jlpressure
JL Pressure Washing
What kinds of things do you do to cut down on waste? Where are you losing money? How do you organize things so you dont break equipment or have to buy some of the same things over and over.
I try to stay on top of waste and loss, but darn if it doesnt happen. I am cracking down on my crews again, to much loss and waste is going on.
For example. We use a lot of Sunbelt lifts. Well if you dont fill them up with fuel after you are done using them, Sunbelt charges $8 a gallon. Saw this happening to a lot of my reantal lifts last year and cracked down, told my foreman and crew to fill them. They were doing good, but recently I have been getting charged again, they will throw 5 gallons in, but it needs 8 gallon, just got a charge of $15 & $77 on two lifts. I was pissed, this isnt the first time recently. I tore into my foreman, he said he put 5 gallon in each, Duh, obviously it wasnt full. Told him he is going to have a pay cut if these dont get filled EVERY time
We have rakes, brooms, shovels, poles for brushes, leaf blowers. We carry a ton of stuff in our trucks. Well they get thrown in the back of trucks and the next thing you know, theres tons of crap thrown on top of them, rakes and brooms get bent and busted.
We I installed PVC tubes like the land scapers to put all the rakes etc in them so they arent laying in the back of my trucks getting busted. I come in the other day and most of the tubes are empty. WTF. Yup, cracked the whip that day
Parts and tools, no one can find crap. I watching my guys going from truck to truck looking for a fricking Oring or a wrench. I have all kinds of tool boxes, draw boxes etc on the trailers and no one can find crap.
Last week I went in and tore apart trucks and shops. I have told these guys to do the same at least once a month, they do superficial clean up. I spent hours with 4 crew members and found Quick connects, etc etc spread out EVERYWHERE. Hell, found 20 adjustable wrenches, 10 pry bars, etc etc etc.
I am not going to lay off on these guys, they are costing me money. Arggggg
What kind of things do you all do to cut down on waste??
I try to stay on top of waste and loss, but darn if it doesnt happen. I am cracking down on my crews again, to much loss and waste is going on.
For example. We use a lot of Sunbelt lifts. Well if you dont fill them up with fuel after you are done using them, Sunbelt charges $8 a gallon. Saw this happening to a lot of my reantal lifts last year and cracked down, told my foreman and crew to fill them. They were doing good, but recently I have been getting charged again, they will throw 5 gallons in, but it needs 8 gallon, just got a charge of $15 & $77 on two lifts. I was pissed, this isnt the first time recently. I tore into my foreman, he said he put 5 gallon in each, Duh, obviously it wasnt full. Told him he is going to have a pay cut if these dont get filled EVERY time
We have rakes, brooms, shovels, poles for brushes, leaf blowers. We carry a ton of stuff in our trucks. Well they get thrown in the back of trucks and the next thing you know, theres tons of crap thrown on top of them, rakes and brooms get bent and busted.
We I installed PVC tubes like the land scapers to put all the rakes etc in them so they arent laying in the back of my trucks getting busted. I come in the other day and most of the tubes are empty. WTF. Yup, cracked the whip that day
Parts and tools, no one can find crap. I watching my guys going from truck to truck looking for a fricking Oring or a wrench. I have all kinds of tool boxes, draw boxes etc on the trailers and no one can find crap.
Last week I went in and tore apart trucks and shops. I have told these guys to do the same at least once a month, they do superficial clean up. I spent hours with 4 crew members and found Quick connects, etc etc spread out EVERYWHERE. Hell, found 20 adjustable wrenches, 10 pry bars, etc etc etc.
I am not going to lay off on these guys, they are costing me money. Arggggg
What kind of things do you all do to cut down on waste??
