Mobile Fleet Detailing
On-site detailing for vans, trucks and company cars, on a schedule that works around your operations — so the fleet stays presentable without anyone in your team managing it.
A fleet is a presentation problem.
Every vehicle carrying your name is doing brand work whether you planned it or not. The problem is rarely one dirty van — it is the inconsistency, where three look cared for and the fourth undoes them. A schedule fixes the inconsistency, which is the part customers actually notice.
Built around your operations.
Vehicles earn during the day, so the work happens when they are not needed: overnight, at weekends, or in rotation so only a few are ever unavailable at once. The schedule is designed against how your fleet actually runs.
One specification, written down.
Recurring work only stays consistent if the specification is agreed rather than assumed. What is included on each visit is set at the start, so every vehicle gets the same treatment regardless of who is on site that day.
Wrapped vehicles are not painted vehicles.
A wrap is a film with edges, and edges lift if they are washed like paint — too much pressure, too close, or hot water held in one place. On a liveried fleet that is not a cosmetic problem, it is a re-wrap bill and a vehicle off the road while it happens. Wrapped and decalled vehicles get appropriate products and technique, which is one of the main reasons a fleet is worth handing to someone who does it repeatedly rather than to whoever is free.
Four moments worth booking fleet detailing for.
The work is the same either way — these are the times it makes the most difference.
The livery has stopped being legible
Vinyl dulls and road film sits on it, and a wrap you paid for as advertising becomes a grey van with something written on it. That is a spend depreciating.
Get the livery back →Your vehicles arrive before your people do
On a customer's driveway the vehicle is the first thing anyone sees, and it is read as a statement about standards. Nobody scores it consciously. Everybody notices it.
Book a fleet visit →Vehicles change hands between drivers
In an operation with turnover, cab condition is set by whoever cared least and it ratchets down. A scheduled rotation resets that floor without anyone having a conversation.
Set up a rotation →The whole fleet has just come through winter
Brine does the same to thirty vehicles as to one, except nobody owns the problem on any single unit. One pass in early spring, scheduled as a single visit.
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Whoever is free is not the same as whoever does it repeatedly.
Fleet cleaning handed to whichever hands are available produces a different standard every time, and the standard drifts downward because nobody owns it. An agreed specification applied on a cycle produces the same vehicle every visit, which is the only version of this that a customer or a driver actually notices. The specification is set once, at the start, and then applied.
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Wrapped vehicles need different technique
A wrap is a film with edges, and edges lift when they are washed like paint — too much pressure, too close, or hot water held in one place. On a liveried fleet that is not a cosmetic problem, it is a re-wrap bill and a vehicle off the road while it happens.
The parts that decide the result.
On your site, in rotation.
Depot, yard, or wherever the vehicles sit overnight. Rotating through the fleet means the operation never loses more than a small number of vehicles at any one time, and the cycle repeats without anyone having to organise it.
Before you book.
How many vehicles do we need to have?
There is no fixed minimum. What matters is whether a recurring schedule makes sense for you — if it is one vehicle, the individual services are the better fit.
Can you work outside business hours?
Yes. Overnight and weekend work is normal for fleets, because that is when the vehicles are not earning.
Will our wraps and decals be damaged?
Not if they are washed correctly. Livery needs appropriate products and pressure — aggressive washing is what lifts decal edges, so wrapped vehicles are handled accordingly.
Do the vehicles have to leave our yard?
No. Everything is done on site, which is the point of a mobile fleet service.
Can different vehicles get different specifications?
Yes. Cars, vans and trucks in the same fleet often need different treatment and different frequencies, and the schedule can reflect that.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the fleet size, vehicle types, specification and frequency. The exact arrangement is agreed with you rather than quoted from a table.
How often should a fleet be done?
It depends far more on what the vehicles do than on how many there are. Vehicles that visit customer sites daily are doing brand work every day and justify a tighter cycle; vehicles that move stock between depots do not. Most operations settle on a frequency after the first couple of cycles, once they can see the difference between visits.
What happens if a vehicle is out on a scheduled day?
It moves to the next visit rather than being skipped for the cycle. The point of a rotation is that no vehicle quietly falls out of it, which is what happens when fleet cleaning is handled ad hoc by whoever is free.
What every mobile fleet detailing includes.
- Agreed specificationWhat each visit covers, set at the start and applied consistently.
- Exterior hand washEvery vehicle washed by hand, top down, wheels separately.
- Livery careWraps and decals cleaned so graphics stay legible rather than dulled.
- Cab and cabin interiorsInteriors cleaned to the agreed level on the agreed cycle.
- GlassInterior and exterior glass cleaned on every visit.
- Rotation schedulingVehicles cycled so the operation keeps running throughout.
- On-site workingEverything done at your premises — no vehicle leaves the yard.
- Consistent reportingYou know which vehicles were done and when.
What mobile fleet detailing actually looks like.
On-site detailing for vans, trucks and company cars, on a schedule that works around your operations — so the fleet stays presentable without anyone in your team managing it.
Driver habits decide the interior
No cleaning schedule survives a cab used as a bin. A short, clear expectation set with drivers does more for interior condition between visits than increasing the frequency.
What actually happens on the day.
The appointment follows the same order every time, because the order is what makes the result last.
How many vehicles, what types, where they sit, when they are actually available. The schedule is built from that rather than from a standard package.
Exactly what each visit includes for each vehicle type, written down so it does not drift between visits.
Vehicles are cycled so only a manageable number are unavailable at once, at times that suit your operation.
- Run it, and keep it consistentThe cycle repeats without your team managing it, to the same specification every time.
What mobile fleet detailing fixes — and what it doesn't.
- What this isRecurring, scheduled detailing across multiple vehicles at your site, to one agreed standard.
- What this is notA one-off deep clean of a single vehicle — for that, book the individual service that fits, such as truck detailing or exterior detailing.
- Worth knowingWrapped and liveried vehicles need appropriate products and pressure. Aggressive washing lifts decal edges, so livery is treated accordingly rather than washed like paint.
Every appointment is carried out by Express Mobile Detailing's own trained technicians — not subcontracted — and every mobile visit is fully insured. The company has been detailing vehicles for over ten years and now covers 97 cities across British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia.Page reviewed 6 August 2026
How to keep it.
None of this is a warranty — it is just what actually makes the result last, from having watched what undoes it.
- Driver habits decide the interiorNo cleaning schedule survives a cab used as a bin. A short, clear expectation set with drivers does more for interior condition between visits than increasing the frequency.
- Report wrap damage earlyA lifting decal edge caught at one visit is a small repair. Left for three months of highway air it takes the graphic with it.
- Keep the cycle rather than reactingThe value of a schedule is consistency. Fleets that pause it when things get busy end up back at the inconsistency the schedule was bought to fix.
- Flag vehicles that need moreSome vehicles in every fleet work harder than the rest. Telling us which ones lets the specification differ where it matters instead of averaging everything.
Build your price.
Pick your service, city and vehicle. The exact total is shown before anything is confirmed.
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Useful reading, not written by us
- Transport Canada — road transportationFederal guidance covering vehicle standards and safe road use in Canada.
- Canadian Automobile AssociationIndependent Canadian consumer guidance on vehicle care and ownership.
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