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Watkins secures the Crust Buster to one of the company’s two nearly identical 2023 International HV607 service trucks built out by Imperial Industries and carrying a National Vacuum Equipment 4310 blower.
Joe Watkins says he basically grew up in the passenger seat of a septic truck. It was either do that or hang out with his mom, sisters and baby brother. “We lived out in the country and didn’t have any neighbors,” he says. “So I went with my dad six days a week through the...