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Parking Area Sweeping:
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Best Practices in Parking Area Sweeping

Best Practices for Dealing With Insurance Adjusters

In most sweeping organizations, sooner or later a sweeper accident will occur. You will then be dealing with one or more insurance representatives and/or adjusters. Here are some tips gleaned from a conversation with an independent insurance claims adjuster, Kevin McNamara, who owns Chugiak, Alaska-based Denali Adjusters. Take a look.

Sweeper Buying and Selling Best Practices

The intent of this article used to provide you with information that will assist you in both buying and selling a used sweeper or other vehicles. The approximately 20-minute audio interview with Mark Boyer, editor of SweeperMarket and PaverMarket buy/sell publications, is broken into two parts. The first covers best practices when you sell your sweeper; the second discusses best practices to utilize when you buy a used sweeper. Take a look.

Maximizing Your Company's Value to Customers

Although you want to make sure to understand what's important to each individual client, you will maximize your customer service and professionalism by recognizing and following these guidelines. Take a look.

2012 NPE "Best Practices" for Power Sweeping Contractors

In the 2012 version of the popular three-hour seminar, each of the approximately 75 participants had an opportunity to split out and contribute to three different topic areas. Each was facilitated by the owner of a substantial-sized sweeping company. Take a look.

2010 NPE "Best Practices" for Power Sweeping Contractors

In the 2010 version of the popular three-hour seminar, each of the approximately 75 participants had an opportunity to split out and contribute to three different topic areas. Except for one headed by a property manager, each was facilitated by the owner of a substantial-sized sweeping company. This article has the synopses of each of the topics discussed. This information came from the 2010 National Pavement Exposition. Take a look.

2009 NPE "Best Practices" for Power Sweeping Contractors

In the three-hour seminar, each of the approximately 80 seminar participants had an opportunity to split out and contribute to two different topic areas. All but two of the topic areas were facilitated by the owner of a substantial sized sweeping company. This article has the audio synopses of each of the topics discussed. This information came from the 2009 National Pavement Exposition. Listen to the interviews.

How a Property Manager Assesses a Sweeping Contractor

Massachusetts-based Laura Schmitt has been involved with property management for over 20 years, and currently manages a slate of properties for Equity One, Inc. You'll want to hear what Schmitt has to say about what property managers look for when choosing a power sweeping contractor. Listen to the interview.

Uri Ben-Yashar's NPE 2006 BMP Focus Group Seminars.

Focus groups of contractors at the NPE 2006 show came up with BMPs for sweeping in seven different areas. This is the seminar our editor called "the most information packed sweeping-oriented seminar held at NPE in the last decade." Go to Table of Contents.

Individual seminar topics were:

Parking Area Storage and Maintenance Fact Sheet.

Fact sheet by California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA) on how parking areas should be maintained in order to minimize pollutant runoff, etc. PDF file format. Read the story.