Location, location, location. The first rule in opening a business, right? Well, it’s even true for a trailer based concrete yard, just not in the same way it’s true for, say, a coffee shop. You want your coffee shop in a well trafficked area where people will see it often; like the main drag in town. It’s a bit different for a Cart-Away concrete mixing trailer location.
Perhaps you’ve used a concrete mixing trailer to make a small pour around your house. Maybe you’ve used one in connection with your job. However you came into contact with trailer based concrete, a lot of you are talking about selling it yourself.
Maybe you are in the construction field and have used ready mix in a concrete mixer trailer. Perhaps you’re a DYI-er that’s used a short load of concrete for a home project. Or, you might have a current business and have decided to add a new profit center. Whatever the reason, you are thinking about trailered concrete mixers as a way to turn a profit. For over twenty years Cart-Away has been helping people decide if selling concrete at retail is right for them, and in that course of time we’ve come up with five steps to help customers be successful.
Cart-Away Concrete Systems, Inc is a GSA (Government Services Administration) contract holder. This agreement renews every few years and this time we were required to pay an independent firm to survey customers to determine our "Past Performance".
I’ve posted about towing a cement mixer and the various types of couplers. In the larger models of concrete mixing trailers (Cart-Away’s CMT-100 and CMK-175, Trailer Haul's MT125, Concrete Titan, etc) I’ve mentioned the brake actuator, but never explained what that does and why one doesn’t see them on the smaller mixers. Smaller cement mixers, sometimes called portable contractor mixers, vary in size but are rarely large enough to require brakes.
The Los Vaqueros Reservoir in California is being expanded. The reservoir's capacity will grow from 100,000 acre-feet to 160,000 acre-feet. The dam will increase in height by 34 feet. The project will cost $120 million and will be completed in 2012.
As I said in another post, one yard mixer trailers weigh about 7000 pounds when fully loaded. Cart-Away Concrete Systems even makes a mixing trailer that has a 10,000 pound GVW (the MixKing). The towing hitch, brake actuator, and towing ball must all be rated for that weight.
We receive calls everyday from potential ready-mix customers looking for a place to get some concrete in a trailer. The Cart-Away websites seem to be a magnet for this type of call, and that is exciting! These calls are very rewarding to us because it tells us that there are thousands of people wanting concrete in a trailer.
