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Washing trucks on a customer's property eliminates the need to set up wash bays or run them through facilities while on the road. Photos: Fleet Clean USA 

Cleanliness yields a positive image for truck operators, and regular vehicle washing protects against the ravages of corrosion. Those are among the reasons truck washing in the United States has become a $12 billion industry.

That's a number cited by Fleet Clean USA, a relative newcomer to the mobile washing business but one that's growing fast – 40% yearly on average since its start eight years ago, and 50% since this time last year.

The company says it currently services more than 1,000 businesses in 18 states, with 22 independently owned franchised locations and six corporate operations. It has no stationary wash facilities, unless you figure that its service trucks must stop for crews to begin working on customers' trucks.

“We save our customers a lot of money over having to do it in-house or taking it to a wash bay,” says the company's founder and CEO, Scott Marr. Fleet Clean's trucks go to customer sites, eliminating the need to take vehicles elsewhere or run them through facilities while on the road.

He got into the industry in 2009, the result of experience doing pressure--washing of buildings and such while in high school. After graduating he didn't attend college, but became involved in establishing a new bank in the Atlanta area.

While there, he continued to run a washing business on the side and recalls, “A customer had a fleet of trucks and I offered to wash them.” That led to the realization that he made more money washing trucks than working at the bank. In 2014, he began the franchising program, which accounts for most of the growth.

Marr is now 27 and riding a self-generated wave of wash ...Read the rest of this story