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Join Us At National Pavement Expo

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1-800-SWEEPER – in Booth #129 – will showcase our partnership program at NPE – January 28th and 29th in Charlotte, NC. We look forward to welcoming prospective power sweeping contractors to our booth and showing how our organization has already generated over 2.5 million dollars in business for our partners, saved hundreds of thousands of dollars through our co-op buying opportunities and given our vendor and sweeping partners the opportunity to exchange ideas and information during four annual Sweeper Summits.
National Pavement Expo is an annual draw for companies engaged in

  • Power Sweeping
  • Line Striping
  • Seal Coating / Crack Repair
  • Pavement Resurfacing
  • Porter Service
  • Catch Basin Service

2016 represents the first time that 1-800-SWEEPER has had booth space at NPE. With attendance expected to be high, we are excited to meet prospective partners from around the country. Exhibit Hall hours are: Wednesday, Jan. 27 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28 & Friday, Jan. 29 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. In addition, we’ll have the opportunity to socialize and catch up with our peers on Wednesday and Thursday nights. On Wednesday we have the Sweepers Night Out, once again co-sponsored by 1-800-SWEEPER, at the Whiskey River. Come out and meet NASCAR driver David Ragan from Michael Waltrip Racing from 7:00p – 10:00 p.m. On Thursday night, from 6:30p-9:30p, all NPE exhibitors and attendees are invited to an exclusive networking and entertainment experience, NASCAR Night, at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Our Operations Director, Gregg Blair, Marketing Director Carolyn Bell and 1-800-Sweeper Board President Mike Lucht will all be in Charlotte. Please plan to join us at Booth 129 near the College Street entrance, meet current partners and learn for yourself about our 3-dimensional advantages and how becoming a partner can help you rise above the competition!

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Swept Away In South Carolina – Mother Nature Lets Loose

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For David McCaskill and many other Columbia, SC residents, there will be no forgetting the October 2015 flood that came as a result of Hurricane Joaquin. The original weather forecasts on Thursday, October 1st called for heavy rains and possible flooding south of the capital city, so fears were not that high in the beginning. But it just kept raining. It rained consistently all day Friday and by Saturday night the rain was still falling. What was dubbed the “1,000-year” rain eventually dumped more than 20 inches of rain over some parts of South Carolina over a single weekend.

David owns Accusweep, and has two locations in South Carolina – one in Charleston and one in Columbia where he lives. One of his clients is a former Kmart shopping center that was recently renovated into the new Rosewood Commons. Some of the anchor stores including Marshall’s and PetSmart had already moved in before the flood struck. So on Friday, just to be proactive, Accusweep installed flood barriers on the vacant spaces around the center. These structures were 4 feet tall and would be able to hold the waters back from the building.

Saturday night the rain continued, and David sent his employees out to sweep parking lots as usual but asked them to drive past the new shopping center and check on it throughout the night. It was Gill’s Creek that concerned him. The creek ran in front of the Rosewood Commons strip center.

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Clean Parking Lots: Use a Zone Defense to Protect Your Facility

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Make no mistake, dirt and contaminants in your parking and loading/unloading areas around your building represent a threat to interior cleanliness, employee health, and your company’s checkbook. By establishing and maintaining a “Clean Zone” approach around your facility, you can effectively reduce interior maintenance costs and provide a cleaner, healthier environment for all of your employees and customers.

Is your parking lot clean?

Sure, you get someone to occasionally clean up the obvious stuff like the cups and light litter from your parking lots.  However there is an unseen battle being fought on your property every day. Cars, trucks, wind, and rain are bringing sand, dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, brake dust, and other fine particulates onto your property and leaving them all over your parking lots and sidewalks.

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Stormwater Pollution Prevention Planning In Construction: Street Sweeping is a BMP

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Keeping waterways clean and limiting airborne dust disturbed during construction may not initially seem like an area of attention for companies known for maintaining parking lots and sweeping municipal streets. Yet, many consider street sweeping to be the final line of defense keeping eroding and tracked soil and sediment off roads and out of storm water drainage systems. Our power broom sweeping and vacuum sweeping expertise is identified as one of the Best Management Practices (BMPs) for builders to carry out in connection with a qualified sediment and erosion control plan.

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Sweeper Summit ’15 Recap

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Your 1-800-SWEEPER staff would like to thank all of the vendors, prospective partners and power sweeping company owners / management teams who attended our organization’s fourth annual Sweeper Summit. Once again expertly coordinated by Member Services Administrator Carolyn Bell, this year’s event was held in Phoenix AZ. Based on early feedback, attendees enthusiastically agree the conference was a huge success – educational, enjoyable and memorable!

Sweeper Summit 2015

Unique within our industry, Sweeper Summit has come to represent an opportunity for our membership to share best management practices and deeply understand metrics specific to sweeping service businesses. At the same time, our group continues to get fantastic personalized training, together with old friends and new partners in a casual and relaxed atmosphere.

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