North American Sweeper Magazine

Outside of the actual bookkeeping that keep your revenues and expenses straight, you can also employ law and structure to save your street sweeping business money in taxes and expenses. Here are some of the ways to identify the best accounting structure for a street sweeping company. Understanding the Costing Method In order to give [...]

Most of us don’t give much consideration to noise on a day-to-day basis, but you may find yourself on a job site in both business and residential areas that limit the decibel level permitted. Many cities have developed noise ordinances that restrict the allowable noise level(s) at certain times of day for different zoned areas [...]

Sweeper Summit 2016 is excited to announce the first of many guest speakers, Eric Van Dam. Eric is currently a Vice President at Quarton International. Eric has over 10 years of investment banking, private equity, and hedge fund experience. Prior to joining Quarton, Eric was a hedge fund analyst at Kingdon Capital, a $2.5 billion [...]

Where: Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, MN Dates: August 28-31st Exhibit Hall Hours: Sunday, Noon – 4 p.m. Monday,10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. About: The first ever PWX, APWA’s newly revised and newly branded annual conference! Although the APWA annual conference has been around for more than 120 years, [...]

“HE WHO FAILS TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL”. – Winston Churchill This popular saying illustrates a life lesson worth learning over and over. For many small business owners, hard work is usually not the problem. Crises arise and push yearly planning down the list of priorities until before you know it, you’re scrambling to [...]

Managing your fleet of street sweepers can take many forms. While some people might swear by the traditional method of paper and pen when scheduling and tracking their vehicles, this process can easily gobble up valuable time that could be spent better on other goals like increasing business or reaching out to customers. Fleet management [...]

What is the secret to finding the best possible employees for operating parking lot and street sweeping equipment? For years employee turnover rates have plagued the power sweeping industry. For equally as long, owners and managers alike have struggled to define just what traits make the perfect employee for the sweeping industry. Many questions perplex [...]

No, the title of this article is not the theme to the Lone Ranger; it’s what many sweepers face handling every hopper load of debris. If your sweeper has a low dump hopper, then you’re faced with dumping in a landfill, a transfer station or on the ground where the pile eventually has to be [...]

As an independent small business owner, it is easy to feel isolated and without allies within the industry. For most of us, the largest asset that we have is the business that we have built through our hard work and dedication. It is everyone’s goal to see their business grow to become a thriving enterprise [...]

Expanding your business will most likely involve significant investment of time and treasure. This is why it is necessary to take the time to think it through and develop a solid and doable business plan before anything else. There are numerous business action plan templates available over the Internet but one authoritative model, called SWOT, [...]