Winter is hard on cleaning trucks, especially in very cold regions. All the added moisture in the air, along with corrosive ice melting agents on the roads add up to the potential for rust!
If this is an issue where you live and work, a great option for your cleaning business is a stainless steel cleaning unit from American Caddy Vac. Stainless steel costs more, but it’s a great remedy against rust. All those heavy use and exposure areas, like doors, bumpers, and all the parts of your cleaner that ride lower to the ground will hold up better in damp and corrosive conditions if they are made from stainless steel.
But stainless steel offers other advantages too. Some of the benefits of stainless are:
- the corrosion benefits we’ve already mentioned
- fire and heat resistence (stainless retains high strength in high heat conditions)
- strength to weight advantage (stainless construction adds incredible strength, leading to longer life in any conditions)
- impact resistence (stainless can take a beating and hold up just fine… that’s especially important in commercial and industrial applications)
- long term value (a stainless steel unit will most likely last longer than the truck it is built on!)
These units take a powder coat paint job beautifully, and will hold up under the most strenuous conditions. Many of our customers love this option.
Paul Welhouse and crew with their fleet of American Caddy Vacs
Durability is critical to our customers and it’s a refrain we hear often. Paul Welhouse, President and Owner of Well-House Air Duct Cleaning in Oneida, Wisconsin says, “They are a virtually maintenance-free truck in my opinion. They run and run and run and run. With age, of course, anything wears out, but the Caddy Vac they build, it doesn’t seem to wear out. You may get a little rust, (and now they’re making them out of stainless steel!) but it’s the chassis that wear out, or the engine on the truck may wear out or the breaks… but the Caddy Vacs that they build are really sound, durable pieces of equipment and I love them.” Paul just purchased a new stainless steel American Caddy Vac and expects it to hold up for years and years. “You know, bearings and parts like that, they build them with such heavy duty bearings and other parts that, just with regular maintenance, nothing wears out. In the last 22 plus years, I’ve only had one bearing go out with my American Caddy Vac trucks. In 5 years, my first truck (that was not an American Caddy Vac) had probably 10 bearings go out and it took a whole day to fix the bearing. And if you know what you’re doing you could probably change a bearing in an hour or two on the American Caddy Vac. They’re just built so well, they’re overbuilt.”
Check out some of the stainless steel units our customers have purchased at https://caddyvac.com/full-stainless-steel-units/. Or call the crew at American Caddy Vac to learn more about the benefits of stainless steel construction.
