CIPHERAUTO LAB
Fleet maintenance

A dirty van with your name on it is advertising too.

Scheduled interior and exterior maintenance for work vans, trucks and company cars across New Haven County, the Valley and central Connecticut. A named day, one invoice a month, and a photographed condition report on every vehicle so you know what state your fleet is actually in.

2+Vehicles at one site is enough to start
Net 15One monthly invoice, not a card per wash
COICertificate of insurance, you named as additional insured
Every visitPhotographed condition report per vehicle
Where we fit

This is not fleet washing, and it shouldn't be priced like it.

Worth being straight about, because the two get confused and the comparison does neither of us any favors.

Fleet washing
$20–25

Per unit, exterior only

A crew with a pressure rig and water reclamation, doing thirty trucks at a depot after hours. Ten minutes a vehicle. Nobody opens a door. It is a genuinely good service and if that is what you need, you should buy that instead of this — we will happily tell you so and point you at someone.

What we do
$28–76

Per vehicle, inside included

Hand work, one van, on your site. The exterior gets done properly and — the part almost nobody sells on a schedule — so does the cab. That is where your driver spends eight hours a day and where your customer sits down.

The gap is deliberate. Every fleet operator we can find sells exterior washing and treats interiors as an occasional extra. A trade van's interior is the part that gets genuinely bad, the part a pressure washer physically cannot reach, and the part your customers notice. It is also the work a one-van operation is actually better at.

Two contracts

Pick the one that matches the problem.

Contract A

Fleet Exterior

from $28 per vehicle, per visit
  • Two-bucket hand wash, top down
  • Wheels, tires and wheel wells
  • Door jambs and sills
  • All glass, streak-free
  • Spray protection, tire dressing
  • Condition photos, every vehicle
  • Nothing inside the cab
25–35 minutes per vehicle
Contract B · the one we'd recommend

Fleet Full

from $44 per vehicle, per visit
  • Everything in Fleet Exterior
  • Full vacuum — seats, floors, footwells
  • Every touch surface wiped and dressed
  • Cupholders, console, door pockets emptied
  • Interior glass and dash
  • Trash out, bins emptied
  • Condition photos, every vehicle
45–60 minutes per vehicle

Cargo areas, ladder racks, shampoo and extraction, headliners and heavy grease are quoted separately — they are real work and pretending otherwise is how a contract goes sour in month three.

Prices

Per vehicle, per visit. Published, like everything else here.

The discount is for vehicles at one site on one visit, not for how many the company owns. That is the honest version: what we save is the drive and the setup, not the labour, so that is what gets passed on.

Vehicles on siteWeeklyEvery 2 weeksMonthly

Sedans, company cars and small vans. Cargo vans and pickups +$10 per vehicle; box trucks and anything over 10,000 lb by quote. Minimum $180 per visit — a two-van weekly stop does not pay for the drive, so small fleets usually land on biweekly or monthly, and we will say so rather than sell you the wrong frequency.

The part you can't get elsewhere

A photographed condition report on every vehicle, every visit.

Your actual problem probably isn't dirty vans. It is not knowing what state your fleet is in — which one picked up a dent, whose bumper is hanging, which cab has been lived in for three weeks.

We are already stood at every vehicle with a phone in hand. So each visit you get a dated set of photos per vehicle, plus anything worth flagging: fresh damage, a tire that looks low, a warning light on the dash, a leak under a van. It costs us nothing and it is usually the reason people renew.

What a contract comes with

The boring things that actually decide it.

A named day"Second Tuesday, 7am" — not a window, not "sometime that week". You can plan around it and your drivers can be told once.
One invoice a monthNet 15, emailed, itemised by vehicle. No card on file, no deposit per wash, no chasing receipts for the bookkeeper.
Certificate of insuranceNaming your company as additional insured. Most sites will not let a contractor through the gate without it, and we have it ready.
A vehicle rosterYou send the list with plates. We track which got done and which did not, and it is on the invoice.
Out-of-hours if you need itEarly mornings, evenings and Saturdays. Most fleets would rather we came before the vans roll than pull one off a job.
Thirty days' notice, both waysNo twelve-month lock-in. If it stops being worth it, say so and it stops. A contract that traps you is a contract we would have to defend instead of earn.
Straight answers

What we won't take on.

One van and one person. Saying yes to the wrong contract means failing somebody, and it is cheaper for both of us to work that out now.

Depots of 25+ heavy trucks.

That is a pressure-rig job with a crew and water reclamation. We would be slower and dearer and you would be right to be annoyed.

Dealership lot prep at lot-prep prices.

Volume used-car prep runs $40–60 a car and is won on speed. It would eat every hour we have at a rate that makes it worse than the consumer work it displaces.

Sites with no water runoff route or no space.

We carry our own water and capture what we sensibly can, but a vehicle needs about 15 feet around it and somewhere for water to go that isn't a storm drain full of soap.

Biohazard, mould or infestation.

Different equipment, different insurance. We will tell you on sight and not charge you for the visit.

A vehicle that isn't there.

Not a refusal, just the rule: if a van is out on a job when we arrive, it rolls to the next visit at no charge. If more than half the roster is missing twice running, we will ring you and change the day rather than keep turning up to an empty lot.

Get a quote

Tell us what you run.

A real number back the same working day, and a site visit before anything is signed — we would rather look at the vans than guess at them.

Rough figure while you type
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Pick a size and a frequency and we'll show the published rate.

Goes straight to Malik. No mailing list, no card, no obligation. If a fleet contract isn't the right answer for you, you'll be told that instead.