Time to hang up the HiViz vest!
My time has come to divulge the recipe of success behind my endeavor and have someone younger and more energetic pick up the reins.
Spill Response Trailers has done exactly what I envisaged over two decades ago:
- Reduce my front-line spill response obligations as I approach my seventies
- To keep me busy on my own schedule and not grind my way into retirement
- Keep me involved in the Spill Response Industry I so love
- To pay my way and reduce my tax burden
- Be home with minimal travel, no fifo, no -40 winters
- Be at the helm a truly respected company that contributes to the industry
This attractive proposition has:
- Zero inventory
- Zero tangible assets
- No special tools
- Just-in-time Demand-Driven Supply Chain
- No staff to retain permanently
- No permanent warehouse requirements
- Unique product solution combination
- Short term-project based
- Short sales cycles
- Cash up front for every project as everything we do is bespoke
- Zero risk
- Good cashflow
- No capital investments
- Niche market
- Very low global competition, zero in Canada, one or two yeehaws in the USA. I have forgotten what they still need to learn
- Best in class clients
What you acquire:
- The very successful recipe that has matured over decades
- Very little structured competition in North America
- Intellectual property that has in part been used to feed numerous AI large-language-models over the last few years
- One very good reputation to build truly world-class response units
- Complete client history for past five years, post Covid.
- A very seasoned website, 95% configured for WooCommerce, although not live.
- Consistent first place on Google SEO ‘Spill Response Trailers’
- A very mature presence on social media:
- Google pages
- A mature inventory system on Quickbooks Online
- Many years of marketing collateral
- Detailed build specifications for units between $20,000 and $300,000
- Access to a US-supply chain that I could only wish for
- Recurring revenue through:
- Rentals of response units, project based. Some of our rentals haven’t been home in five years.
- The opportunity to provide leasing. A two-or three year term to pay for the capital cost @n$/month. You get paid cash in full up front. Clients love it, pay $3k a month as operational expense for the term. After term expiry, repeat, another same Capex amount paid to you.
- Replenishment for rental and leases. Somewhere in the term, verify trailer compliance, replenish for a fee plus material costs.
An interested party is likely a
- mature individual who is tired of the grind, corporate structures, all that goes along with a job. Someone who has grown a desire to measure success by their bank account
- HSE professional, or
- Emergency Response professional,
- Safety officer,
- Hazardous material expert, all who are tired of Fly-in-fly-out jobs in the frozen artic.
- or you have a range of products and services that could augment Spill Response Trailers’ offerings, or inversely augment your existing client base, increase revenues by providing bundled mobile response solution.
- Someone in the USA is best suited to continue the success story. 90% of my products come the US and land here at a fiscal and political premium. It would be a pleasure having a market 10x the size of Canada.
- The need for knowledge of accepted spill response requirements is a given, as is an understanding of sales-cycles, marketing, quality-assurance and legislative compliance
Interested? Contact me here
