North American Sweeper Magazine

Why do OEMs typically use the best quality products for their new equipment? The answer is simple. They want the equipment to perform at its optimal condition when you decide to purchase their product. No one wants to replace the burners in their new Weber grill a couple of weeks after bringing it home. Especially […]

One of the most interesting and inspiring interviews featured in the Spotlight is this one, with Mathew Andrew, owner-operator of West Michigan Sweeper (WMS), based in Rockford Michigan, and serving the greater Grand Rapids area. NAS featured WMS in the Spotlight back in 2018 and was eager to have Matt Andrew share more about his […]

Pacific Sweeping provides power sweeping and power washing for more than 30 cities across five counties in southern California. The service cleans a staggering 350,000 miles of roadways and 15,000 parking lots per year. The company’s clients include Cal Trans, counties, utility companies, service providers for public events, and various government construction projects, and government […]

According to the EPA, 1 trillion gallons of water are lost every year due to household leaks; that’s enough water to supply over 11 million homes for an entire year (EPA 2020). Apart from (hopefully) infrequent plumbing disasters, most of this lost water is caused by small, almost imperceptible leaks, like a dripping faucet or […]

Since the early 1900s tube brooms have been the gold standard for street sweeping. Today most OEM sweeper manufacturers use the tube broom as the default option on their new sweepers. The tube broom is made by wrapping bristle around a steel tube. The broom is then mounted to the sweeper and rotates to either […]

By Mark Leyden, CLU®, CEO & Founder, Mark Leyden & Associate This is the second in a series of four articles discussing considerations around succession and continuity planning for family businesses leading to how life insurance strategies are utilized to achieve many of the goals for such planning. This article discusses the first 3 steps […]

Having a network of strong business relationships is essential for a healthy, agile enterprise. Every business needs to build relationships with people across the whole range of prospective business contacts, including customers, workers, investors, vendors, peer operators, other kinds of companies in the community, government representatives, and others. Fortunately, for business leaders looking to build […]

Gutter brooms, or also known as side brooms, are the brooms on the side of street sweepers, usually pick-up sweepers or vacuum sweeper. There are also a few sweeper attachments that have an option for a gutter broom. Gutter brooms are round in shape and rotate to pull debris from the curb line into the […]

Readers who’ve been in the business for a long time may finally start to assume you’ve already seen and heard it all. Then, unexpectedly, here comes someone truly operating on the cutting-edge! On a rare day, you may even discover someone innovating in multiple areas of their sales and service processes. This is one of […]

They say that membership has its privileges and NAPSA proves that to be true! The North American Power Sweepers Association has added a powerful cost saving benefit to its cornucopia of services. If you are in this industry, you realize that the topic of health care benefits is a huge pain point so NAPSA went […]