This year, my company started a new initiative — a clean truck competition — that has since then evolved into so much more.
It started with a simple idea: how to get everybody involved in the process of us having cleaner trucks. We had tried a few things before — scheduling time in the calendar once every two weeks to clean vans, simply reminding guys to clean it, or pointing out when someone really had a dirty van. Only the calendar idea worked and only for a short period of time, because it is always a battle over whether the guys should do the cleaning on their time or on the company time, in the morning or after hours.