City Requires Mobile Detailers to Capture Run Off! - Page 9

fergnation · 04-14-09, 08:27

Over reaching Relaited???

This looks and sounds familiar from somebody else in the Bay Area. Can you say Tea Party!!!

02zx9r · 04-15-09, 04:52

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Originally Posted by Relaited

Get the facts, I am not trying to sway you into my system.

-jim

I wish I were in Texas, at lest from a business point of view, it would be easy pickins to grow my business there. It is easy here, I can't imagine how easy it would be with this thinking!

-jim

DavidB · 04-15-09, 06:12

P-U... stinks in here. I'd better take out the trash!

Setec Astronomy · 04-15-09, 06:22

Phew...at least now we can talk about Eco-Friendly detailing in a productive manner! Thanks, David!

Bostonsfavson · 04-15-09, 06:27

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Originally Posted by DavidB

P-U... stinks in here. I'd better take out the trash!

You, sir, are a hero

02zx9r · 04-15-09, 07:37

I wanted to see what else he had to say!

shine · 04-16-09, 07:05

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Originally Posted by DavidB

P-U... stinks in here. I'd better take out the trash!

I can breathe now. I don't know if I could take any more eco $marta**ness runoff into the forum...

02zx9r · 04-16-09, 06:56

I dont mind that he is pushing the Eco-friendly stuff. I mean it is going to happen eventually. But the way he went about it was just annoying.

his way or no way was basically how I took it. Buy my product! Basically the way Dsoto and most others said it

Slickery · 04-16-09, 07:52

Man, Relaited if you just would have kept your tone down a little this could have been a good place for you. Oh well, live and learn. I still think the answer is low VOC and environmentally friendly product lines, and having collection points at the end of storm drains. Having a policy that makes people who wash their cars in their driveway criminals, is a joke and will not stop contamination from going into storm drains. It may stop some contamination from Automobiles, but that is nothing compared to pesticides, fertilizers, and other poisons that go into the water supply.

WCD · 04-16-09, 08:16

A fellow detailer competitor of mine--he buys my towels and we are friends- called the city's clean water program today to talk about getting a license in my city. She told him that if he does, they will BUY the boom and equipment for him through the program! Not a bad deal, but I was counting on more to be non-compliant! Bummer!
Another competitor listed as compliant was allowing all the runoff into the creek yesterday-- I was turning in paperwork for my refi and there they were right in the parking lot. On the plus side, after talking with my loan guy, he said, "Get here and I'll have the office staff come down. Do your talk and you can have our lot for business."

Off to more training this weekend with Prentice in San Diego- great hands on training for two full days with networking in the evening. I'll have pics on my site next week.

Weather is turning towards spring and it seems to be getting busier.

Work the business hard and come out on top as the economy improves!

Rob

Bostonsfavson · 04-18-09, 07:04

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Originally Posted by Slickery

Man, Relaited if you just would have kept your tone down a little this could have been a good place for you. Oh well, live and learn. I still think the answer is low VOC and environmentally friendly product lines, and having collection points at the end of storm drains. Having a policy that makes people who wash their cars in their driveway criminals, is a joke and will not stop contamination from going into storm drains. It may stop some contamination from Automobiles, but that is nothing compared to pesticides, fertilizers, and other poisons that go into the water supply.

Agreed, although I think the whole VOC thing is a slippery slope. The worst part about these washing bans is that while ostensibly they're in place for the sake of the environment, it sure seems like just another fine to impose so the municipality in question can squeeze people for more money. Now, that's just IMO--perhaps I'm just a pessimist. If these policies really are being implemented for the sake of the environment, then it's a case of good intentions gone awry.

karburn · 04-21-09, 06:44

Most of these so-called environmental ordinances are just another way of implementing a tax. Get ready for more of this at all levels of government, as the new administration is dead set on getting into your life and your business as much as they can. I'm all for conserving water and avoiding unecessary polution, but I do not need a governmental gun to my head to do so.