| In the truck wash industry there are issues with | | | | problem with labor. Even in areas where there is labor |
| water shortages throughout the nation and in many | | | | available many of the young man who would normally |
| regions wells have run dry and in some other regions | | | | work at the truck wash have a drug problem with |
| they are on level 3 droughts. Generally in level 3 | | | | crystal meth. |
| droughts they shut down the car washes and that | | | | Robotic truck washing systems do not seem to be |
| means the truck washes to. This is a little | | | | able to clean the vehicle properly and only do about |
| disconcerting to trucking companies who know that | | | | 90% of the job even though they cost about |
| dirty trucks will get pulled over at the scales and | | | | $200,000 for a modern robotic tunnel roll-over for |
| inspection stations more often. | | | | truck wash system. It therefore makes sense that |
| Trucking companies are also under the gun because | | | | more research and development be done on |
| they cannot find the labor to wash all their trucks. | | | | Ion-Frequency de-bonding and Isolation, perhaps |
| Needless to say if they could find a labor to wash | | | | through the use of sound waves. If the dirt no longer |
| the trucks they would need that person as a truck | | | | attaches to the truck and falls to the ground and air |
| driver because there is a severe shortage in the | | | | blowers could be used to blow off the dust along |
| number of truck drivers in the United States right | | | | with a quick de-ionized water rinse. This would be a |
| now and it is getting worse. Trucking companies are | | | | good concept for Truck Wash Robotics. Please |
| not the only ones with a labor problem in the trucking | | | | consider this in 2006. |
| industry; the truck washes also have a severe | | | | |