Truck Washing in the future will be fully robotic in order to save labor and currently at least one manufacturer has a bus wash machine that is 54 feet long and can wash a bus in approximately 9 minutes.
We were impressed with this concept and interested in its possible uses.
Currently over the road trucks are boxy in shape although in the future they will not be and thus there might be some more re-engineering needed at Belanger especially considering Luigi Colani's Futuristic Truck Designs which reduce coefficients of drag by 50% or more.
With body lines on that level the Belanger Bus Washing Unit would be challenged in it current configuration.
Another interesting concept was the Vader Brush Wash System which was set upon an industrial cart or rail with a vertical rotating brush, which was manufactured Canadian Company.
When using this unit we found we could adequately clean a tour bus in about 15 minutes.
While a full hand wash with soft bristle brushes took about 15-22 minutes depending on the dirtiness of the bus and type.
A semi-truck in about 18 minutes depending on the cab type.
In the future to wash the volume of trucks that need to be washed we will see many different strategies used and they most likely will not be a lot of hand washing, which is too labor intensive and the availability of labor not easy to attain and still keep the price point low to compete with machines that do washing.
The robotic machines will also have to be better at getting the trucks clean and will need to do it fully automatically or with extremely little labor.
This will require strategies such as optical flow sensors, sonar or electronic eyes (used in some high-tech robotic carwashes).
However in 10-years we will see many trucks coated with self-cleaning paints, that will not need washing very often, as the dirt will repel itself from the paint or be collected and the as soon as water hits it, run right off, similar to self-cleaning window coatings.
With the impending advent of carbon nano-tube construction painted surfaces can be hit with an energy beam and the dirt will be pulled off the surface through ionic attraction.
But also realize that by this time we will see very few fossil fuel motors that have sticky exhaust, so the intervals between washing will have been doubled or even tripled even if the truck, trailer or bus has special coatings or carbon nano-tube construction.
The Truck Washing Industry is not the only Trucking Industry sub-sector that will be hit by rapid changes due to technology, but it will be one that is significantly changed within the next 5-10 years in the future.
If you are considering getting into the truck washing industry you will need to study more information and learn about the future robotic soon to come into the industry.
We were impressed with this concept and interested in its possible uses.
Currently over the road trucks are boxy in shape although in the future they will not be and thus there might be some more re-engineering needed at Belanger especially considering Luigi Colani's Futuristic Truck Designs which reduce coefficients of drag by 50% or more.
With body lines on that level the Belanger Bus Washing Unit would be challenged in it current configuration.
Another interesting concept was the Vader Brush Wash System which was set upon an industrial cart or rail with a vertical rotating brush, which was manufactured Canadian Company.
When using this unit we found we could adequately clean a tour bus in about 15 minutes.
While a full hand wash with soft bristle brushes took about 15-22 minutes depending on the dirtiness of the bus and type.
A semi-truck in about 18 minutes depending on the cab type.
In the future to wash the volume of trucks that need to be washed we will see many different strategies used and they most likely will not be a lot of hand washing, which is too labor intensive and the availability of labor not easy to attain and still keep the price point low to compete with machines that do washing.
The robotic machines will also have to be better at getting the trucks clean and will need to do it fully automatically or with extremely little labor.
This will require strategies such as optical flow sensors, sonar or electronic eyes (used in some high-tech robotic carwashes).
However in 10-years we will see many trucks coated with self-cleaning paints, that will not need washing very often, as the dirt will repel itself from the paint or be collected and the as soon as water hits it, run right off, similar to self-cleaning window coatings.
With the impending advent of carbon nano-tube construction painted surfaces can be hit with an energy beam and the dirt will be pulled off the surface through ionic attraction.
But also realize that by this time we will see very few fossil fuel motors that have sticky exhaust, so the intervals between washing will have been doubled or even tripled even if the truck, trailer or bus has special coatings or carbon nano-tube construction.
The Truck Washing Industry is not the only Trucking Industry sub-sector that will be hit by rapid changes due to technology, but it will be one that is significantly changed within the next 5-10 years in the future.
If you are considering getting into the truck washing industry you will need to study more information and learn about the future robotic soon to come into the industry.
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