A year ago, in the September issue of Pumper, I suggested adding industrial vacuum loading services for contractors whose traditional residential work was slowing along with the economy.The economic news isn’t brighter this year. Construction remains down in some parts of the country, while the entire U.S. economy has suffered through continuing bad news from financial institutions and the relentless march upward of fuel prices. As of this writing, diesel fuel is approaching $5 per gallon and economists are throwing around a term you might recall from the 1970s: stagflation. The “stag’’ is an abbreviation for stagnation in growth, while
