Jeff Martindale is a Texan. It comes as no surprise, then, that his septic and portable restroom company serves a large area, or that he has large ambitions.A self-described workaholic, Martindale, 52, runs a five-man septic and portable restroom operation in East Texas, northeast of Houston and just west of the Louisiana border. His seven-county service area — at 5,899 square miles — is larger than Connecticut, Delaware or Rhode Island.“I don’t care how big I get. There is no limit,” says the owner of Lake Area Septic & Sludge Operations, also known as LASSO, of Jasper, Texas. “We are














