Cleaning companies grapple with business overload

Crews with Bio-One, a franchise decontamination cleanup company with locations in Sarasota, Tampa and Orlando, are the kinds of workers who, based on a bevy of bizarre assignments, have seen it all.

Then came the coronavirus pandemic.  

Now those crews can add some never-done-before tasks to their portfolio: In the past three weeks, they’ve cleaned the insides of buses, taxi cabs and tractor trailers, area Bio-One Owner Robert Reilly says, all to remove any particles of the virus that’s gripped the world. That’s in addition to multiple structures, from a 500,000-square-foot factory to a 1,200-square-foot apartment complex clubhouse.