North American Sweeper Magazine

1-800-SWEEPER has created two value-added tools to its arsenal of marketing programs and materials. A Marketing Toolkit is now available to all 1-800-SWEEPER Partners via the 1-800-SWEEPER website. The toolkit is designed to offer brand guidelines and standards as well as marketing program templates and downloadable logos in a variety of formats to ensure brand […]

Small businesses tackle challenging tasks daily, but with 60.6 million U.S. workers employed by small businesses, effective management is essential to running a successful operation. Employees rely on timely payments, and employers risk a costly mistake if they misfile taxes. Payroll processing software through third-party vendors assumes responsibility for services from completing payroll forms, tracking […]

Everyone knows the success of your business is directly related to the quality of your team. And every good team consists of players with a variety of skills. At NiteHawk, we’re fortunate to have incredible assemblers and welders in our production facility, skilled technicians in customer support, and tenacious salespeople out on the road. But […]

If we’ve learned anything over the past 12 months in lockdown, it’s that we have to evolve to survive. Many of our businesses look very different than they did a year ago. And those of us who will continue to thrive are consistently looking for ways to become more sophisticated with steady revenue and loyal […]

WEST CHESTER, PA, MARCH 2021 — Oakmont Capital Services (OCS) has further expanded its sales and operations teams. As an independent direct lender partnered with a bank, Oakmont is committed to offering customers low rates via a virtual, streamlined process. The three additions to the team enhance the company’s commitment to service: Aaron Dym, Controller, […]

It’s been nearly 10 years since 1-800-SWEEPER burst onto the power sweeping industry scene in August of 2011. Armed with a vision, a powerful vanity phone number and the support of 22 sweeping company owners, Mike Lucht began what remains to be the only co-op organization in the sweeping industry. Headquartered in Toledo, OH, 1-800-SWEEPER […]

Bicycle path in the City of Espoo gets cleaned fully autonomically and with 85 % less energy consumption. Commercial pilots will roll out through early 2021 to kick start the era of greener and more sustainable city cleaning. Finnish street maintenance technology developer Trombia Technologies launched the world’s first full-power autonomous street sweeper in September […]

The global company and sweeping industry leader known as NiteHawk came from creative yet humble beginnings. The late inventor and manufacturer Jack Rodgers envisioned a lighter, more powerful sweeping machine, and in 1985 Rodgers patented the first hydraulic sweeper. Over the next ten years, he worked tirelessly to refine the prototype, a machine that would […]

As a power sweeping contractor, choosing the perfect accounting software package can truly revolutionize the way you do business. In fact, with 82% of small businesses utilizing some form of accounting software, it’s never been a better time to transition to adapted accounting software that boosts your business and helps you stay profitable. Repetitive tasks […]

Jim Adair, Director of Product Management at Schwarze Industries, emphasizes the urgency of proper sweeper maintenance, “As soon as its care is let go, its deterioration will have a snowball effect.” However, Jim says that in his experience, many sweeping companies do not have a (formal) daily process or maintenance schedule that their teams use […]