Locating your Ready-mixed Concrete Business

Posted by Scotty Crist on Oct 18, 2017 11:28:00 AM

 Starting A Trailer Based Ready Mix Company

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.

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Concrete Business Market Study

Posted by Scotty Crist on Oct 18, 2017 11:03:16 AM

Trailer based ready mix start-up requires market research

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.

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Light Transmitting Concrete

Posted by Bruce Christensen on Oct 18, 2017 10:54:08 AM
Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi has developed a concrete block wall that allows light to pass through. It is pretty cool that an ordinary cement mixer, some sand, some gravel and cement will produce something this advanced. It does require well placed optical fibers to move the light from one side of the block to the other, but this is an example of the creative uses that mixers are providing to innovative applications of concrete. Thanks to SmartPlanet for the image
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How to Start a Ready-mixed Concrete Business

Posted by Scotty Crist on Oct 18, 2017 10:46:56 AM

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.

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Cart-Away Concrete Gets High Marks

Posted by Bruce Christensen on Oct 18, 2017 10:37:16 AM

Manufacturing cement mixers for the GSA requires a good "Past Performance Evaluation"

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".

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Portable Concrete Mixer Braking Explained

Posted by Scotty Crist on Oct 18, 2017 10:27:52 AM

Brake actuators provide solid stopping power for a concrete mixing trailer

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.

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Cart-Away CUBE Mixer Fixes Dam

Posted by Bruce Christensen on Oct 18, 2017 10:19:54 AM

Barnard Construction uses big cement mixer on reservoir expansion

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.

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Richard Luxenburg - Concrete Construction

Posted by Bruce Christensen on Oct 18, 2017 10:09:32 AM

Concrete mixers have created a world of solid knowledge

Richard Luxenburg is a professor of Architecture at Anne Arundel Community College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has produced some excellent presentations on concrete construction technology. Because we focus this blog on concrete mixers and cement mixing technology, we thought that this presentation by Mr. Luxenburg would be very educational. He has packed these slides full of great images and technical descriptions.
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Trailer Ball Training

Posted by Scotty Crist on Oct 18, 2017 10:04:11 AM

In concrete mixing trailers the ball makes a difference

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.

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A Ready-mixed Concrete Trailer Location Service

Posted by Jay Elkins on Oct 18, 2017 6:31:03 AM

Worlds biggest list of trailer-based concrete mixer locations!

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.

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