The Moore Coal Co people don’t like to lock the dumpster back. But the people around the car wash don’t mind!
Wal-Mart Garbage Bags!
And a Pepsi can!
Bag of Garbage!
Love garbage bags!
Car Accident
Police report: White car drove off road then went into ditch. Not good. Driver hurt. Someone called 911.
Don’t ask me how I got the Police report. I have connections.
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010
There was a new trend in the market this year at the ICA show and it was all web based. Two companies actually had booths, one I found their booth and the other I could not find. Then the 3rd company came over to the secwa booth, but I don’t think that they had their own booth. So the idea is this: your customer wants to wash their car, so they search the internet and somehow find one of these search sites. All the sites are basically the same: you have to enter your information and then people can search for your location. They also have coupons and you can run specials. ClosestCarWash.com looks like it was developed this year while mycarwashsavings.com looks like I developed it in the 1980s.
I talked to these guys at ClosestCarWash.com and they were really nice. They like the color orange and they unfortunately tell your customers the next 3 days worth of weather. 🙂 But on the plus side the website looks good and is really the only one out there!
mycarwashsavings.com Why would you use flash as my main navigator, which eliminates most mobile devices? And why do you have to use a plugin no one uses for a video player? I looked at this web site and I tried to figure out what they were doing. They want a lot of money for there service and they want the customer to pay them instead of you. Of course they take their cut of like 25%? I wouldn’t give them my credit card information if I was a customer or a carwash owner. Also their twitter account is already suspended and they still have the link on their page. Bad sign!
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010
Here are some more pictures from the ICA show. I always go by the ERIE booth but I didn’t purchase anything this year. I went by Self Service CarWashNews to take a magazine even though I subscribe, for the flight back. I also like to go by Ra-Lock but their products seemed the same this year. Which I guess is good? No real break in problems this year.
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010 – Green Pavilion
Why is it every time I hear the word GREEN it makes me feel like there is a scam involved? The ICA had a Green Pavilion this year and you think “what are people trying to sell us this time?” But this is really bad even though I am not a treehugger.
From the ICA website ” All products accepted into the Green Pavilion must meet at least one of the following criteria” ONE!!!???
“Less toxic, Minimally polluting, More energy efficient, Safer and healthier for customers employees and the environment”
What product wouldn’t qualify? This is absolutely hilarious and makes you wonder about all the other GREEN scams out there!
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010
This was a new product that everyone was talking about this year. It was from Hydra-Flex Inc. the Aqua-Lsb TX 9000F Chemical Delivery System. Wow that is a mouth full! The big unit (first picture) costs around $15,000 and it replaces all your hydrominders with injectors and delivery pumps. You can supposedly save up to 20% including electricity, water, chemical and maintenance! But not really sure what the difference would be if you regulated your water into your hydrominders? Also the other problem they pointed out was the hydrominder tips ware and that is how the unit saves on chemicals.
The little unit (last picture) I was told was for self-serve but I talked to Hydra-Flex last year (when they only sold injectors) and they said injectors were not good for self-serve, only automatics and tunnels so who knows? The guy was also trying to sell a unit to my Dad. 🙂
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010
Fragramatics sells the largest vacuum in the WORLD! Just what you need… a vacuum with everything on it. Talk about everything being in a huge knot every time someone uses anything. Just seems like a bad idea. Couple that with the unit probably being hard to work on for repairs like the older models. But I think they look the best in the business though, which is good except for the ugly flower. Well I thought it was fine until Greg pointed it out to me now I hate the flower.
Just a large air compressor… that’s all.
This was an interesting product. A basic J.E. Adams vacuum with a credit card reader, bill acceptor and coin acceptor.
A D/H Dilling-Harris self-serve bay in a vacuum stand!
International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010
This looks like it would be fun driving around the neighborhood!
I like RFID but this year they seemed to not push it as much.
Something that was really hard to find were dog washes. Also no motorcycle washes like last year.