Title:Accusweep Services has Gained Long Term Success by Being a Team Operation
In 1987, David McCaskill worked as a sales rep for a local radio station. One day when he was at lunch with one of his clients, as he often did he asked the man what type of job he thought David would be best suited for. The customer said “What about the parking lot sweeping business?” He then went on to explain that he, himself, had a sweeper truck and swept his own parking lot.
After asking some of his other customers if he could sweep their lots, and getting positive answers, McCaskill got a sweeper and got to work. Today, going on 25 years later, the Accusweep Services Team sweeps parking lots and much more.
Title:Centroplex Sweeping Combines Savvy, Safety and Emphasis on Community Involvement
Alfred Lopez grew up around his father’s sweeping and pavement maintenance company. He clearly recalls that the part that fascinated him as a boy was watching the sweepers. There was even the night when he was about 12 that he snuck out to watch the sweeper go around in the parking lot nearby.
Today, as owner of Centroplex Sweeping, he runs a high profile company in which he combines business savvy with an emphasis on safety training and community involvement.
Title:C&J Parking Lot Sweeping, Inc. – One of America’s Top Echelon Sweeping Companies
Ray Confer already owned a landscaping business in 1978 when he started into sweeping. His new venture resulted from a request by a property manager that was a client of Confer’s landscaping company. At a Rotary meeting, the mall manager asked if he knew anything about sweeping parking lots.
Ray confessed that he didn’t know anything about sweeping – especially how to bid it. The mall manager responded that his current sweeping contractor had come into his office yelling and screaming at him. “If you go out and get a sweeper,” the manager told him, “I have a contract waiting for you.”
Title:Commercial Property Maintenance Emphasizes Dependability, Pride and Communication
CPM’s founder, Windell Brent, started into this field because of a property manager friend’s lament that he couldn’t “locate a company to provide maintenance that will show up two times in a row or call me back.”
In the 23 years since then, Brent’s Commercial Property Maintenance company has built a reputation for doing that and much more. CPM has grown from three employees, two lawn mowers and one old sweeper to thirty employees, eleven industrial sweepers and numerous other pieces of landscape and power washing equipment, trucks and trailers.
Title:Sweeping a Big Part of Alaska Snow Removal’s Business
With a name like Alaska Snow Removal Services — known throughout its market area as simply ‘ASR’ — someone might think they know all the company does. However, in this instance that’s not the case.
Because of the large amount of snow abatement material the ASR team puts down during snow season, picking it back up again for clients takes a sizable sweeper fleet.
In addition to more snow removal, stacking, hauling and other snow-related services than most people in the lower 48 states can think of that has to do with snow and ice, ASR provides most any other pavement-related service around — even to designing the parking lots themselves.
This article consists of an audio interview with Joel Potts, vice-president of operations for Malco Services, Inc., a sweeping company located in Anaheim, California.
