Leverage Competitor's Equipment and Materials for Free Dirt

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How to make Money From your Competition

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The presenter demonstrates the immediate benefit of a cooperative alliance by showcasing a large CAT 312D L excavator belonging to J.S. Stewart Excavators. He explains that he was given the keys to use the excavator to load his trucks with approximately 500 cubic yards of excess dirt from the construction site. This arrangement saves the excavator owner the cost of hauling the dirt off-site, and the presenter gets the dirt for free, eliminating the need to purchase it from a gravel pit. The process involves driving to the job site, operating the excavator, and loading a red dump truck.

Goal: Acquire free excess dirt and use a competitor's equipment for loading, saving costs for both parties.

Tools and materials

CAT 312D L Excavator Caterpillar — Loading excess dirt into trucks
Dump Truck — Transporting the acquired dirt
Excess Dirt N/A — Material for landscaping projects

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example work with your competition you see this excavator right behind me that's not mine that's JS Stewart if you look closely on the side of that that's JS Stewart's excavator but I met with him he handed me the keys to his excavator told me to go ahead and use that to load up all of the dirt that he has on this site I'm in this neighborhood working just a few miles down the road a way you work with your competition is you form Alliance as I recently interviewed a person for the landscape business pro and he talked he was a prestigious home builder just doing the same thing that we're doing behind us building these multi-million doll homes and what he did in his area is he got together with 10 other builders and formed a builder Alliance what we've done in the Twin Cities metropolitan area is we've formed an excavators Alliance there's about 36 of us that work together to help each other out this is a prime example because I'm working in this neighborhood because I need all of this dirt what you see behind me it's about 500 cubic yards of dirt that this excavator is sitting on and then behind the building back there is another you know the rest of it because I need that and he needs to get rid of it well guess how that works he's giving me this dirt he's giving me his excavator to use to go go ahead and load up my trucks so I can haul it away because when this long story short this guy Jim Stewart with JS Stewart is getting paid by the Builder to haul all this dirt off site if he can hand me the keys to the excavator and say go ahead and take it away and I bring my own trucks in and I haul that dirt off he's saving himself thousands of dollars on this one job site alone I'm saving thousands of dollars because now I'm not buying this dirt at a gravel pit 15 Mi down the road I'm getting it for free 1.8 miles down the road less than 2 miles away I'm saving time and money that's what happens when you form alliances and I want you to start to get your head wrapped around the idea working with your competition and not against them so let's go in here and let's see how this excavator runs I've actually been in it actually been loading my trucks with it watch me run into the side of this brand new house wouldn't that be something this is a cat it's like the guys are enjoying the radio I hate radio can't concentrate so what I'm doing with his excavator is I'm actually using it and sure nothing's behind me I don't like how they're loading dirt by the it it's…

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