Tom Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Crazy Idea!!!! That being said I am always looking for an opportunity.....Being an entrepreneur and a risk taker.....Let's find some investors and bid on snow plowing in cities....They have a budget and hope to not go over, we have an understanding of the weather and seasonal call, let's buy that budget or bid higher saying they are under budget.....Let's take snow plow/removal to the private sector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binovc Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Over here in Michigan where we see lots of snow, contracts come 2 ways. An agreed upon price by the push, or a flat rate season contract. If you have a contract in a nino year the plow operator probably makes out pretty good. Some public streets on school bus routes are also put up to private bid. Over all the city plows do a very good job in this part of the world as we all know what to expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottmartin49 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Crazy Idea!!!! That being said I am always looking for an opportunity.....Being an entrepreneur and a risk taker.....Let's find some investors and bid on snow plowing in cities....They have a budget and hope to not go over, we have an understanding of the weather and seasonal call, let's buy that budget or bid higher saying they are under budget.....Let's take snow plow/removal to the private sector Don't forget- traditionally, plowing/salting has been a 'winter function' of DPW's, and a useful way to keep them occupied during the slack period for road (and other) construction. As such, budgets are hard to disentangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 I was talking cities not private companies, and can still use those employees to do the job, just take the risk off the politicians hands to have to budget it.....Get the best possible minds at long range and some area will lose money hope enough make money....Take a city like NY, they spend 1 million an each inch if they avg 29-33" ... Bid to do all snow removal based on long range forecast done end of Oct early Nov. If you feel it's going to be a big winter bid 40 million+ and if they go over budget make sure taxpayers know about it, if long range feels lower than normal snowfall bid 33 million and let them lock it in with no risk of going over budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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