My company terminal regularly gets dusty trailers from a customer and has decided to just roll with it and start cleaning them. Asked me if I had an ideas since I used to do road driving but I'm doing Yard Jockey and local Shuttle for them now. I did used to carry a leaf blower for dust in a previous job.
So.... manager guy got the strongest battery power leaf blower in the store lol and that's what we have so far. I have to take the trailer to a spot to blow it and this costs me time from doing other things.
I'm wondering if it's possible to do this on the dock but somehow contain or capture the mess? I was thinking the Leaf Blower kicks it up and use a strong Shop Vac with a large hood on the end of the hose might be able to catch a lot of the dust.
Just wondered if anyone has seen a local place create an effective trailer clean out station or saw ideas I haven't thought of.
Making Trailer Cleanout Station
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by VIDEODROME, Aug 3, 2021.
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Your boss will probably end up having to hire a person for that task completely if the trailers are that dirty. Get a gas powered blower for him too, and a dumpster, you drop trailer, he/she blows it out, you spot trl at open dock door, repeat, maybe? When he is not busy, parking lot broom and put all the refuse, broken pallets, what have you in the dumpster. Otherwise I guess try your vac idea and tell us how that works okay?
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The leaf blower method always bugged me because guys would just blow them out onto the ground and drive away, leaving a pile of dirt, nails, splinters from broken pallets, etc.
I was at a Georgia Pacific plant once that had a pretty slick clean out station. It was basically a dummy dock that you backed up to, then they had a grated floor with a dumpster down below the “dock” that you swept everything into. That would work great with a blower as well. -
Look into leaf vacuum setups. That would work for dust but probably struggle with chunks of pallets and nails.
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Years ago I picked up a load of flour in Great Falls MT and my trailer wasn't clean enough for them. So I pull around back and they had 2 cleaning stations you backed the trailer up to. Basically a concrete loading dock with a dumpster on the other side you could just sweep the debris into. I have to admit, it was a great setup.
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That'll teach you to volunteer to do more work!
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Large construction shop vac just suck up the mess directly. If you set up a hood it’ll get all the fine dust but don’t count on it catching all of it.
Use em when refinishing hardwood floors/grinding off thinset -
I use a broom to sweep the big stuff into a garbage can and then use my leaf blower for the fine dust.
Nothing but a little dust ends up on the ground.tscottme, Kyle G., VIDEODROME and 1 other person Thank this. -
Sweep it and then use a billy goat gas powered vacuum ?
Or if the dust is an issue you could hose it out with water . -
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