Tips/tricks/life-hacks for washing & waxing a big truck?

[Martinjmpr]

I did that routine for years. What a PITA, especially on a big truck. I watch for detailing specials now. Or, when I take the truck in for service and the dealer screws something up, I bitch enough til they usually offer up a discount of one sort or another. Then I ask for a detailing and they almost always jump on that.

Even when I have to pay for detailing it's probably no more than buying all that cleaning crap year after year.

I'm very much leaning towards this.

I used to roll my eyes at people who paid someone else to do mundane but relatively simple tasks like changing oil or washing and waxing a car, but as I get older I find that I value my TIME more and more and the prospect of having to dedicate most of a Saturday or Sunday to washing and waxing appeals to me less and less.

If it's a nice Saturday or Sunday I'd rather spend time with the family or go on a motorcycle ride than wash and wax my truck.

Ditto with oil changes on a car, which I like to think of as "10 minutes of prep and 5 minutes of work - followed by an hour of cleanup."

[Bailey Guns]

I'm very much leaning towards this.

I used to roll my eyes at people who paid someone else to do mundane but relatively simple tasks like changing oil or washing and waxing a car, but as I get older I find that I value my TIME more and more and the prospect of having to dedicate most of a Saturday or Sunday to washing and waxing appeals to me less and less.

If it's a nice Saturday or Sunday I'd rather spend time with the family or go on a motorcycle ride than wash and wax my truck.

Ditto with oil changes on a car, which I like to think of as "10 minutes of prep and 5 minutes of work - followed by an hour of cleanup."

Bingo.

I recently had a drain pipe separate at a joint under my house. Could I have fixed it? Of course...simple matter of cleaning/drying the joint, applying some adhesive and pushing the pipe back together. The crawling under the house, thru the crawl space, in the mud, climbing over pipes and other obstacles just didn't appeal to me. Called a plumbing company, 2 hours later nice young man shows up, crawls under house, gets coated with mud and spider webs, fixes joint, comes out extremely muddy, filthy and stinky and hands me a bill for $100. 5 mins to actually fix the joint, 25 mins to get in/out, 10 mins to get somewhat clean with the hose. Plus lotsa laundry at home.

Money well spent for that kinda work these days. A few years ago...yeah, I'da done it myself. Not so much any more. Same thing with car maintenance. I'll do the routine wash/vacuum but for anything more than that someone else makes a buck.