Published March 2007

Passing the Torch

By Sharon Verbeten

If he were still alive, Merrill Pollard would be proud to see the shiny white, blue and black Pollard Pumping trucks trekking the rural roads not far from Omaha, Neb. Fifty years after Pollard started the business, his grandson, Jason Magwire, has not only brought the company into the 21st century; he’s continued his grandfather’s passion for welding by building the company’s own service truck fleet. It’s a family labor of love, strengthened by steel and bolstered by what Magwire calls “50 years of trial and error.”