The pumping industry has come a long way in the 40 years Jerry and Chris Jakubowicz have been running mom-and-pop outfit Rural Septic Service. When they started out, Jerry was driving a 1964 Ford carrying a 1,500-gallon boiler tank and pumpouts were $20 for holding tanks and $25 for septic tanks.
Back in those days, Jerry couldn’t have envisioned ordering a $285,000 custom-built Peterbilt rig that could handle an average of 10 tanks he pumps per day around his home base in tiny Boyd, Wisconsin, population 603. But that’s exactly what he did, traveling a little more than an hour east
