Jump to content

Scott Stone

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    1,760

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

Posts posted by Scott Stone

  3. Posted · Report reply

    So, Chris congratulating me is inciting Jim. Meanwhile, Jim is doing his best to hijack the thread to divert attention to him. Meanwhile, I am being chastised for defending myself from someone who is trying to make it appear that my business is barely successful, in an underhanded and deceitful way.

    It is truly a curious world we live in. What is even more amazing is that Jim did not even realize that I usually drop throughTGS once a day, or so.

  4. Posted · Report reply

    What are you insinuating Jim? Is this an attack because you do not want people to realize that the trucks in the following videos are all mine?

    If you take the effort to count, you will notice that there are 23 machines that operate on a daily basis in that photo. That means that there is less then a 5% chance that my PGDC will be displayed in any photo. You will also notice that there are 8 other trucks that are used in other operations for my company. Do you care to compare?

    I will also let you know that if I left tomorrow for a month, that every aspect of my company would run just as smoothly as it did today, or yesterday. It is a beautiful thing to go and do what I want, when I want to do it, and have no worries, including whether or not I will have money to build a new rig or pay for a vacation, if I want.

    Incidentally, the only partner I have in this operation is my wife. I did the legwork to arrange equipment, I dealt with all the regulators, and bond people. Together we dealt with letting the powers that be know who we are, and with arranging the million dollar finance package we needed for the contract. For what it is worth, to those who want to believe differently, all financing was paid off in the first year of the contract.

  8. Posted · Report reply

    I have also seen people portray themselves as powerwash contractors, and consider themselves experts in their field when they have seldom, if ever touched a wand. I would take a guy's opinion that has actually done the work far over someone that is a salesman that subcontracts all of his work out. There is no real experience in watching someone else do the work.

  10. Posted · Edited by Beth n Rod · Report reply

    Yep, ******************** car and rig. He hooked it to his car because his truck was too tall to fit where he needed it to go. Incidentally, for a low baller he did well. It was a $1000 job that took two hours. It is all in the original thread on the other forum.

  15. Posted · Edited by Scott Stone · Report reply

    I consider you a parking garage expert but above that you excel in transportation maintenance specialist which is the major part of you company. So I guess your in the luxury position of picking one. The thing is Scott guys can toot there own horn and say they specialize in multiple types of cleaning like we do but if there is one aspect of your business that shine above all which part are your best at ?

    Since right now a vast majority of our reputation lies with how well we clean and maintain transit facilities, I would say we are transit cleaning specialist.

  16. Posted · Report reply

    I just muddle along doing what I do. I guess John doesn't feel I excel at parking garage cleaning. We are down a bit. We only cleaned about 20 last year. Mostly, I am a government contractor.

    Overall, I consider myself a transportation maintenance specialist. If it involves any type of transportation, I am the guy.

  18. Posted · Report reply

    I am a Ford guy. I have two Ford f-250's and a Toyota Pickup. I also have an Excursion to haul people around in. Everything has a specific job. The truck that I drive and that does the majorityof the trailer pulling is a diesel 4x4. The other ford is a 5.4 gasser. The Toyota also is gas. They had a diesel available that year, but I did not buy this truck new, so I bought it when I found a good deal.

    I prefer the diesel. The next pickup that I get is going to be a diesel, if at all possible. The only situation that I can imagine buying gas is if I need multiple small pickups for some reason. I will probably not by any more new trucks, unless it is for me. I can get good used and well maintained work trucks too cheap to justify it.

    Scott

    My how my business has changed over the last 8 years.

    My current fleet consists of

    1 2002 Chevy C-30 ( I was weak at an auction...)

    12 2011 Ford F-350's

    2 2012 Ford F-350's

    4 2006 Ford F-350's

    1 2005 Ford F-550

    1 2004 F-250

    1 2006 F-250

    1 2012 F-250

    1 2006 Toyota Tacoma

    1 2008 Toyota Tacoma

    3 2011 F 150's

    I really like my Ford's. I have had minimal problems with any of them. They are all gas except the 05 and 06 Fords. I just could not justify the cost financially for the difference between the Diesel trucks and the Gas trucks, because they run all day, but really don't get that many miles on them. Around 50-60 a day.

×