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"Every parking lot we get to, the blower has a designated spot where he gets out and he'll blow around the sidewalk and the curb, and he'll go around any obstacles or cars and blow it out where the driver can just come through and sweep it up. And then he'll go to the perimeter curb that goes around the whole parking lot and he'll blow that out where the sweeper can sweep that up, and this process expedites the whole system," Freddy says.

Freddy also says having two men to a truck helps keep them honest and working hard, and is also helpful simply because of the large volume of trash in the New Orleans area.

"Wal-Mart down here is like a public landfill. That's where everyone goes to drop off their trash and household garbage, change their oil, drop off doors - you can find anything in a Wal-Mart parking lot in the New Orleans area," Freddy says. "It's really filthy down here."

The addition of GPS systems in his sweeper trucks eight months ago has also contributed to efficiency at Big Easy. Freddy says that although GPS is a hefty investment, it saves money in the long run because of increased worker efficiency and honesty.

"I've noticed a big improvement," he says. "Before, when I would sometimes follow the trucks on my nights off, occasionally I would run into one of them at their house or sweeping a parking lot that's not our parking lot. And that's really a liability issue more than anything, because if they're on someone else's parking lot and damage something, we're held liable for that."