Installation
An economic and environmentally friendly solution, the DriveOn V-Tech Dry Wheel Wash unit is also very quick and easy to install.
How it Cleans
To comply with UK laws, vehicles exiting quarries, construction sites, waste and recycling plants and other such facilities need their wheels cleaned to prevent them spreading contaminants on local roads in the area.
How to look after it
Along with providing an economical and eco-friendly option for wheel cleaning, the DriveOn V-Tech unit is extremely robust and easy to maintain.
What is it?
The DriveOn V-Tech Dry Wheel Wash unit is a highly effective, highly economic system for removing mud and debris from the tyres, wheels and undersides of vehicles exiting construction, quarry, landfill and recycling sites.
Using vibration, tyre flexing and centrifugal force the patented V-Tech Bar system provides efficient waterless wheel cleaning. Without the need for water or power our system offers many environmental, economic and practical benefits.
Why Should You Use a Waterless/Dry Wheel Wash?
There’s a clause in every planning acceptance document stating that the contractor has to take steps to prevent mud leaving the site and contaminating the highway. And you have choices, but why a waterless, or dry wheel wash? Why specifically Ecogreen’s waterless wheel wash? We believe our system to be the most effective and environmentally responsible system for the following reasons.
It features slimmer, more widely spaced bars so has around 60% less surface area than a conventional dry raised grid system. So it creates more vibration and tyre flex, much more mud is removed and there is next-to-no surface for it to sit on – it falls through into the void below.
It needs no water, so is ideal for remote sites where water is difficult to source, or would cost money to source. And despite our weather, parts of the UK are some of the driest areas of Northern Europe. Water is an expensive, precious, increasingly unreliable resource. Because our system uses no water it can’t dry out, freeze up, or overflow, and it can’t contaminate water courses or simply make more mud.
It needs no power, so there is no cost to buy fuel or hire generators and pumps, it can’t break down and it creates absolutely zero emissions.
It needs no supervision, so your site staff can be more productive on other more important tasks.
Finally it can make a huge difference to the amount of road sweeper hire your site needs, thus saving costs and also of course further reducing the carbon footprint of your project.
Benefits of using EcoGreen Plant Hire's waterless wheel cleaning system
Environmental
No water waste
No fuel waste
No water course contamination
No freezing, or icing of surfaces
No emissions
No vehicles idling, waiting
Reduced highway contamination
Reduced road sweeper hire
So, again, reduced emissions
Economic
No water cost
No fuel cost
No site down time
No pump to hire
No generator to hire
No bowser to hire
No bund to hire
No lance to hire
No operator to pay
No disposal charges
Practical
No supervision needed
No sump to install
No breakdowns
Easy to clean
Easy to move as necessary
Next to no maintenance
Environmental
Economic
Practical
No water waste
No water cost
No supervision needed
No fuel waste
No fuel cost
No sump to install
No water course contamination
No site down time
No breakdowns
No freezing, or icing of surfaces
No pump to hire
Easy to clean
No emissions
No generator to hire
Easy to move as necessary
No vehicles idling, waiting
No bowser to hire
Next to no maintenance
Reduced highway contamination
No bund to hire
Reduced road sweeper hire
No lance to hire
So, again, reduced emissions
No operator to pay
No disposal charges
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Testimonials
We have been using the wheel cleaner for 2 months. Although the first thought was, “is it going to work?” it has been a great asset to this site. We were paying a road sweeper 10 hours a day at £35.00 per hour and now I get a road sweeper for 2 days a week for 2 hours plus travel so we have saved in the region of £1300 per week on our forecast.
I have worked in the quarrying industry for 37 years, 5 of which have been at Duntilland. I was forced to seek an alternative wheel wash when ours broke and repair was going to cost £13K. By surfing the internet I came across this alternative that required no water pumping or additional flocculent costs. It has been very successful and only needs cleaning quarterly using a telehandler.
Further to our using your dry wheel wash on site in Ashford I would just like to congratulate yourselves on providing a very useful item of plant, the manner in which it is delivered and the ease involved in actually putting it into use is fantastic, would have no hesitation in contacting you in the future…
We hired a DriveOn V-Tech during the groundwork stage of a new a new care home project just off Esher town centre. As we had to exit the site directly on to the main road, it was vital that we kept the road free from mud and debris. The DriveOn unit worked very effectively and we believe that we also made savings, as we never had to hire a road sweeper and there was no water disposal costs.
I estimate that the DriveOn V-Tech system has enabled us to reduce the need for road sweepers by around 70 – 80% on this project. Thank you once again.
We were very happy with the performance of the DriveOn Vtech waterless wheel cleaner. It’s a simple idea but very effective and it’s allowed us to reduce our road sweeper hire costs considerably. And, as our site developed we were able to reposition the unit easily and quickly – within 20 minutes.
The (waterless) wheel wash system was an excellent solution to an ongoing problem of site vehicles leaving debris on our site and roads that were in use. After complaints by local residents we installed the dry wheel clean units and found them to drastically reduce muck and debris being transferred to the public highway. I will definitely be looking to use these again on future projects .
It’s done a cracking job, I’ll be recommending its use again.
We used Ecogreen’s waterless wheel cleaning system on our Evesham project, and to start weren’t convinced it would do the job. But it worked much better than we expected and really helped us cut down on sweepers, so it’s saved us a lot of money and kept our neighbours off our backs. It was one of the best things we did at Evesham.