When Maxwell and Olen McCutcheon started pumping septic tanks and hauling steel-mill waste in 1947 in Pennsylvania, they owned just one small septic service truck. Today, the company they founded – now known as McCutcheon Enterprises Inc. (MEI) in Apollo – is one of the state’s largest industrial cleaners, employing 125 people and running 275 vehicles, including 21 vacuum trucks and nine vacuum trailers.As its name implies, this well-diversified company now provides many more services than it did a half century ago, ranging from industrial cleaning and emergency response services to septic pumping, roll-off containers, site remediation and a host
