Types of accounts

[GeoffDiamond]

What types of accounts do you guys do?<p>Me<br>Private roads about 10% of my business. Also some of the quickest to do.<br>Residental Driveway 20%<br>Condos and Appartments 20%<br>Parking Lots 50%<p>Anyways what do you guys do?<br>Driveways, Private roads, Public Roads, Parking lots, Condos, Appartment Buildings, snow hauling <p>In maine there just isn't enough big parking lots. A lot of mom and pop store size ones. All my accounts except for about 2-4% of my driveways are a yearly price.<p>Geoff<br>

[Lazer]

Private Roads: 5-10%<br>Residential: 45%<br>Parking lots: 45%<p>It used to be residential was where the $ was, but now with the end-loaders and 18-20' plows, that's changing.<p>Condos & Apartments I leave to my colleagues :)<p>

[n y snow pros]

We do 100% commercial accounts,such as strip malls,shopping centers,and companys such as The gap distribution center,marriott,Barnes and Noble,Stop and Shop We started out doing residetial driveways about 3 years ago and now gone commercial,both for security and money <p>----------<br>J PARKER<br>914-485-4200

[Lazer]

Security? I assume annual contracts? That does make sense. In our market (before pusher boxes & big plows became popular) a driveway truck was over 100% more profitable than a commercial counterpart, like I said that's changing, though.<p>All our driveways are flat fee per season, paid up front. Our commercial all all flat fee as well, but we miss out on a lot of big stuff because it's hourly or maybe per trip. <p>Also, even if the commercial plowing isn't as profitable with a pick-up, the salting (or in Maine, &quot;sanding&quot;) work is of course great money.

[thelawnguy]

What do you get for commercial lots-the shopping centers, not the ten-space mini-mart lots. Seems like a big investment, with the cost of loaders push boxes etc. Here its standard to leave a loader at the lot all season which means its not earning anywhere else, plus theyre not cheap to maintain so Im wondering where all the profit is coming from.<p>Bill

[Lazer]

lawnguy,<p>Our loaders do several large lots each. They work with 1 pick-up truck each and travel right down the road. One stays in one of our lots and the other one the operator parks at his house. <p>Loaders (with big boxes or blades) allow 1 operator to clear co much more snow than a pick-up used to be able to. Like 2-5 times more, depending on parking lot and condidtions. We lease our loaders, so the cost of the machine in relatively inexpensive and the maintenance is almost zero.

[yardsmith]

hey guys-<br>here in ohio we have somewhat infrequent snow, so when it comes, you gotta make good time.<br>My business is 60% residential, & 40% commercial. I am still a one man show, so I'm limited on how many I can take. Because of that, I find that driveways are much more profitable. Commercial market here is pretty competitive, & avg. small to med. size parking lot only makes you 50-65 bucks for 45 min. to an hr. I can do 5-8 drives at 20-25 bucks a piece in an hr. <br>I am currently working on keeping accounts close to home; right now I have the route mapped out in a giant loop, mixing res. & comm. as I'm in that section of town. <br>That is what works best for me.<br>-Smitty