North American Sweeper Magazine

Things are heating up this summer, and business owners need to be mindful of the effects extreme heat can have on equipment. Though most sweeping is done at night, even storage in a hot location can create issues with your vehicles. Follow these simple but important tips to keep your fleet ready to withstand the […]

The 2022 Sweeper Summit & Equipment Expo has gone international and will be held at the Saddlebrook Golf Resort in Wesley Chapel, FL October 26th-28th with a scrambles golf outing on October 25th. The Title Sponsor this year will once again be Schwarze Industries. The day prior to the Summit opening, Tuesday, October 25th, the […]

How can you improve the day-to-day operations of your street sweeping business? We know that a contractor like you has long days, most of them spent outside the office, but we have some payroll and accounting strategies that will make your business run much more smoothly on a day-to-day basis — ones that will save […]

Not every recruiter can be an engineer, or hair stylist, or accountant. They know how to hire these roles, but not how to become them. On the flip side, it’s not as hard for every employee to act as a recruiter. In fact, recruiting power in each employee is often unrealized because we’re so busy […]

The street sweeping industry goes back to the 17th century when brooms and roads first existed side by side relatively commonly around the world. As late as the 1970s, men took jobs sweeping the streets of New York and similarly sized cities by hand. Today, full-sized, heavily equipped street sweeper trucks do almost all the […]

Recent cleaning and maintenance management industry research finds that the extreme spike in fuel prices this year has severely complicated the struggle for many small businesses hoping to recover from the economic damage of the pandemic. The research report from the Alignable Gas Price Poll shows that cleaning services that involve covering a lot of […]

The uptick in new small business startups since the shake-up of the small business sector began in early 2020 has brought many new entrepreneurs looking to maximize growth. Their strategy is to add revenue channels and adopt accelerated methods to offset losses from the lengthy restrictions on operations during the 2021-2021 quarantine. In early 2022, […]

ELGIN, Illinois — Elgin Sweeper, a leading global manufacturer of street sweepers, officially announced the new RegenX1®. Once again utilizing the input of Elgin’s customers and Innovation Lab, the RegenX1® is a customer-driven design, mid-dump regenerative air street sweeper that is easy to use, clean, and maintain. “After the success of the RegenX, we knew […]

If you run a street sweeping or paving business, you probably want to spend as much of your time as possible helping your customers and clients. Unfortunately, there are a lot of obligations that come with running a small business, and this includes managing your payroll practices. Even though you probably have a system that […]

Based in Kansas City, KS, All Care Services has been cleaning retail parking lots, streets, and construction sites, and more in the Kansas City Metropolitan area for over 23 years since 1999. As such, they are the only North American Sweeping Association (NAPSA) Certified power sweeping company in Kansas. They are also partnered with the […]