Is it a school bus with a vacuum tank or a vacuum truck that can haul a bunch of students on a field trip? Does the bus driver take kids to school, pump a few tanks and then return to pick the kids up when the school bell rings?These are a few of the questions I asked myself when proud owner Dale Wicklund sent me a photo of his unusual rig, a sawed-off 1981 Chevrolet school bus. The subject on his email was “World’s Ugliest Pumper Truck,’’ my first clue this was a working septic service truck.And work with it,

















