the morning?
Do you wash tractors, trailers and heavy equipment as well as trucks?
How often should a work fleet be washed on the Central Coast?
Are you licensed and insured to work in our yard, and can we get a certificate?
Service area
One truck, the whole county
From the fog line in Cambria down to Santa Maria and inland through Paso and Creston. If you are on this list we get out to you. If you are just off it, call anyway and we will tell you straight.
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Send an address and we will get you a real number. Residential or commercial, anywhere from Cambria to Santa Maria.
Monday to Saturday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Owner operated · Nothing subcontracted