Title:T.W. Hall Offers Over a Quarter-Century of Experience
Working for the University of Alaska in 1980, Dwan Hall saw an opportunity in the snow removal business so he bought a snowplow. Today, the combination sweeping and plowing business has assets worth over $1 million.
Title:Indiana’s Clean Sweep Lot Services, LLC, Provides Customer Satisfaction
From starting with a broom and a wheelbarrow, Tim Toler has grown his company a long way. For eight years Tim Toler did outside maintenance for a developer. Noticing that a store in the area wasn’t keeping its lot clean, Toler contacted the manager, who put him in contact with the management company. He not only got a contract to do that property, but nine others managed by the same firm.
For a couple years, Toler and his son continued to clean the properties by hand, while continuing with his full-time day job. Coupled with starting to go to church on a regular basis, he says he came to the realization that there was enough money in other people’s trash to quit his regular job and go full time with sweeping.
Title:Central Sweeping, Inc. Offers Certified Services Throughout its Central Florida Marketplace
Florida’s only NAPSA-Certified company offers over 40 years of experience.
Title:Clean Sweep, Inc. Offers Certified Services Throughout Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee
Pete Phillips, president of Clean Sweep, Inc., literally grew up in the parking lot sweeping business. His dad founded the company in 1984 with a single sweeper that ended up in an accident and was a total loss only three months later. In spite of such a rocky start, the company has progressed to being a market leader in Tennessee.
Phillips, a fixture at the yearly National Pavement Expositions, is one of those contractors who constantly works at finding better ways to operate his business. At the show, he not only attends a number of seminars where he can learn the latest about techniques and equipment, but also may be found among those savvy contractors who burn the midnight oil in productive bull sessions with other industry professionals.
Title: SDT Waste and Debris Services Takes Bull by the Horns in New Orleans
The many problems associated with hurricane Katrina have been well documented. As one might suspect, cleanup of the French Quarter and other tourist-related areas were key to getting the city back on its feet once again. One of the somewhat hidden success stories in that regard has its seed in the beginning of SDT Waste and Debris Services, LLC.
Sidney Torres
SDT’s founder, Sidney Torres IV, is a well-known real estate developer and Louisiana native who also saw self-described time as musician “Lenny Kravitz’s gopher.” Torres said that, after Katrina, he could see that the job of waste pickup and sweeping in New Orleans simply wasn’t being done well by Waste Management. Then, in the wake of new, post-Katrina contracts in New Orleans, Waste Management declined to bid, citing that they would be unable to meet the required specifications.
Title:Progressive Sweeping’s Success Credited to Customer Response Times and Accurate Expense Tracking
Back in 1978, Mike Lucht was using his management degree to sell life insurance. After four or five years of that, Lucht says, “my entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and I looked around for something else. Tom Maish (longtime head of Ohio-based Contract Sweepers and Equipment) talked to me about sweeping parking lots. He was a TYMCO dealer and so knew about the concept. I ended up buying a TYMCO 210 from him — back then they didn’t even have dual tires on the back — and I was in business for myself.
Mike Lucht “Those might be called the ‘glory days’ of parking lot sweeping. I had great sales skills I had learned to sell insurance, where I was used to making 100 cold phone calls to get 10 appointments to sell one policy. With sweeping I could make 10 calls, get five appointments and sell three jobs. What a difference!”
