The Snow Plow Business Owner's Guide to Managing Operations

Ryan Pfeifer

By Ryan Pfeifer

Running a snow plow business is tough, right?

From handling all the paperwork to answering the clients to training employees, there’s a whole lot you must be on top of all the time to ensure everything runs smoothly.

But managing the operations of your snow plow business doesn’t have to be all that hard.

If you work smart, you can manage operations without having to work or worry all day and all night long. So here are 5 smart tips to run your business more easily and efficiently.

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1. Use/Hire a Professional to Train Your Employees

 

If your employees don’t know what they’re doing, your business is doomed to fail.

 

Snow plowing tasks involve a lot of complication, which is why you need to ensure that every member of your staff is properly trained to perform their duties.

 

With untrained employees, not only will you have to face unsatisfied clients, but also significantly higher repair and maintenance expenses on your tools and equipment.

 

So you should hire the best expert you can find to train your staff. The individual you hire should have vast experience in the snow plow industry and working in the field.

 

He should know everything about:

 

  • Deicing materials — so he can teach your employees which materials are suitable for which tasks.
  • Plowing tools — so he can teach your employees all they need to know about plows, blowers, spreaders systems, and other tools required for the job.
  • Snow plow trucks — so he can teach your employees how they should drive their trucks to ensure your investment lasts for as long as possible.

 

Once you find an expert, you never have to worry about teaching your employees how to do their job.

 

2. Simplify Dispatching

 

Thanks to snow management software, you can simplify dispatching in no time and without any effort.

 

With a software like Nektyd, you can dispatch hundreds of snow routes to apply ice melt, plow or remove snow according to the weather with real-time updates.

 

But that’s not all. You get a lot more. So let’s take a look at the entire set of features of Nektyd that can help you simplify dispatching with little to no effort on your part:

 

  • Use Anywhere: You can use Nektyd anytime, anywhere. Whether you’re an admin or office worker, you can have full access to all the data on your phone.
  • Live Data and Live Changes: If you change a route during a storm, your workers will automatically be updated within milliseconds.
  • Unlimited Workers and Routes: You get to manage as many crews, routes, and services as you want.

 

So you save time, stress, and potentially even money by simplifying dispatching with the help of an all-in-one snow management software like Nektyd.

3. Automate and Digitize Work Documentation

 

Gone are the days when you had to document everything on paper. All you need now is a reliable snow management software like Nektyd that documents everything in one-click.

 

Since you get to document everything online, you don’t have to worry about losing your register anymore. No more lost pages to add more burden.

 

Everything is saved online to be accessed by you or your employees anytime, anywhere.

 

On top of documenting everything, Netkyd also:

  • Tracks email data.
  • Stores all documents and contracts automatically.
  • Immediately recreates all estimates for a new year.
  • Provides all the data you need to increase your profits.
  • Provides unlimited storage for saving clientele contact details.
  • Offers you templates that you can use to send service requests to your clients.

 

So with Nektyd, you can enhance your brand, reduce stress and liability, and save time.

 

4. Automate Invoicing

Sending invoices is a big hurdle for snow plow companies because it takes a lot of time, especially for big companies who handle hundreds of properties.

 

With snow management software, sending invoices takes little to no effort. In fact, it becomes so easy that invoices don’t even seem like a part of your job anymore. Ha! Wouldn’t that be nice?

 

However, that happens only as long as you use a reliable and extensive snow management software. The software you buy should, at least, have the following 3 features:

 

  • Automatic Billing: It should automatically create all invoices to await your review.
  • Flexibility: It should provide flexible invoicing for your entire snow operations. Whether you bill per inch, bag, gallon, tonne, T & M or anything else.
  • Unlimited Automation: It should automate every type of invoice you need to bill.

 

Oh, did I mention that Nektyd can save you 90% of your time spent on invoicing? I am not kidding. You can get a demo with us and find out for yourself.

 

5. Track Your Inventory With Software

Monitoring material and inventory usage for each storm, property, and service is crucial to understanding how much each of your snow removal services cost.

 

However, keeping track of every item in your inventory is no piece of cake. The amount of work involved can often overwhelm even the toughest people.

 

Luckily, you neither have to manage every item in your inventory nor go through the trouble of finding someone reliable to take on this (mentally) herculean task.

 

All you need is a reliable snow management software that keeps track of everything for you. A software that offers you, at least, these 3 features:

  1. Track Everything: The software should allow you to track everything — from what items you have in your inventory to how many of them were used on each working day to the amount of money spent on items, workers, and services.
  2. Automatic Tracking: It should track everything automatically — remember, the reason you’re paying for the software in the first place is to make your job less stressful.
  3. Unlimited Amounts of Tracking: The software should allow you to track as many items as you want.

 

To sum it up, you can run your snow plow business a whole lot more easily and efficiently if you hire an expert to train your employees and use a snow management software like Nektyd.

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