Mobile washing for snow plows, salt trucks, and public works fleets. Hot water wash • Salt-neutralizing chemistry • Bid-document-ready records.
The Problem
Every winter, road-salt brine coats every plow, salt truck, dump truck, and parks vehicle from the lower body up. Salt doesn't just look bad. It eats. Frame seams rust from the inside out. Wheel wells and rocker panels lose structural integrity in three to five years instead of ten. Lighting and electrical connections corrode and fail mid-shift, taking units off-line during the very season you need them most. The damage is invisible until it isn't.
Municipal budgets don't have room for early replacement. A fleet of 30 plow trucks at $200,000 each is a budget item that has to last. Predictable maintenance — including regular winter washes that strip salt before it bonds — is the difference between a 12-year fleet life and a 6-year one. The math at city-council bid time is brutal in either direction. A documented wash program is one of the cheapest line items that protects the most expensive asset on the books.
For Tazewell, Peoria, and Woodford county public works directors, the bid-cycle pressure runs alongside the operational pressure. Procurement documents specify maintenance frequency. Insurance underwriters look at corrosion patterns. State auditors look at fleet age versus condition. A documented after-hours wash program protects the budget, the fleet, and the next bid response.
Our Approach
We bring a hot water wash system to your yard — high-pressure heat at the wand paired with salt-neutralizing chemistry chosen specifically for chloride residue. Heat dissolves the salt-brine bond before pressure tries to lift it. Cold water just dilutes the brine across more surface. Our trucks carry their own water and reclaim equipment, so the chloride-loaded runoff goes home with us — not into your municipal stormwater system.
We work between snow events. Plow and salt fleets cycle from idle to full deployment in hours; we schedule around your dispatch and storm forecast. Same crew, same yard, same quality — every visit. Crews learn your fleet: which plows are front-line versus reserve, which salt trucks have known electrical-corrosion points, and which parks units need extra care around hydraulic lift hardware.
For municipal fleets, attention goes where salt corrosion hits hardest: undercarriages and frame seams, wheel wells and rocker panels, lighting connections and reflective tape, plow mounts and salt-spreader hardware, parks-vehicle hydraulic lift areas. We document every wash with date, unit number, crew lead, and time on site — producing the bid-document audit trail your procurement team needs without extra paperwork.
Front-line and reserve plow units. Plow mount and pivot hardware, frame, undercarriage, lighting harness, cab. Salt-residue removal at every wash to slow frame corrosion.
Spreader-equipped salt trucks and brine application units. Spreader hardware, hopper exterior, body, frame, electrical harnesses. Chloride exposure is constant; wash frequency is the only defense.
Year-round municipal dump trucks. Bed, tailgate, fender wells, undercarriage. Mud in summer, salt in winter, asphalt patch residue most months. Hot water handles all three.
Mowers, turf equipment, parks pickups, utility carts. Grass-clipping residue, mud, fuel-spill film. Detail work around hydraulic lift hardware and PTO connections.
Public works service trucks, mechanic trucks, water-utility rigs, traffic-signal trucks. Same hot water system, technique tuned to the residue mix on each unit type.
Bid-Document Ready
For municipal and county procurement: we structure contracts to fit standard public-bid frameworks. Per-wash documentation includes date, unit number, crew lead, time on site, and chemistry used — the audit trail your procurement officer or state auditor needs. We carry general liability and workers' comp insurance, and we provide COI naming the municipality as additional insured on request. Wash wastewater is captured and disposed in line with Illinois EPA rules so chloride runoff doesn't enter your stormwater system. Reference checks available from existing customers.
Yes. We structure contracts to fit standard public-bid frameworks. Per-wash documentation includes date, unit number, crew lead, time on site, chemistry used, and disposal records — the audit trail municipal procurement officers and state auditors require. Reference checks from existing municipal customers are available on request.
Yes. We are fully insured (general liability and workers’ compensation) and provide COI naming the municipality as additional insured on request. Most of our municipal customers require this; we treat it as standard. Turnaround is typically one business day from request.
Weekly during active winter operations is the standard for fleet protection. Salt corrosion eats frame seams and electrical connections fast — the cost of skipping winter washes shows up as failed harnesses, accelerated rocker-panel rust, and shortened fleet life. Off-season visits drop to monthly or bi-monthly to keep the documentation cycle continuous.
Yes. Salt-laden wash runoff is captured at the source using on-truck reclaim equipment and disposed in compliance with Illinois EPA wastewater rules. Chloride does not enter your municipal stormwater system or any unlined ground. Documentation is part of the contract record.
Recurring weekly visits during winter, monthly off-season, with all documentation included in the per-wash record. Pricing is quoted by fleet size and visit frequency — we do not publish flat rates because municipal fleet mixes vary. Most of our municipal customers run 12-month contracts with a clean handoff at fiscal-year boundary.
Serving a 40-mile radius from Pekin, IL
Don't see your city? Call (309) 322-9599 — we likely cover your area.
We'll wash 1-2 of your dirtiest plow or salt trucks for free, with full runoff containment and documentation. See the process before procurement.
One demo is all it takes. We bring our hot water wash system to your yard, clean your worst units, and let the results — and the paper trail — speak for themselves. No cost. No commitment. No catch.
Cam Panek — Office Manager
Jaylon Walden — Service Manager
We respond within 2 hours during business days.