North American Sweeper Magazine

A decade ago, Viki and Kevin Kroeger believed they had what it takes to be entrepreneurs. They’ve been proven right. Today, they are CEO (Viki) and President (Kevin—“Yes,” he says, “I work for my wife”) of their own successful company, DSS Sweeping Inc. in Dayton, Ohio.
“Kevin and [...]

Every nervous flyer has his or her own checklist before taking off, just as the pilots in the cockpit have theirs.

Flotation device under the seat: check.
Access to the mid-plane emergency exits: check.
Nothing suspicious or odd [...]

A lot of sweeping companies begin their existence with basic equipment, but it would be hard to top Fred Cupp.  "When I started out, I swept parking lots with a broom and a dust pan," said Cupp, now the owner of Artscape Land Maintenance in Jarrettsville, MD. "We’re talking shopping centers; [...]

Change a light bulb. Install a sign. Patch a pothole. The days of simply sweeping parking lots are long gone for many contractors. Instead, most shopping center and apartment managers are looking for “one-stop” maintenance.
That means that sweeping contractors, long at the forefront of parking lot work, are [...]

Elgin Sweeper has introduced the Elgin Mobile Camera system as an option for its line of environmentally efficient street sweepers.

A sweeping business is about machines, but it’s also about people. Gary Frantz tries never to forget that.

Consider this a lesson in alphabet soup for the sweeper industry.
SCR. DEF. EGR. LMNOP. Actually, the last one is just part of the alphabet – it has nothing to do with street sweepers. The first three, however, soon will become familiar acronyms, or at least they should be.

At the National Pavement Expo West, the North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA) unveiled a prize drawing for any NEW members that join between December 3, 2009 and January 23, 2010.