Depending on the sort of jobs you seek, you will need equipment ranging from a sturdy snow shovel to a mechanical snowblower to a substantial truck with a heavy plow. A snow shovel is quite portable, but a snowblower is much less so and will probably have to be delivered by truck which has to be able to get through the snow on the streets. Will you bring your own equipment, or use whatever you find at your client’s location? Using your client’s equipment simplifies your operation in many ways: You won’t have to buy a snowblower; you will not be responsible for maintaining it and providing gas; and you will not have to transport it from your home to your customer’s property. But, you can rely on this thing for long time. Since you start this service, you at least have a snowblower.
In some cases, the commercial snowblowers can be quite expensive. You may need to pay back the cost over an entire season, or even over more than one season. A heavy-duty machine can easily cost $1,000, reaching to several thousand dollars for the most powerful devices. A commercial snowplow—just the plow, not the truck—can cost several thousand dollars. Then you’ll need a sufficiently heavy truck, with four-wheel drive and a power takeoff to control the movement of the plow. Investigate buying used equipment from a reliable dealer who will offer a warranty and provide service. Based on that case, you have to think or calculate the expenses first or think the snowblowers before you go on to do this job or service.