biggerstuff:
If the company have the courtesey to supply me with a nice motor, then it’s only right to keep it clean and tidy.
+1 agree totally.
biggerstuff:
If the company have the courtesey to supply me with a nice motor, then it’s only right to keep it clean and tidy.
In work time or your own?
I wish someone would invent a wheelwash that actually does what it says. I don’t need muddy water all over the glass/mirrors/right side of my face.
I cleaned my motor out top to bottom on Monday between 11 and 11:50. By 12:30 there was a fine coating of dust all over the interior again.
Explain to me again how I should keep it clean? 
NathanB:
biggerstuff:
If the company have the courtesey to supply me with a nice motor, then it’s only right to keep it clean and tidy.In work time or your own?
Work time for me, wouldn’t do it in my own time! 
Don’t see why people don’t bother to clean (providing it’s in work time)
I’m proud to be driving around in a clean and well maintained lorry.
LR18-8:
Don’t see why people don’t bother to clean (providing it’s in work time)I’m proud to be driving around in a clean and well maintained lorry.
+1.
We all know what pride comes before don’t we?
Frilly curtains and dreamcatchers.
xfmatt:
A wagon is there to earn money for the company not too look nice and shiny for the truck spotters among us. Get over it. If there’s a choice between a mucky wagon and being busy or sparkling wagon and just ticking over I’d take the first option every time.
But on the other hand a smart and clean lorry can generate business. We run a smart fleet and I’ve lost count of the number of positive comments about our trucks when I’ve turned up delivering a customers goods. Some even phone my boss cos they want their goods on our wagons.
Yes I polish my truck, the boss provides it and I’ll use it. There’s a nice paint job on my truck, and when she’s clean and the sun catches her right, she looks the ■■■■■■■■
DaiDap:
xfmatt:
A wagon is there to earn money for the company not too look nice and shiny for the truck spotters among us. Get over it. If there’s a choice between a mucky wagon and being busy or sparkling wagon and just ticking over I’d take the first option every time.But on the other hand a smart and clean lorry can generate business. We run a smart fleet and I’ve lost count of the number of positive comments about our trucks when I’ve turned up delivering a customers goods. Some even phone my boss cos they want their goods on our wagons.
Yes I polish my truck, the boss provides it and I’ll use it. There’s a nice paint job on my truck, and when she’s clean and the sun catches her right, she looks the ■■■■■■■■
I’d say it did once upon a time, I’m pretty sure nowadays 99% of firms just go for the cheapest option and couldn’t give a toss what the motor their goods arrive on looks like. 
DaiDap:
xfmatt:
A wagon is there to earn money for the company not too look nice and shiny for the truck spotters among us. Get over it. If there’s a choice between a mucky wagon and being busy or sparkling wagon and just ticking over I’d take the first option every time.But on the other hand a smart and clean lorry can generate business. We run a smart fleet and I’ve lost count of the number of positive comments about our trucks when I’ve turned up delivering a customers goods. Some even phone my boss cos they want their goods on our wagons.
Yes I polish my truck, the boss provides it and I’ll use it. There’s a nice paint job on my truck, and when she’s clean and the sun catches her right, she looks the ■■■■■■■■
I agree in some ways that it will generate a bit of business but if your lot quote £200 for a job with your nice fancy motors polished up to the hilt and gleaming paint job and then I come along with my bog standard MAN that’s never seen a sniff of polish and offer to do it at £180 who do you think will get the job? Unfortunately image and reputation is not guaranteed to get the job anymore as money is all anything comes down to!
Happydaze:
I’d say it id once upon a time, I’m pretty sure nowadays 99% of firms just go for the cheapest option and couldn’t give a toss what the motor their goods arrive on looks like.
99%? Maybe you’re right, but there’s always that 1%.
Perhaps me and you don’t move in the same circles 
DaiDap:
Happydaze:
I’d say it id once upon a time, I’m pretty sure nowadays 99% of firms just go for the cheapest option and couldn’t give a toss what the motor their goods arrive on looks like.99%? Maybe you’re right, but there’s always that 1%.
Perhaps me and you don’t move in the same circles
Ah I don’t mean 99% per se. The 1% are no doubt there, it’s finding them that’s the trick!
I’d say you move in slightly cleaner circles than I do! (Ooh matron!)
xfmatt:
I agree in some ways that it will generate a bit of business but if your lot quote £200 for a job with your nice fancy motors polished up to the hilt and gleaming paint job and then I come along with my bog standard MAN that’s never seen a sniff of polish and offer to do it at £180 who do you think will get the job? Unfortunately image and reputation is not guaranteed to get the job anymore as money is all anything comes down to!
I agree entirely your £180 MAN will get the job, but there are some businesses who are fed up of Johnny Couldn’t Give A Toss who turn up late and damage their goods, and they see a minging wagon as a reflection of their attitude, so they look to someone who does seem to care and that’s when they ring the number on the side of our lorries.
Happydaze:
I wish someone would invent a wheelwash that actually does what it says. I don’t need muddy water all over the glass/mirrors/right side of my face.I cleaned my motor out top to bottom on Monday between 11 and 11:50. By 12:30 there was a fine coating of dust all over the interior again.
Explain to me again how I should keep it clean?
Tell me about it I like to have clean mirrors and that muddy water from wheel washes and sprinklers in skip yards is a ■■■■■ to get off unless you do it straight away.
Id consider myself as a car and truck enthusiast but dam i hate cleaning the things, only because im back to square one the next day.
I like my truck to be clean & tidy the same as my car but the day driver is a waste of space . The lazy bar steward can’t empty his rubbish or fill the washers etc . It’s like fighting a losing battle ! I hate sitting in a cab that stinks of smoke
I’m That pushed to get done let alone spend time washing mine plus even if I did get time soon as it goes out at night it would come back stinkin again oh and without fuel and adblue
I have talked to a driver who got pulled by vosa,they have a really good looking fleet not big but nice and they said to him how clean his truck was and the reply was we wash them saturday morning when they have finished and guess what none of it is recorded now vosa are in there big time 
A l c:
I have talked to a driver who got pulled by vosa,they have a really good looking fleet not big but nice and they said to him how clean his truck was and the reply was we wash them saturday morning when they have finished and guess what none of it is recorded now vosa are in there big time
Not a good bloke to rob a bank with then?
Because they have better things to do / to spend money on?
My car is usually dusted, when it the yard, and when I park it on main street where there is no empty parking lot on my residential parking area, it always gets dirty from the passing vehicles… So if I wanted it to be clean all the time, I would have to wash it every wet day when parked on main street and every dry day when parked in the yard…
I wash it instead when it becomes really dirty or in warm days in winter to get rid of the salt. But it’s always clean inside and smells nice - this is what I really care about, because I am inside the car, not outside it.
I don’t need to build my reputation on if I have clear car or not, I am not defined by that.
As for workvans - well, they are rarely ever washed, I tried once, but I think the dirt has biten into the paintwork and you would propably have to repaint it to make it looking good… It’s not my company, I can’t do more than the bosses want, so I just make sure that it’s roadworthy and thats it.