I talked to a couple of guys about 5 years ago who did carts. Their boss sent them all over the USA. they had accounts in washington, Idaho, Oregon, and even as far as New Jersey. They washed and did repairs. The plastic grips and fold-down plastic thing that made a place to put the kid, any ad mats were supplied by the store. Wheels were supplied by the presure washers. They used to put the carts in a row and was a bunch at a time. the next time I saw them they had a trailer that was hooked up to the prerssure washer in the pick-up box. the trailer had piping and nozzles. Nozzles were at the ceiling and not the sides. A drain in the floor led to a pump and them to a filter( a bunch of pink fiberglass insulation)on top of a 55 gallon barrel. They recycled most of the water, but not all. They pushed a bunch of carts into the trailer, closed the door and turned on the water. They downstreamed first and then rinsed off. They claimed they used bioi-degradible soap. they also said the trailer method did not work very well or fast and did not like it. I do not think the pw was large enough for the number of nozzles they had. the trailer was not large enought to put in bakery carts, so still had to wash those outside of the trailer. I think that a mat would work better than the set-up thsy usesd. These guys were on the road a month at a time, hard on the home life.
The crew went and did only as they were told, no initiative allowd at all. They did not do cold calls, and were not allowed to do so. They only did national accounts that were already set up.
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