| Most mobile car wash companies soon realize that | | | | crew unless you are doing and auto auction starting at |
| they spend a lot of money driving around between | | | | 2:30 AM in the morning because you had to finish by 9 |
| customers and thus, it makes sense to wash in places | | | | AM with all the cars. In that case you might need a |
| where you can clean the most amount of cars - such | | | | crew of 10, but when you've completed you would |
| as a large parking lot with lots of customers. But then | | | | have done in the neighborhood of 1500 cars, and even |
| they realize the largest parking lots with the most cars | | | | if you are only getting $.65 to a dollar for each car you |
| are generally car dealerships, and the cars are all in | | | | are still making money. |
| perfect rows and lots of them. Okay so, cleaning car | | | | There's a lot more to all this and I'd like to give you |
| lot cars makes sense. But how many people does it | | | | more information, but there is quite a bit of regional and |
| take to do this, what are the labor crew staffing | | | | seasonal variation in car lot cleaning, which must be |
| requirements? | | | | taken into consideration when staffing for car lot |
| Not long ago, a gentleman asked me this question, he | | | | washing with a mobile car washing business. In fact, it |
| owns a mobile car washing company; "On a 200 car | | | | might make sense to look as some digital pictures in |
| lot how many in a crew would you recommend?" | | | | digital of all of your equipment, and the area in which |
| Really you want to keep labor down to a minimum. I | | | | you are working. There is a lot more to this business |
| don't know what area you are in but if you are | | | | than it may seem. |
| working at a place like Florida, Arizona, Los Angeles, | | | | It's simple in one regard because you're just washing |
| Southern Texas, then I wouldn't recommend using any | | | | stuff, but it's also completely complicated due to |
| soap and you can actually have one or two people on | | | | regional variation, and you must treat it like a rocket |
| the crew. If you only have two people it is best if the | | | | science, efficiency is paramount, it's really about |
| dryer goes really fast but hangs back about 7 to 10 | | | | production - like an assembly line. Total efficiency, not |
| cars, never getting any closer to the sprayer than five | | | | one wasted human motion, or one extra step should |
| cars, leaving plenty of time for the cars to drip dry a | | | | be taken, seriously, precision in production, that's how |
| little. | | | | you make money and compete. Please consider all |
| Indeed, I wouldn't have more than three people on a | | | | this. |