And for a dollar more, the washers will check the vehicle's motor oil, brake fluid, coolant and power steering fluid. Brewer, the more talkative of the two, can't stand still as he shows off the trailer attached to the truck both men hope will spawn a thriving business with a fleet of similarly equipped vehicles. There have been setbacks, though. It cost twice that amount. The trailer comes equipped with a 320-gallon tank that holds the water used to wash the vehicles.
Brewer points toward the trailer's double axles.
O'Toole takes over, explaining how much pressure three gallons of shifting water can put on the axles. There's also a smaller, 90-gallon tank on the trailer that holds any water reclaimed after the vehicles are washed. Brewer pulls a long, yellow vinyl, water-filled tube from the bed of his truck. We lay these around the vehicles we're washing, then when the water pools up we can reclaim it with a sump pump, and properly dispose of it later. The trailer also has two large tanks that de-ionize the water they use to wash the cars.