Scott Stone

Jim instigates it, I only respond.

So, I guess if Someone came on multiple boards and said you were not who you claim, or that you were unable to clean a deck properly, or perhaps if I came to your area and tried to get regulators to increase regulation on you that you wouldn't care?

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.

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.

Nice work.

They were still using oil in the 60's and 70's.

They work well, but F9 works far and away better.

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.

Those were later then the bugeye sprites. The bugeye sprites ad the headlights in the hood.

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.

Get some F9 on those rust stains, and it will look nearly brand new. The oil clean up looks excellent.

I just turn mine over to the in house mechanic. I love having a mechanic on staff.

Never mind.

I prefer being an enigma.

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.

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.

I am into year 23.

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.

That is the order I remember, too. You forgot Daves Board. Once the vbb boards came out, it was done.

I am in the new machine camp. It will be money well spent.

just because they dont have insurance does not mean they are not liable or responsible to safeguard your equipment. You need to get after them. At a minimum you need to get a court claim.

I am just curious, but it seems to me that the thread could be preserved, and the title changed by deleting this thread and posting it again. Of course, there may be another reason that this thread has that title.

Ron has been banned on this forum, so he can no longer post here. Maybe one of the other professionals can help you out.

Buy the hot box, and use it until you get the business that will justify the bigger machine. At least, that is how I built my business, but I am not the biggest guy out there.

And someone will come along and take the account, find out it is not all it is cracked up to be, fail at the account, and the "management company" will lose the contract. Thus costing the customer more in the long term, and having poor service as a result.