Residential snow removal
Fits best: an outdoor operator who already owns a truck and wants winter income.
Pros
- ✓Season contracts paid up front
- ✓Customers come back on a schedule
- ✓High margin per job
- ✓No special license to start
Cons
- !Weather decides your revenue; 3 a.m. starts
- !Small tickets need volume and tight routes
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 125 visits a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 250 visits a month in season. Add holiday lighting install for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Run as the winter half of a yard maintenance brand.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Run as the winter half of a yard maintenance brand.
The details
- Vehicle
- Plow truck (plow $6K–10K on your truck)
- Repeat customers
- High
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Nov–Mar
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Season contracts; natural winter pair for yard maintenance crews.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (250), times 4 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.