
Originally Posted by
JJinLV
Any way you can offer something others don't to ease your clients' workloads is the way to go! Long term, if fitting with your goals, lift gate on the truck would let you leave the trailer at home for smaller pickups. Also if you get a halfway decent sized hotel as a client - think your average Holiday Inn or larger - you'll start getting those rolling carts for free, especially if you can help reduce their landfill footprint by handling some waste that they have that is not yet ready for recycling (partial TP rolls, partial kleenex boxes, partial shampoo bottle, etc). You can also get extra
ewaste from hotels by handling their lost and found. But hotels always have extra push carts of all different types like those U-line ones and are good irregular clients anyways.
I had an extended stay hotel/apartment type place for a few months before the pandemic and in the span of like 3 months I got a load of 20ish hot water heaters, a load of like 20 bikes (that they cut off of a rack after it was there too long/been abandonned) and a whole bunch of other odds and ends. hotels/apt complexes are great. But during the pandemic the manager that I knew there either got let go or moved jobs and I havent been able to reconnect with the new one... (i tried but email went unanswered)
I should try to get some others...
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