In 2002, after former employer Interstate Sweeping closed their doors, Beth Krueger used her 20+ years of experience in the street sweeping industry and began putting together a list of clients broad enough to cover loan payments on her own street sweeper. Today, her company, Allstate Sweeping, is one of Colorado’s more well-known minority contractors, having been certified as a woman-owned business. Allstate Sweeping’s clients include RTD, one of Colorado’s public mass transit organizations, as well as the state’s Department of Transportation. Allstate Sweeping prides itself on its quality of work and its ability to pay their employees prevailing wage on more than 90% of their routes.
This audio interview was conducted in 2014 by Ron Barnett, president of Florida-based Blown Away, Inc. Moderator and co-contributor was Ranger Kidwell-Ross, Executive Director of WSA.
The intent was to provide information and ideas for an entrepreneur based in the San Francisco area who was looking to purchase a power sweeping company. Ron has been very successful in the Florida region by assisting individuals in developing their own power sweeping businesses. Along the way, he has purchased a number of sweeping businesses.
If you are thinking about purchasing a sweeping company, you will find the ideas and information contained in this 50-minute audio to be of help.
For the first time ever, our Featured Contractor for this month is not one company, but two. Lexington Pavement Sweep was founded in the late 1980s by Jim Blackerby, Jr., to serve the Greater Lexington, Kentucky, market area.
By contrast, Louisville Pavement Sweep was founded by his son, Jim Blackerby III, only about a year-and-a-half ago. This is, in large part, the story about how a sweeping contractor of high ideals has inspired his son to follow in his footsteps.
