Customer Fuel Surcharges: When, How, and How Much?

In a time of fast-moving fuel prices, don’t let your margins erode because you haven’t added in a fuel surcharge to customers.

Florida’s Superior Property Maintenance Service “Shoots for the Stars”

Ethics; Perseverance; Honesty: These are all traits that describe Leon Nelson, owner of Superior Property Maintenance, Inc. A native Jamaican, Nelson’s first job when he came to Florida in 1997 was as a sweeper operator. After working for two different sweeping companies over the course of the next six years, Nelson then went into the sweeping business with a co-worker partner. However, as you will read, it wasn’t an easy road after that, either.

A Reasoned Argument for Power Sweepers Being Exempt From Noise Ordinances

When the city of Boise, Idaho wanted to restrict sweeper operation, Ranger Kidwell-Ross (then-editor of American Sweeper Magazine and WSA’s current Executive Director) wrote a detailed letter to city officials asking for street sweepers to be exempted from the newly-installed noise ordinance. This article contains that letter, which contains information WSA members may use.

Veri Makes Business Learning Enjoyable

The internet provides many new opportunities for learning. A website that caught our eye is called Veri, which is a site dedicated to both the learning and sharing of knowledge. There are a number of business-oriented ones that sweeping contractors might find useful.

Puerto Rico’s Sweep and Vac Combines Contracting With Equipment Sales

Title: Puerto Rico’s Sweep and Vac Combines Contracting With Equipment Sales In the 1970s, Carlos Nevares made decisions for the sanitation department of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In that position, he became familiar with a wide variety of equipment, including a number of types of sweepers. His long term goal became to get into the sweeping business, but he wasn’t motivated to do so until he saw a magazine ad for an entirely new type of sweeper. “All of the sweepers I’d seen you had to tweak them every day to get them to work right,” said Nevares. “Then, in 1988 I saw an ad for a Schwarze air sweeper and was impressed enough that I visited the company in 1989. We talked business and essentially by buying the sweeper I became the dealer for Puerto Rico. I believe that today I’m the Schwarze company’s oldest dealership.”

Get Your Power Sweeping Company Looking Good on Paper

An experienced contractor tells how to put forth a professional image on paper.

Which Are Louder, Sweepers or Sweeping Contractors?

Boise contractors band together to create a dramatic media event against a crippling proposed noise ordinance. Although this happened some years ago, if you are having trouble with noise restrictions you will be able to glean a host of usable information from what Idaho’s Pavement and Parking Area Maintenance Association wrote about why sweepers should be exempt from noise ordinances.

Canada’s Arrowhead Parking Services Sweeps the High Road, Gives Scofflaws the Boot and Much More

Title: Canada’s Arrowhead Parking Services Sweeps the High Road, Gives Scofflaws the Boot and Much More Paul Lemmon, the president of Arrowhead Parking Services, entered the sweeping industry via an unlikely background. Drawing on his background in law enforcement – which included stints with both Canadian Customs and with Immigration – he started as a consultant helping customers make sure their business signage conformed to legal guidelines. However, after a few years of listening to customers’ needs, he decided to expand his firm into more hands-on areas of actually installing any needed signage. Then, it wasn’t much of a leap to start assisting in another pervasive area of need, construction and parking lot sweeping.

The Ten Commandments of Yellow Pages Advertising

Yellow pages guru, Barry Maher, tells it like it is when it comes to yellow pages advertising.

Submit Your Website to Search Engines

The article offers a link that allows you to submit your website to a variety of search engines, including Yahoo!, Bing, Google and more. It’s easy to do and it’s FREE!