School buses

**Tex Star Detail** · 08-31-2006, 10:34 PM

Ok, I want to hit up a big daycare around here. Think there is 4 locations here in town. I know for a fact, that one location, has 2 short buses, a van, and 1 or 2 regular size school buses. Maybe a tad shorter, but not much.

Has anyone done buses before?
I am looking to either just do a simple wash and interior clean (quick go through)
or a wash, interior, and 1 step polish/cleaner wax.....

I need to get more info on the quanity of buses and vans they have, but what would you charge for:

-Bus
-Short Bus
-Van

I was thinking maybe.....85/65/45 for just a simple wash/vac???? BTW, they are white

Any heads up would be appreciated.....

(posted this on another forum as well, and was told to up the prices to 100/70/50,which does sound right. Those would be for a wash and vac, to include tire dressing, windows, interior wipe down...)

**Shaun Carollo** · 08-31-2006, 11:16 PM

Posted by Superior Shine

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/sho...ght=school+bus

**theRIAA** · 08-31-2006, 11:16 PM

like a school bus or a luxury bus... i would charge way more if you were going to wax it... how do you wash the top of a bus... you think they would have a automated bus wash or something...

**Tex Star Detail** · 08-31-2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Shaun Carollo

Posted by Superior Shine

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/sho...ght=school+bus

Yep...I remember reading that whenhe did it....

Originally Posted by theRIAA

how do you wash the top of a bus... you think they would have a automated bus wash or something...

Ladder or scaffold and a long handled brush

**Dans Detailing** · 09-01-2006, 05:06 AM

I think your 100/70/50 sounds right on track.

**Jen@autogeek** · 09-01-2006, 08:07 AM

LOL I cannot picture my son`s bus driving up all pretty with dressed tires! lol

**tooklean** · 09-01-2006, 08:42 AM

Tex, About a year ago we had a year long contract cleaning the interior of buses for the local transit authority. they had 3 sizes of buses.

Large: 65.00 Per unit

medium: 55.00 per unit

Small 45.00 per unit

we had a crew of 3 we would knock out 6 buses per night 2 of each unit. The bus company supplied all of the Chemicals. The beauty was the were there about 4 hours. They used an automatic wash system to wash the exteriors.

**derek37** · 09-02-2006, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by tooklean

Tex, About a year ago we had a year long contract cleaning the interior of buses for the local transit authority. they had 3 sizes of buses.

Large: 65.00 Per unit

medium: 55.00 per unit

Small 45.00 per unit

we had a crew of 3 we would knock out 6 buses per night 2 of each unit. The bus company supplied all of the Chemicals. The beauty was the were there about 4 hours. They used an automatic wash system to wash the exteriors.

Do you still do them? Or did they go somewhere cheaper? I think your prices were fair. How often did you do this service?

**tooklean** · 09-03-2006, 02:13 PM

Derek, we would go 3 evenings per week. We no longer service the account the transit workers voted a union in and each job in the shop had to to unionized. ( no outside contractors). it sucked loosing that type of income.