Fleet washing in Halifax

Mobile fleet washing for Halifax yards

O'Brien's Faster Blaster washes trucks, trailers and work vehicles at Halifax yards and job sites. We are a family owned mobile wash, in business since 1997, and our commercial work covers all of Nova Scotia, so the Halifax side of the harbour is well within range. We carry our own water, we carry insurance and WCB coverage, and we schedule around your trucks instead of the other way round.

Where Halifax fleets park

Most commercial trucks on the Halifax side live in a handful of places. Bayers Lake Business Park, which the city calls the largest concentration of retail space in Atlantic Canada, has Ragged Lake right beside it, and between them delivery units and box trucks are in and out all day. The container terminals keep a steady stream of highway tractors and chassis moving through the South End and Fairview. Aerotech, out by the airport, has its own mix of yards. And plenty of Halifax fleets are just a few service vans parked behind a shop on a side street.

It makes no difference to us which of those you are. If the trucks can sit still for a while and we can get our truck near them, we can wash them where they are.

Why not just send the trucks to a wash bay?

Because in Halifax the trip is the expensive part. A truck heading to a bay is a driver on the clock, sitting in traffic on the 102, then sitting in line, then driving back. Multiply that by every unit in the yard and the wash itself becomes the cheap bit of the afternoon.

A mobile wash takes the trip out completely. The trucks stay parked, the drivers keep working or go home, and the fleet is washed in one visit. For a yard with more than a couple of units, that is usually the whole argument.

Port, delivery and service fleets

Different Halifax fleets get dirty in different ways. Highway tractors running to and from the port carry road film, diesel soot and, all winter, salt from every highway in the province. Delivery trucks working the peninsula collect city grime and brake dust and then park in front of customers all day. Service vans and pickups bring home whatever the job site hands them.

We wash each one for what it is. Lettering and wraps get careful pressure. Frame rails and wheel wells on the highway units get the attention, because that is where salt sits and does its damage.

Getting across the harbour is our problem

We are based on the Dartmouth side, so we cross the harbour to reach Halifax yards. Trucks over 3,200 kg are not allowed on the Macdonald Bridge and have to use the MacKay, which is exactly the kind of detail that eats a driver's afternoon when the truck goes to the wash. When the wash comes to you, the crossing is ours to plan around, not yours.

Halifax fleet washing prices

We price fleet work on the job: the number of units, their size, how dirty they are and how often you want them done. Send us the count, the types and where the yard is, and we will give you a straight number. For everything else about how we wash trucks, see our main fleet washing in Nova Scotia page. If the building needs doing too, there is building exterior washing.