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Perhaps you have heard they are planning to build an Intercontinental Highway system, which goes through Texas and starts in Mexico and will go all the way to Canada. This is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Canadian-American free trade agreement. It makes sense to have our economies working together rather than working apart and causing trade wars. It will be just like a many European Union only it will be a North American free trade union, which should help all three countries including our own.

Now then would it be a great place to put a truck wash on a gigantic highway Intercontinental tollway system? It seems when they build the giant Toll Way - Intercontinental Highway from Mexico to Canada thru Texas that someone might be able to build another truck wash on that road. That is to say if you can get in with the right group of folks and Texas kind of works that way any how.

How long until something like this is completed or until they break ground; probably 10 years out minimum, Although with the new DOT lady maybe sooner for ground breaking; hard to say? What kind of truck wash would you want to put in? Well it would have to be a very large facility to wash that number of trucks and it would be best if it was semi or fully automated and robotic. However we need to be careful with robotic truck wash equipment in the present period, because they’re not up to speed yet and do not perfectly watched the trucks; Perhaps in a few years.

For those who are in central Texas they might be reminded that the San Antonio fully automated robotic truck wash is still sitting vacant I believe, as it had some fully automated issues. Yes fully automated bothers me, truck drivers will not go for that really, well at least until these robotic truck wash his start doing a better job and I believe that technology is coming within the next few years and we shall see the first 100% robotic perfect truck wash capable units. Please consider this in 2006.

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

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With fuel prices at $3.00 per gallon for over the road truck diesel and the potential eventuality of a Showdown with Iran and a hard hitting 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season does it really make sense to start a Truck Wash in 2006? Is this a good time to invest in the truck wash business and what is the Independent Truck Wash Business Outlook for 2006?

Well one could say that diesel prices are a key factor in the consideration of whether or not this is the best year to start a truck wash business. It would in fact depend on your marketing strategy. With costs so high in the trucking sector, especially for Independent Truck Drivers and Smaller Trucking Companies who are generally the highest paying customers for services, one could say it is not the best year at all.

However with larger trucking companies and record-breaking quarters in profits due to being able to better pass these costs onto their customers one could say this is the best year to be in the truck washing business. After all the economy is at a peak and water is still cheap too and there are more trucks on the road than ever before as well of course.

Nevertheless the marketing strategy is to be considered as well and price points are a key for those larger companies trying to keep profits up and the Independents and smaller companies hanging by a thread trying to stay in business with their few lucrative routes. I hope you will consider all these factors and think on this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

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