Showing posts with label sweepers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweepers. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

PMG on Rainbow Duty

If you’ve ever wondered who cleans up after the annual charity Rainbow Run held each June in Bristol where brightly coloured powder paint and tickertape is thrown at participants as they complete the 5k course – we’ve got the answer – it’s us!


A PMG sweeper team is on hand ready to spring into action when the day’s event is over. This year 3,100 people including Bristol born comedian Justin Lee Collins turned up to combine having fun with raising money for the Children’s Hospice South West charity. Their pristine white outfits were transformed into individual works of art as trained marshals daubed powder paint on them at five different stations along the route. 



The event raised over £130,000 and took place on the picturesque Clifton Downs.  But it wasn’t just the runners and walkers that ended up daubed in rainbow colours. Along the route roads and grass were also sprinkled with the 100% natural, non-toxic and biodegradable paint which is where we came in. It was our job to sweep up the tickertape and jet wash everything down to make sure that all traces of paint were gone. The contents of the sweeper were returned to be processed at our specialist on site recycling facility.



In her thank you message to us, enclosing this lovely photograph, Children’s Hospice South West Events Fundraiser Emma McKeown wrote: “Team PMG - thank you so much for your energy, enthusiasm and continued support of Rainbow Run. We had a fantastic day with over 3100 participants and we hope to raise over £130,000 from the event which is just incredible.  Your driver was fab as always and helped ensure we left the site clean and tidy after the thousands descended on us!”

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

PMG Welcomes a Lady Driver



As a result of landing several big new contracts PMG has appointed three new drivers to our expanding team including our first female sweeper driver!



Michele Clarke is based at our Swindon operation and will be dealing with customers in the Swindon area. Gary Simmonds joins the Bristol sweeping team and Mario Vurovec will be driving tankers, sweepers and working in the recycling plant.


We extend a warm welcome to them all.

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

PMG Services Fleet on the Move


We’ve opened a new 1.7 acre transport yard in St. Philips, Bristol.


Our Albert Road depot has become a bit congested since the installation of our waste recycling plant, so it made sense for us to separate the waste management and transport operations of the business.


So we’ve invested in a new yard just a few minutes down the road where all of our vehicles will now be based making everyone’s lives a lot easier. Over the past week we’ve moved our 35 sweepers, 6 tankers and other assorted vehicles to their new home which was the former Sita site in Cole Road. 


Commented operations manager Stuart Knight: “As our recycling business has grown the number of vehicle movements in and out of the Albert Road facility meant that we were experiencing heavy congestion. It made sense to invest in a second yard for our own growing fleet of vehicles to give both operations more space and I know our own drivers are pleased for the extra space”.