The title says it all! This is a 1.5-hour video available only to WSA Members. Includes a link to the Powerpoint and PDF versions of Meola’s seminar notes, as well.
2016 Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping winner announced. Videos out soon from WSA-sponsored NPE conferences. Link to what property managers might want to consider when they have cracks in a building sidewall. Link to article where WSA Members are interviewed about their experiences with NiteHawk LPG/gas-fueled sweepers.
Bruce Christianson founded North Dakota-based, Pro Sweep, Inc., in 2000. “I got started in the business due to being parked in a parking lot in January of 2000 when the lot was hit by a big gust of wind,” said Christianson. “When I saw all the trash blowing I wondered if anybody swept it. The next day I went to my local grocery store and asked if anybody swept. The next day I did some research, probably through WorldSweeper, found out some pricing info to go back and tell him and since then we’ve been growing and expanding.”
Information to help you fight back against invasive contracts presented by third party vendor companies. Read about what one WSA Member did when presented with one such contract by National Maintenance Services, a third party vendor company owned by someone who also is the long-time owner of a power sweeping company in the Northeast.
• Offers a link to “Six New Year’s Resolutions for Employers,” which offers some very sensible advice about how to interact with your employees to get more productivity and longevity from them.
• Preview link to story about the Maharaja’s Rolls Royce street sweepers, which shows, among other things, what can happen when employees pre-judge their potential clients.
• Link to how to make ‘wordles.’
• Safety info from John Meola, plus a link from him that shows ice coming off a vehicle and breaking the window of car behind.
• New safety info from Keep Trucking Safe and now posted on the WSA site.
This file contains a number of safety-oriented reminders, posters and even a brief training course on jobsite safety. Gleaned from information provided by the Keep Trucking Safe organization.
Stuart Smith virtually grew up in the parking lot sweeping business in his hometown of Newberry, SC, which is near Columbia, the state capitol. At the tender age of 10 he started helping out his father, who took over the sweeping business of a friend who died in the early 1970s. They had a Clark-brand push sweeper that collected debris in a cloth bag. The machine had to be trailered to the single account that came with his dad’s newfound company.
Stuart helped out in the mornings before school, which meant getting up before 5am. Their activities took about two hours to complete. Both his sister and his mother also went on the routes in order to get everything done as quickly as possible. Today, Smith’s son sometimes goes out on the job with his dad even though he’s only six years old. However, says Smith, he’s rarin’ to go and loves to run the backpack blower.
Best wishes for the New Year are included along with a reminder on the topic of three resolutions:
1. To discontinue signing contracts “with clauses that have the potential to make your company liable for occurrences on client properties that are not your responsibility and/or are not within your control. ”
2. To start getting your excise tax rebates on twin-engine sweeper fuel used if you are not doing so.
3. To remove any ‘toxic employees’ that might be on your current workforce.
Reported on East Side Industrial Service’s high-profile Christmas donation. Provided info on how and what to do in order to check your company’s ‘automatic’ listings online. Discussed why Ferrandino picked up some of Brickman’s Target accounts. Proposed we might start a shareable ‘Christmas card bank’ at the WSA website. Presented John Meola’s safety tips for December.
Link to an article designed to help counsel when a serious trauma situation occurs at your business. Info about some Target stores no longer being handled by Brickman. A link to an article that provides legal-oriented guidelines for business holiday parties. Link to a Detention Pond Maintenance Manual for homeowners’ association: the intent is to give you something to provide to any of your HOA clients with detention ponds. Info about ProntoForms so we can see if this might make a good WSA Member discount. Reminder that Sweeper/Paver Market is available at the WorldSweeper.com website a minimum of a week ahead of when anyone receives it by mail.
