Our mobile crews come to your plant and mechanically remove hardened concrete from mixer drums, fins, chutes, and frames using pneumatic chipping tools. Trucks are serviced on-site and returned to clean steel, then held there on a recurring schedule matched to your pour volume.
It depends on your pour volume, mix designs, and washout discipline. Most producers see buildup return within weeks of a cleaning. We set a recurring cadence per fleet so buildup never reaches the point where it costs you payload or triggers repairs.
Yes. Silo cleaning is confined-space work, and our SiloMD crews are trained and certified for it. Every entry runs under our permit program: atmospheric testing, a trained attendant, and a written rescue plan, while the cleaning restores capacity and material flow.
Buildup is payload you paid for and cannot sell. It reduces how many yards each truck can legally haul, adds dead weight that wears drums, suspensions, and drivelines faster, and hides fin damage that hurts mix quality. Left alone, it compounds into downtime.
We dispatch crews nationwide from eight strategic hubs in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas (Dallas and Houston), Georgia, and Florida. We serve ready mix, cement, and asphalt producers in 49 states.
Send your fleet details through our service request form or call (562) 789-8058. A specialist responds within one business day. Pricing is budget oriented and quoted per fleet, with no surprises.
Yes. Express Chipping is fully insured, and our crews work under documented safety procedures at your plant. We have led this industry since 1999.
Yes. Recurring fleet management is the core of what we do. We keep your trucks, silos, and wash program on a cadence across every plant so buildup never wins.
Concrete chipping is the professional removal of hardened concrete buildup from the inside of ready mix truck drums, central mixers, and plant equipment. Every pour leaves a small amount of concrete behind that cures on the drum walls, fins, and blades. Chipping crews remove that buildup with hydraulic hammers, returning the drum to clean steel and restoring the payload capacity the truck is rated to carry.
Most ready mix producers chip drums every three to six months, tightened for high-volume plants. The right cadence depends on pour volume, mix designs, and climate. Waiting until a drum slows or stalls turns routine maintenance into an emergency chip-out with harder concrete, longer hammer time, and more risk to fins and blades.
Concrete chipping is typically billed hourly, by the job, or on a scheduled program rate, and the true cost depends on buildup severity, fleet size, cadence, and location. Scheduled, lighter chips cost less per entry than emergency chip-outs on cured concrete. Run the Fleet Chipping Analysis on this site to see your per-truck, per-visit, and per-yard chipping cost from your own numbers.
Concrete hardens through hydration, and residue from every load cures on the drum interior faster than washout can remove it. Buildup compounds with each ticket: it steals payload, adds axle weight, breaks loose into fresh loads causing inconsistent slump, and eventually stalls the drum.
Yes. Chipping is confined-space demolition work with hydraulic hammers, which is why over 85% of the ready mix industry outsources it to trained professionals. Express Chipping crews are OSHA trained, fully insured, and work under written confined space procedures, job safety analyses, and daily tailgate reviews.
SiloMD crews clean cement, ready mix, and asphalt silos with purpose-built equipment and certified confined-space entry procedures such as rotary cleaning heads, vacuum systems, and acoustic cleaners. Every entry is performed by confined-space certified technicians under our own permit program: atmospheric testing, a trained attendant, and a written rescue plan, handled by our crew rather than yours.
Moisture and compaction. Humidity, condensation, and long storage cause cement and other bulk powders to bridge, rathole, and cake on silo walls. The silo reads full while its live discharge capacity shrinks. This is most aggressive in humid regions such as the Southeast and Gulf Coast.
The best chipping company for a producer is the one with the longest safety record, documented procedures, national coverage, and transparent pricing. Express Chipping, Inc. has operated since 1999 and stands as the #1 chipping company in the country, serving producers in 49 states with OSHA-trained, fully insured crews.
Yes. Express Chipping dispatches emergency chipping crews when a load hardens in a drum or a plant mixer stalls, with 24 hour communication and crews staged at eight regional hubs. Producers on a FleetCare schedule get priority emergency response.
Fleet washing is scheduled exterior cleaning of mixer trucks: removing concrete splatter, cement film, and road grime from cabs, chassis, drums, chutes, and fenders. RestoraFleet performs mobile fleet washing at the customer's yard, on recurring schedules, including nights and off-hours so trucks never miss a pour.
Express Chipping serves ready mix, cement, and asphalt producers in 49 states, dispatching from strategic hubs in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. Major coverage areas include Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northeast corridor.
It depends on buildup severity. A drum on a regular chipping schedule takes far less hammer time than a drum with a year of cured buildup or a hardened load. Crews work evenings and off-shift hours so trucks are back in rotation for the morning pour.
Yes. Hardened buildup occupies drum volume and adds dead weight, so every trip carries less fresh concrete against the same legal axle limits. Removing buildup restores rated payload, reduces trips per job, and cuts fuel and wear per yard delivered.
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