How to make money plowing during winter seasons. Plowing during the winter is a great way to make money when you do landscaping work. You won’t be making money how you normally do in spring fall and summer time.
Step One: You should start by getting contracts around all seasons because contracts get taken quickly and you have to watch for them a lot and place bids that are high to make money. But not too high to where they may look for cheaper people and push you off.
Step Two: Is to save money from the working seasons to buy a plow and maybe some extra trucks in case break downs. You should also buy some good plows that are somewhat newer and reliable and maybe some extra parts incase they break from use.
Step Three: Be prepared before winter season comes and if you have salt contracts make sure you have salt ready and all trucks prepared with maintenance already done to them. You will want to make sure you have all maintenance done if they need maintenance or may need maintenance so you have less chance of having issues.
Step Four: Hire workers that want to work because they can help a lot. Hiring workers are costly but in the long run it is more efficient. Workers allow you to get more work to do to make more money. If you get a lot of big snow storms and you were doing plowing by yourself you could lose contracts. When you have 10 places that have to be plowed a lot you can’t do it all yourself fast and doing the side walks so you could split up the work to be done with the employees to have it done faster.
Step Five: Have back up lights and experienced people working so they don’t crash when working and or speed and don’t miss spot and then you have to go back and plow it over again.
Myles Dixon 