• Mark Herbick’s NPE seminar video on buying and selling a business is now online.
• Walmarts have increased their sweeping frequency and a reminder not to contact store managers directly.
• We have added SuperiorRoads Solutions (and Sweeprite) as a WSA Member benefit for parts with a 15% price reduction.
• We added a GPS section to the website, as well as a new page that contains GPS systems current WSA Members like and use.
• Discussion of WalMart not changing from 3x/4x/week to 6x/7x/week as previously noticed to contractors.
• Info about National Maintenance Systems’ contract that offers negative contractor clauses
• Reminder that for our 20% discount from Elgin a commitment for buying all Elgin sweeper-specific parts from Elgin Parts is requested.
• Link to webinar on Preventing Slips and Falls
• WSA Member request to see if anyone has a phone app for scheduling and in-truck reporting
• Link to Safety First! tip for the month as well as John Meola’s 2016 NPE video
• Link to info about the Affordable Care Act tax forms employees will be getting from IRS and how to provide notice to them about the forms and their importance
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.
• 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.
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.
