The news is reporting that New York City is holding its annual snow drill and that snow is expected as soon as next week. “The Department of Sanitation’s fleet consists of more than 2,000 rear-loading collection trucks, 450 mechanical brooms and 689 salt and sand spreaders, housed in their 59 district garages across the city.” I wish they had included Shovler in the snow drill. The app already has hundreds of snow shovelers ready in New York City. We will hopefully …
There have been lots of news reports lately about snowfall throughout North America, which is definitely good news for snow shoveling apps like Shovler. The majority of the snowfall though has been, and is expected to be in Canada and the Midwest USA. According to weather.com, snowfall accumulation is expected to reach nearly a foot in some places, but the majority of places will receive about 2-3 inches . This has led us to receive many questions about where exactly are we …
At Shovler, we are obsessed with finding out the healthiest and most efficient way to shovel snow. We have compiled below some of the best snow shoveling tips we developed through personal experience and lots of internet research. If a job is dangerous, don’t do it. Any job that seems dangerous for whatever reason, such as a driveway being extremely steep or just the amount of snowfall being more than you can handle, you should cancel on the Shovler app. There …
We have put together a list of the competitors in the snow shoveling app industry. Snow removal apps included are Shovler, Plowz & Mowz, TaskEasy, Eden App, and Lawn Guru. We have excluded apps that are only in Canada such as TouchPlow, SnowMowr and MowSnowPros. We also did not include any apps that have not been released or are not functional based on app store reviews. What you will notice, is that Shovler has 3 major competitive advantages relative to the other apps: …
Thank you for your interest in becoming a snow shoveler on the Shovler platform! Below outlines the steps required and it should take less than 10-15 minutes complete. While signed in as a shoveler, go to Settings –> My Info & Settings, and then hit the Connect with Stripe button. You need to sign up to Stripe so that payments can be made straight to you from the user’s credit card. Stripe is the same platform that many other similar services like …
One of the most frequent questions we get is why does Shovler only focus on snow removal and not diversify into other businesses such as lawn care like other mobile apps have done. The main reason is that we believe you have to stay focused on one problem if you want to be successful. Once you start trying to do lawn care too you lose focus on snow removal. Is the snow removal industry large enough to be worthwhile to solely focus on? …
Before you try to shovel snow by yourself, remember that the dangers of shoveling snow are real especially for anyone over the age of 55. A study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy looked at data from 1990 to 2006 and found that there were 1,647 fatalities from cardiac-related injuries associated with shoveling snow. Cardiologist Barry Franklin, director of preventative cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation at William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan and an expert in the hazardous effects of snow removal, …
Weather reports are starting to forecast snow as early as this Saturday in certain parts of the country. Even though it is already the middle of November and we haven’t had any significant snow fall to date, this winter is still predicted to be one filled with lots of snow. In case you missed it, due to El Nina, this winter is expected to be bad. Or I should say: Good for snow shovelers! You can read a more detailed snowfall …