Whats your top cleaning tip?

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just some cheap furniture polish, it’ll do the dash and the glass. 39p happy shopper.

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dont use dash shine mr sheen polish is best spray it on leave it 20mins buff it up job done

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Use Flash on just about everything dash, carpet,rubber mats, pedals and the MAN “cool box” all looks good. do it two or three times a week, but I do have a lot of time to spare.

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Always used to spray dash at the end of the day with Mr Sheen or Pledge then wipe it the next morning used to gleam with out being sticky

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Rich The Stag:
'…Whats your top cleaning tip…?

Making a big show (like a pantomime tart?) of emptying the old papers, binnacles, door pockets, etc, etc directly onto the yard at the start of shift under the Clerks/Management/TM’s window :smiley:

Edited to add: My 2nd tip only takes about thirty seconds with a hose - but three days to dry the cab out :smiley: :smiley:

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Mrs Teatime… :smiley:

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I just pay someone to clean my truck. I’m not that interested into details because the cleaner does a great job.

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Pledge furniture polish on the inside works well, baby wipes for most of anything else :smiley:

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DOLLY BLACK SHEEP:

PremiumTrucker:
“pink” from Chrome North West for everything inside
Wash and wax from Chrome North West for outside
“tango” from AutoSmart after a wash to keep it shiny and protect it

Can’t beat a clean motor :sunglasses:

I second that :smiley: “pink is the future” :wink:

3rd that

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1: Park lorry on Friday afternoon.
2: Let one of the other drivers do it on Saturday morning (I always decline a turn on the cleaning rota).
3: Jump in a clean lorry Monday morning.

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Since all fleets can get a bit minging, my place has got a ‘clean lorry’ project being looked at - so the sap clerk/manager in charge is inviting six of us at time into a pre-shift meeting for discussion and make progress, etc.

‘Great’, thinks me :smiley:

My recent group of six drivers consisted of one fellow ‘English-bloke’ and four Eastern Europeans - the latter who weren’t much interested & when pressed mumbled for ‘water and a cloth’ to be provided in each unit: Nowt else; job done :exclamation:

Methinks they weren’t ripping the pee so I pragmatically concluded ‘that’ll bring the fleet up all shiny, healthy and spick & span then’ (not).

Maybe they were otherwise focussed on more important stuff and that we should all be content with water-smeared grime being propagated with the one cloth? :unamused:

I suppose it demonstrates the diverse standards that ‘workers of jobs in Britain’ expect :frowning:

Or maybe it was EU workplace humour :question:

In reality, many drivers would honestly respond to the thread question that they ignore cleanliness or at best, ‘smear it around daily’ - but such individuals are those that wouldn’t be here on a specialist, employment based www thread to say so…

In the big scheme of things it’s only another bit of race-to-the-bottom niff-naff so I’ll crack-on cleaning my (always different) allocated unit with Wilko’s anti-bac spray applied via a daily-fresh J-cloth, wearing weekly laundered, cotton ‘warehouse’ gloves at the beginning of each shift :wink:

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old wives tip for the windows and mirrors

a damp soapy cloth wipe all over

then clean off with your old newspaper

not a streak in sight and nice clean shiny windows

works better than any window cleaning stuff

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Muckaway:
1: Park lorry on Friday afternoon.
2: Let one of the other drivers do it on Saturday morning (I always decline a turn on the cleaning rota).
3: Jump in a clean lorry Monday morning.

Thats the best idea, I always had the young lass from next door do mine , you spend enough time in the bloody thing without that crap of “my truck is shinier than yours”. Clean yes… OCD no. FFS concentrate on making money and life easier !

Rant over…Tin hat on awaiting incoming !!!

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Muckaway:
‘…Let one of the other drivers do it …’

I respect & get on brilliant with our domestic cleaners indoors - so I get the hump to fathom why employers can’t negotiate with them to do an equally top-job (ie., against much toilet adversity in the Gent’s) on the transport fleet: Surely they could even get away with paying them less than a driver :open_mouth:

How come we’re accepting being multi-tasked* by companies who manipulate us to be Mr Mopp as well :question:

I’d honourably consider doing it 9 till 4.30 (with an hour for lunch) for ale-money after retirement - but not have it jacked on top of leaping through hoops of OTT legislation, customer-focussed, profit-first & EU-nause, etc that already accompanies this lark :neutral_face:

*Not my first choice of language: Tony’s ‘Cool Britannia’ started it :wink:

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Let the missus do it :bulb:

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wigan:
old wives tip for the windows and mirrors

a damp soapy cloth wipe all over

then clean off with your old newspaper

not a streak in sight and nice clean shiny windows

works better than any window cleaning stuff

newspaper …cant beat bit , cleans screens and mirrors no problem :smiley:

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im back in the yard just after dinner every friday

20 mins just get everything back in its place, spruce up the cab and a dusting with air freshner

off into car home drop car off then pub lol

lorry nice n fresh on monday morn