Bottom line, you need the best street sweeper for your street sweeping program. Whether you are a small municipality, regional airport or contractor buying your first street sweeper or if you are a large city, airport or conglomerate buying your 100th street sweeper, we want to understand your street sweeping needs to find the best solution for you.

We don’t pigeonhole you to force you to buy our product

A pigeonhole is a neat category that fails to reflect actual complexities. In the street sweeping industry, pigeonholing is when a sweeping manufacturer tries to force you to buy their street sweeper, even if it doesn’t solve your street sweeping need or fit in your street sweeping program. Why do some manufacturers try this tactic? Sometimes it’s because it’s all they do. There are manufacturers who only make truck-mounted sweepers. There are some who only produce compact sweepers. Some manufacturers only make mechanical street sweepers. Some only regenerative air. We’ve heard and seen horror stories of competing street sweeper manufacturers who sold the wrong type of sweeper, and the results are wasted time, money — often taxpayer money — and energy. This isn’t good for the industry or its reputation.

We like to listen to learn about your street sweeping program challenges. When you speak with any of our Bucher Municipal North America product specialists or sales representatives, our first question is, “What do you sweep 80% of the time?” Why is this our first question?

We want to understand what your sweeping application is to determine if we’re a good fit. If we are a good fit, and most of the time we have a sweeping solution that fits, then we’ll move on to options, delivery times and the rest. Because if we’re not a good fit for your sweeper needs, there’s no need to talk price. We will refer you to a person or company we think is a good fit. We like to keep the process simple and transparent. It’s all about what you — or your municipality, your company, your airport, etc. — needs. We’re confident we have a solution for your most difficult environmental cleaning conditions. We have sweepers for you in every size and technology. We manufacture pure vacuum, mechanical and regenerative air street sweepers. We have truck-mounted, mid-vac and compact sweepers.

Electric avenue

Electric street sweepers are here and may fit for your street sweeping program. Electric sweepers are not for every municipality or contractor. All-electric street sweepers are an option for environmentally conscious municipalities and their communities. Bucher’s first all-electric sweeper in North America was the CityCat V20e (2.6³) compact sweeper. At the 2023 PWX Show in San Diego, we debuted our all-electric mid-vac CityCat VR50e sweeper with a 7.5-cubic-yard hopper. Both compact and mid-vac electric sweepers are good solutions for not only municipalities but also airports, health care complexes, university campuses, warehouse facilities and more.

Compact street sweepers

Our CityCat V20 and V20e utilize efficient pure-vacuum technology and are available in diesel and all-electric.

These compacts feature:

• High maneuverability and articulated steering.
• A 2.6 yd³ usable volume debris hopper.
• A 9-foot sweeping width.
• A 112-gallon water volume.
• A two-year full machine warranty.

Best of all, there’s no CDL required to operate them.

Mid-vac street sweepers

Our CityCat 5006 and VR50e sweepers also utilize efficient pure-vacuum technology and are available in diesel and all-electric.

They feature:

• Hydrostatic four-wheel steering.
• A 9-foot 6-inches turning radius.
• A 7.3-cubic-yard usable volume debris hopper.
• A 235-gallon water tank.
• An 11-foot 5-inches sweeping width.
• A variable dump height up to 61 inches with a tipping angle of 51 inches.
• A two-year full machine warranty.

Like our compacts, no CDL is required.

Truck-mounted street sweepers

We make three types of truck-mounted sweepers: pure vacuum, mechanical and regenerative air. These chassis-mounted workhorses provide power, capacity and can be driven on highways.

Mechanical street sweepers

Our “Bulldozer of Street Sweepers,” the MaxPowa E35m single-engine mechanical sweeper, won the Contractor’s Choice Silver award for the last two years. The E35’s variable dump height 4.5-cubic-yard hopper reaches up to 12 feet 6 inches, so it can dump into on-ground dumpsters or dump truck beds. Municipalities and contractors use mechanical sweepers for concrete millings, chunks of asphalt, broken pavement, mud and a variety of construction and paving debris.

Regenerative air street sweepers

Our regenerative air sweeper, the single-engine MaxPowa R65, features an energy-efficient fan system and direct heavy-duty coupled motor, all with no belts to adjust. The R65 has a 12-foot sweep path with aggressive “unhanded” 44-foot leading arm digger-type gutter brooms that provide the ability to sweep/scrub in front of a 93-inch pickup head. Regenerative air sweepers work best on flat surface ways, but lose performance on crowned roads.

Pure vacuum street sweepers

Our industry-standard, pure vacuum sweeper is the MaxPowa V65, which is available in single- and twin-engine versions. The V65 has an 8.5-cubic-yard, 9-gauge stainless steel constructed hopper with a 410-gallon water tank. Our pure vacuum sweeper has “unhanded” sweeper gear components; an energy-efficient fan system; direct drive with fluid coupler; step-up gearbox transmission; and no belts to adjust. The V65 has a 12-foot sweep path with “straight inlet” vacuum. The sweeper is PM 10/2.5 certified. We also offer, as standard, a top-loading catch basin cleaner that rotates 270 degrees for complete work coverage. Bucher uses high-pressure water in the sweeping process, which gives us the advantage of first pass sweeping. The combination of sweeping brushes and high-pressure water makes quick work of the dirtiest and toughest sweeping challenges. Pure vacuum services are best for street sweeping on flat or crowned roads.

Peace of mind factory warranty

Our truck-mounted sweepers come with our best in industry — two years or 2,000 hours — “No Hassle, All-Inclusive” full machine warranty. There is also a lifetime warranty on the debris hopper and water tank.

Which street sweeper is right for you?

Still have questions about which sweeper or sweepers are best for your street sweeper program? We offer an industry report — educational, not a sales document — to help you make the best-informed choice when purchasing a sweeper. The “5 Things You MUST Know BEFORE Buying a Street Sweeper” report is available for free on our website: www.buchermunicipal.com/us/en.

About Bucher Municipal North America Inc.

Cities and contractors turn to Bucher Municipal when they feel frustrated and stuck being pigeonholed into cleaning their streets with no other options while failing to meet stormwater compliance. We free cities from this trap of one size fits all by supplying and supporting a full product line to fit every sweeping challenge better than any other manufacturer on Earth. 

Bucher gets you unstuck with first pass sweeping = Endless Sweeping Solutions.

Bucher Municipal North America, Inc.

105 Motorsports Road

Mooresville, NC 28115

(704) 658-1333

www.buchermunicipal.com/us/en

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