LaVerne Charlet Reflects on Long Career, Growing Industry
After spending about 45 years manufacturing and marketing vacuum equipment for the liquid waste industry, I am retiring as owner of LC Tanks Inc. I want to thank hundreds of customers, friends, suppliers and associates for their support over the years. I am going to single out five entrepreneurs who influenced my life and the liquid waste industry.
In the late 1960s, Leland Pearson and his brother started a company that built liquid manure spreaders using vacuum pumps. He approached me with his idea of putting vacuum tanks on trucks for pumping septic tanks
