North American Sweeper Magazine

“We move large amounts of air,” Brad Wesley, who handles Product Sales for Buffalo Turbine, says, but after speaking to him for five minutes, it is clear that the company does much more than that. Established in 1945, Buffalo Turbine, located just south of Buffalo, New York, offers an extensive line of debris blowers that [...]

Tina and Cory McDonough have come a long way. From high school sweethearts to operating a successful business that they love, they’ve followed a road that hasn’t always taken them where they expected to go. Nonetheless, it has been a journey that has allowed them to have rich experiences and touch a surprising number of [...]

Keystone Street Sweeping Brooms & Brushes has seen 50 years in the industry. With that many years in business comes years of expertise, and Jack Moran, Sales Manager for Keystone, knows his stuff. “My expertise allows a comfort zone for people to call and get answers to their questions,” he says. Through earned trust, Keystone [...]

Environmental and public safety goals are becoming more stringent with the increasing amount of construction regulations by government agencies. Many companies have had to deal with a difficult economy in recent years, but they have also added those stringent regulations to their list, which has become quite the one-two punch. Such has not been the [...]

WasteBooks has been developing software for waste haulers since 1987. WasteBooks is an integrated module to QuickBooks that provides enhanced functionality needed by waste haulers in residential, commercial and roll-off operations. The software solution is designed to manage the entire waste business—not just your books, routing and billing. The WasteBooks staff offers both experience and [...]

Tom Denney may be relatively new to the post of manager for the Public Works Division of the City of Winchester, Virginia, but as a long-time Winchester resident, he’s an old hand at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival® that’s been coming to town each spring for the last 84 years. So even though he pays [...]

The Monterey peninsula in California is almost unimaginably beautiful. Next time you visit or see images of the city and its beaches, streetscapes, parks and protected Monterey Bay marine sanctuary, consider the effort that goes into keeping it all looking pristine. And besides making roads and walkways look clean, just how much does street sweeping [...]

Michael Bellew is Chief of Cleaning Operations for New York City’s Department of Sanitation. He started his career in 1981 as a Sanitation Worker and rose through the ranks at a steady pace, serving as Supervisor, General Superintendent I, Deputy Chief then Assistant Chief of Cleaning, until he was promoted to his current position as [...]

Denver International Airport (DIA) has six runways, five of which are 12,000 feet in length. But the sixth, stretching 16,000 feet in length, gives DIA the bragging rights to having the longest runway in the country. “It’s hard to put into words the size of it,” Ron Morin, DIA’s Director of Field Maintenance, said. DIA [...]

The numbers alone are intimidating. Fifty-seven acres. Four million square feet of parking decks. Almost four miles of road surfaces. And all of this is in snowy Minnesota, to boot. Welcome to the Mall of America. Street sweepers, property managers and others responsible for commercial pavement know that keeping their lots and sidewalks clear of [...]