Car wash maintenance is inevitable. And perhaps it feels easier to wait and see what needs fixing – you want your focus on your customers...

Shawn Achor is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. After 12 years at Harvard University,...

Brent Wignall’s entry into the car wash industry is like that of many others: he recognized an opportunity.

Wignall had recently returned...

The car wash industry met Joe in 1993 in his home town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Twenty-five years later, Joe finds himself as one of the top...

Champ Savage is a marketing expert. It says so right on his business card. He has traveled the world bringing ideas to business owners of...

In the growing digital economy, businesses across a wide range of industries are exploring uses forblockchain technology that go well...

We occasionally provide excerpts from The Great American Car Wash Story. Former ICA Executive Director Gus Trantham and veteran commercial...

I’m a lucky guy.

Not in a “win the lottery” or even in a “win at the tables in Vegas” kind of way. More like an “I get to witness some...

Sometimes the knowledge you acquire from your time in the car wash industry comes in handy in wildly unexpected ways.

For example, toilets.

In a recent telephone call, a friend was very excited to tell me he was taking delivery of a new car from a local dealership under the...