What is even more impressive is watching your guys come in at the end of shift like Tom and I did and seeing them dumping garbage, washing the trucks and parking them back like that for the next shift. I have a hard time getting anyone to just simply lock the doors when they get back, much less clean the trucks.
I asked Scott to make this video in response to the "garage doctor" and those who might be inclined to believe anything he says.
Basically, if Jim's mouth is moving, he is lying.
If his eyes roll from left to right without speaking, he is implying a lie.
If he remains silent when asked a question he is insinuating a lie.
About five years ago, in 2008, I made friends with both Jim and Scott at Scott's roundtable. At that time I spent a lot of time on the phone with them. Most of my time on the phone with Scott was accompanied by background noise of power washers going. Sometimes he was cleaning a garage, in the springtime it was the professional ball stadium, other times it was something else. But 90% of my conversations with Scott were accompanied by washing in the background.
During that time there were a lot of conversations with Jim Gamble. During 2009 we spoke all the time. Not once did I ever hear anything in the background. Not once. I know he was cleaning garages at times. As a matter of fact he cleaned between 4 and 8 garages that year. He had all his work for the year up on his board at his house. He was very proud of how much money he was making, which, at the time, was about half what Scott made that year and more than I made that year.
I was in conversation with both of them when the "trouble" between them started.
Jim had never had any exposure in parking garage magazines. Scott, landed the opportunity to represent our industry in a parking magazine article.
Thinking that Jim was his friend, Scott asked Jim if he had any pictures that he could use in the article since it had not been Scott's practice to take pictures of his work and his pictures for submission were low quality and limited. Scott thought Jim's pictures would look better for the article. This wasn't to promote the pictures as his own, but to educate the parking garage community on the need for regular powerwashing for ALL our benefit.
Jim immediately became paranoid and called me. He stated that he was going to give Scott the pictures, but he didn't trust him so he was going to "watermark" the pictures so that Scott couldn't claim they were his own. I told him Scott wasn't that kind of person. Eventually, I don't think any of the pictures were used, but Jim, blind with jealousy that Scott had authored an article in a parking garage magazine began a multi year crusade to discredit Scott, and further exaggerate his own income and experience. Here is Scott's article here:
http://www.parkingtoday.com/articledetails.php?id=839
Now, compare that with Jim's eventual article in the same magazine a year later:
http://www.parkingtoday.com/articledetails.php?id=974
It's pretty easy to see that one contractor, Scott, is simply providing information to the parking garage community about cleaning garages. Jim, on the other hand, spends the golden opportunity he has to advance our industry and instead chooses to use it to make everyone but him look like they don't know what they are doing.
Now, back to the videos. Fast forward four years. The Lord has blessed Scott immensely for his hard work and determination. At this point Jim's annual billing couldn't even pay Scott's fuel and insurance bill and Scott's net exceeds Jim's gross. That is what eventually happens with honest people. They succeed.
Because of Jim's partner in failure of the high priced reclaim myth, Jim Cooney, who occasionally cleans things in Ron's city, and because of the jealousy of some lowballing PWNA board members Ron has also been the victim of the same kinds of attacks.
If you think Scott's operation is impressive, you should see Ron's. There is something humbling about seeing 13+ rigs pulling up to fuel up from all directions just for one shift! Then it is even more impressive to go out the next day and ride around with Ron and visit worker after worker after worker cleaning restaurants in the early morning shift. Or watching Tim (one of Ron's salespeople) do a demo where the shiny demo rig had a leak and Ron told him to go get another one that didn't leak and Tim got back 20 minutes later with a totally different shiny new demo rig!
The funny thing is, Ron doesn't care. He thinks it's all funny and ridiculous and the morons who keep making these kinds of claims have been the source of many nights of belly splitting laughter between me, Ron and my son.
The fact is, I reported a long time ago the Jim was a fake and a liar. I also pointed out that Scott was nothing like what Jim portrays him to be. Time is proving everything I've said and will continue to prove my words.
The facts are as follows:
Scott has cleaned more garages in the past five years than Jim has in the past 20.
Scott has been blessed financially for his hard work and his continued advancement of the powerwashing community without putting all other contractors down.
Scott has posted these videos as proof his his success.
Jim has produced nothing more than videos of subcontractors that he pays pennies on the dollar to do the work.
Jim insinuates how much money he makes, and claims to have posted a big "check" somewhere which means nothing. Any of us could post huge checks we have made on the rare large job.
Jim continuously puts all the other contractors down as he did in his article.
That is all Jim is. A part time realtor/landlord (with one rental) who scares customers into paying ridiculous prices for garage cleaning and then, for the 5 or so garages he contracts each year, he pays the same rates or less to subcontractors who could have saved the cities and states a lot of money if they had just given them the contracts to begins with bypassing the middleman, Jim.
That's all he is. A middleman.
Scott, on the other hand, is a contractor who represents our industry well and should make us all proud.