If you own a mobile car washing or truck washing company and are considering your sales goals for the year you may wish to check into rental agencies as potential new clientele. Why you ask? Well because rental agencies do pay their bills on time and they have unending amounts of things, which need cleaning all the time.
To find potential customers, get a clip board and then go to the phone book and look up car rental agencies and truck rentals and start making a list and then go online to those companies websites and do a little historical research before going in to make the sale. It helps to know the history of the company before attempting to get them as a client. Lets take an example such as doing business with Budget Rent-a-Car or Rent-a-Truck. You see, Budget Group Inc. is a huge rental company with revenues in 2000 of nearly 2.5 billion. Budget Group is part of Ryder TRS.
They work in about 120 countries and have about 3200 rental locations. Budget was formed in 1958. Ryder has been renting trucks since 1942 and now has over 3300 locations of truck rentals. They have two-way and one-way rentals like U-Haul. Budget Rent-A-Car was acquired by Ford in 1997 and in 1998 Budget bought the rental fleet of Ryder TRS. Different from Ryder Leasing, but still connected with multi-use locations and synergy driven businesses.
Budget has 500 franchised offices, which are owned and operated by 200 independent franchisees. Budgets current president was also once a franchisee for Budgets Truck Rental Business. Budget Car Sales Division are also franchised. Budget dealers sell fleet vehicles new and used, leases, special purchase vehicles and their former rental cars. Some Budget lots are huge but most are around 60-100 vehicles, but they can order anything you want.
To find the nearest truck rental yard go to the phone book or hit their web site at: http://www.budgettrucklocator.com
To find the nearest sales and/or rental offices go to:
http://www.budgetrentacar.com
https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/freqrenters/index.html
We recommend washing trucks for ten dollars each on site. Charge $12.00 if you travel to a customers site to wash with a minimum of three trucks. For car sales lot cars charge $1.25 for lot washing and $65.00 for detailing of used cars. For car rental offices charge $5.00-$6.00 for wash and vacuum, vans and pickups $7.00; small scratch removals or over spray removal requiring clay magic, charge $45.00; as you can see there is quite a bit of business to be had for a mobile car washing or fleet truck washing company if you will focus on this niche in 2006.
Lance Winslow
