A couple of years ago, a customer asked Sharon Bonner if there was a way to reduce the high costs associated with transporting and disposing of mud spoil generated by hydroexcavating. As the owner of Bradley Tanks Inc. (BTI), a waste-hauling and frac-tank-rental company, Bonner did some research and found a solution: air-excavation technology that produces dry spoil that can be reused on site.Bonner was immediately intrigued by the technology. But there was a sticking point: No other company in the U.S. had purchased the equipment, known as the Dino Series of suction-excavation trucks, built by MTS GmbH, a German
