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Because I'm going on vacation through the second week of September, I've posted our Featured Contractor for the coming month a couple of days early. California-based City Wide Maintenance Company has offices in Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Modesto and Los Angeles. We can all find inspiration in the positive approach and outlook of Albert Gonzalez, the company's president.

Allianz Sweeper Company has introduced the world's first purpose-built electric hybrid street sweeper – the Allianz 4000 Electric Hybrid. Simultaneously, Allianz announced the redevelopment of its website at AllianzSweeper.com.

Our August e-newsletter has been sent. If you didn't get a copy in your inbox, be sure you've signed our Guestbook and look in your spam folder. If it went to spam, check out our easy-to-do online instructions for adding us to your email 'whitelist' to ensure email from WS.com gets through to you.

Elgin has introduced is new Crosswind Specialty Track Sweeper, which will be making its debut at NASCAR racetracks around the country this racing season. Elgin's Brian Giles says the new sweeper is ideal for vacuuming water off track surfaces and picking up debris and oil-dry.

Safety expert, John Meola, has provided WorldSweeper with a half-hour audio interview on his APWA seminar topic. Meola's "Work Zone Safety Practice Information Every Sweeping Organization Should Implement" is a primer on keeping your crew safe on the work zone jobsite.

Our exclusive advance preview of SweeperMarket for August has been posted. You now have the option of viewing the magazine right here on the WorldSweeper.com site. When posted on August 16th, our online preview provided our readers with at least a full week's headstart on those who didn't see the ads until the magazine arrived by mail!

Schwarze Industries announced a two-unit deal for its DXR model with the City of Lafayette, Indiana's, Street Department.

If you want clean streams, you need clean streets. That's the message Brian Giles, sweeper product manager for Elgin Sweeper, shared recently with Chicago-area municipal officials and consulting engineers.

Schwarze Industries has announced that Joe Hendrickson will take on the role of Product Manager for the company's A & M and S-Series sales team.

Our July e-newsletter has been sent. If you didn't get a copy in your inbox, be sure you've signed our Guestbook and look in your spam folder. If it went to spam, check out our easy-to-do online instructions for adding us to your email 'whitelist' to ensure email from WS.com gets through to you.

Our exclusive advance preview of SweeperMarket for July has been posted. You now have the option of viewing the magazine right here on the WorldSweeper.com site. When posted on June 20th, our online preview provided our readers with at least a full week's headstart on those who didn't see the ads until the magazine arrived by mail!

Schwarze Industries has announced a load-leveler option for all of its M6000 model mechanical street sweepers.

Congratulations to Debbie Jacketta, president of Utah-based Jacketta Sweeping Service, for being featured in the latest PAVEMENT magazine.

The WorldSweeper.com website garnered a 2010 APEX Award of Excellence, making it a winner for the third year in a row! In addition, we won for our April Fool's Day spoof news alert announcing that NASA was sending a street sweeper into space. I am honored that these awards mark an unprecedented 15 years in a row that one or more of my projects have received recognition via a national APEX Award.

Mark Schwarze and Frank Chulick, presidents of Victory Sweepers, Inc. and Stewart-Amos Sweeper Co., respectively, have entered into a strategic partnership agreement. Under the joint agreement, Victory Sweepers will produce regenerative air street sweepers that will be marketed by Stewart-Amos and its growing dealer network.

The President signed into law HR 2847, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. The primary focus of this new law is to provide a tax incentive to employers hiring certain new employees. The legislation also includes depreciation incentives for small businesses purchasing equipment and puts an additional $20 billion into highway spending.

If you've owned even one mechanical broom sweeper, chances are you or your operator has run over some type of raised object and bent one of the skids on which the main broom rides. Check out Mohawk's solution to the problem.

Al Garza, Director of Public Works for the City of Pensacola, offers a thoughtful perspective on how his organization is evaluating the role of street sweeping in its pollution removal program.

Stay out from behind the 'Chapter 11 eightball' by keeping up with our exhaustive list of troubled companies. And let us know of any companies to add!

Are you a Facebook Fan of WorldSweeper.com yet? If you were, you'd have seen a preview and photo of an upcoming story on Saturday.

The online edition of Better Roads magazine offers an in-depth article on 2010 chassis and the competing SCR and EGR emissions' solutions. The WorldSweeper.com archives offers an audio interview on Izusu's choice, as well.

Safety must top the list of all organizations. Our article, from nationally recognized safety manager, John Meola, offers a 'Top Ten' list to ensure that you are operating a safe organization.

Getting plenty of bidding opportunities but not closing enough contracts? Take the suggestions in this article to heart and you'll be well on your way to increasing your closing rate.

If you're buying a sweeper or other capital equipment, be sure to use WorldSweeper.com's 'One Click' Finance Program. It's the easiest way we know of to get quotes from a number of lenders by filling out just one form. When vendors compete -- you win!

Finally, if you are a vendor to the sweeping industry and don't yet advertise here, please consider doing so with either a banner ad or a Sweeping Products listing. And, with as much traffic as this area gets, all contractors in America are missing a bet by not being in our Contractor Locator.

As you can see from the logos above the headline, we have an RSS feed on the website, as well as links to our Twitter and Facebook accounts. These are easy ways to keep up with news at WorldSweeper.com. We also offer a web page that contains the latest articles we've added to the site.

Good Sweeping,

-- Ranger Kidwell-Ross, editor
First time here? Please read my introductory welcome message. Updated information is also periodically available at my blog, The Editor's Notebook.

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WHAT'S NEW Here is where you'll find the latest stories we've posted online. You'll want to check often to find out the latest in industry news. STREET SWEEPING You'll find everything to do with street sweeping here. If that is the segment of the sweeping industry you are involved with, you'll want to check it out. SWEEPER SLIDESHOWS Want to see what sweepers used to be like? If so, you'll definitely want to check out our collection of old sweeper pictures. Some of the photos are even for sale, and what would look better on your office wall?! SWEEPING PRODUCTS Need to fix your sweeper, buy a new one or find the best deals and suppliers for sweeping-related products? As a way to show them you appreciate their support for this site, please do your shopping from manufacturers who support WorldSweeper.com. If you sell to the sweeping industry, be sure to sign up for your free or enhanced product listing! (opens in new window) SWEEPING AROUND THE WORLD Sweeping is a worldwide industry, but the techniques vary enormously depending upon where it's being done. We have a number of stories about how sweeping is done in various locations of the world, many from the award-winning online travelogues penned by our editor while traveling in Asia, Australia and Europe. You'll want to take a look.

FEATURED CONTRACTOR We're proud to feature this professional sweeping contractor on our home page. City Wide Maintenance Company, Inc. Ten years ago Albert and Janee Rodriguez started City Wide Pressure Washers. The goal: Operate with such impeccable ethics and customer service that their clients would have no clue the couple operated the company out of their garage. They were so successful at it that today the company offers an exhaustive list of services, and has operational offices in Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Modesto and Los Angeles. "I didn't get much sleep the first couple of years," reminisces Albert. "I slept with my phone at my bedside and when someone called it was me who would respond." The result was the couple's customers learned they would get taken care of, no matter what they needed or when they needed it. Our customers really liked our ethics and the way we operated the business, so much so that they wanted us to provide other services for them. They thought we were a much larger corporation than we actually were." Our feature article provides the reader with a host of positive ideas, especially regarding how to expand to multiple offices and get through the current 'challenging times.' We will be changing our featured contractor about once per month. If you'd like your company to be considered for this honor, please let us know.

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"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.