| If you considering starting a mobile detail business in | | | | you are a hard core worker. Personally, I do not enjoy |
| Pennsylvania then you really need to consider how | | | | working in the very cold winters, but I am spoiled out |
| you are going to make money in the winter time. Now | | | | here living in CA. |
| mind you, it is possible, but it's a lot tougher in the winter | | | | There are many strategies you can use to stay |
| than detailing cars on the go in shorts and a T-shirt in | | | | business in the winter, but some days it will be just too |
| the summer time. | | | | outrageous to work at all or even think about it. Stay |
| Now let's take the Pittsburg area as an example, it | | | | home. Remember also that fleet business is generally |
| gets rather chilly there in the Winter and it is often | | | | rain or shine, not always but usually. Many companies |
| below freezing, so it's pretty hard to detail cars outside | | | | park their vehicles indoors too and there are parking |
| when the water you are using to wash the car (the | | | | structures as well, you can set up in one of those. |
| first step in auto detailing) is freezing. Sure there are | | | | Due to the present economic condition, Auto Dealers |
| already successful mobile car washes and auto | | | | are kind of a NO-GO right now, as they are not selling |
| detailers in Pittsburgh, in fact, one of the top "auto | | | | much because buyers cannot get loans perhaps this is |
| detailer" trailer sales guys is there; Nick Vacco. | | | | why GMAC has also petitioned TARP monies to get |
| Yes, I agree there is a lot of business in Pittsburg, and | | | | them through these tough times. Thus, the car |
| a bit of competition too, I might add. Our company has | | | | dealerships are really late on paying their bills, so I |
| been quite successful in colder climates, in places like | | | | wouldn't go there. Not in the first 6-months of 2009 |
| Montana, and there is still business to do in the Winter | | | | anyway, maybe Spring might see things better, we will |
| time. Especially wholesale auto detailing. No, it's not as | | | | see? Think on this. |
| fun to work in that kind of weather but it is doable if | | | | |