Can this be done Part Time?

[SErep]

YOu should definitely attend the Car Wash College Maintenance program if you intend to do this. Although intended for tunnel opertors, the info will help you as well.

 

[Jon_M]

Thank you all again for all the replies,

Woohoo I have my first problem so the Laser 4000 is down I will post the issue in the IBA section

This is the type of thing you all have mentioned about doing this part time. I will not be able to be there for 6 more hours and I have no idea of how many customers this will affect, I am hoping not too many, I hope I can solve the problem. We will see

Thanks

Jon

 

[MEP001]

That's part of the problem with being so unavailable during the day. Six hours down is a long time, and Lasers are down a lot. You will very quickly lose your customer base if you can't keep the machine up 99% of the time.

I use this as an indicator of our customers' loyalty: the rare times our Vector is down, customers will ask me how long it'll be out. Considering there's a Laser less than 100 yards away and on the same patch of concrete and they'd rather come back later for the Vector than use the Laser, I know we have something better to offer.

 

[Kevin James]

It took my girlfriend and I a total of 37 minutes to clean the wash this morning. She washed down the bays and I cleaned the lot and dumped the garbage. Checked the levels of the soap tanks on my way out the door.

 

[MEP001]

You've made your point already. You're a "pick up the money once a week" operator.

 

[Louise]

A surveillance system with a couple of cameras, including one in the equipment room, with the ability to watch the wash remotely via computer would help you out tremendously.

My clean-up/maintenance guy works about 20 hours per week and I work approx. 15 hours per week. Surveillance helps in that I can spot a serious problem and get over to the wash to make a repair or shut an auto down.

3ss/2 auto

 

[MEP001]

A surveillance system with a couple of cameras, including one in the equipment room, with the ability to watch the wash remotely via computer would help you out tremendously.

It does, and not just from being able to see what's going on. I can now track almost all license plates and see almost every inch of the lot. The cameras are conspicuous, and a lot of the problems, mainly drug users rolling blunts in the bays, have stopped. I caught a guy filling the dumpster and called his company to pay for an extra trash pick-up. It'll be a long time before they actually pay for themselves, but it has helped a lot overall.

 

[Fatboy769]

You've made your point already. You're a "pick up the money once a week" operator.

Oh, how I wished my competition operated like that. Taking all their buisness, would be like taking candy from a baby!