In 1952 Clayton Williams began to think that pumping septic tanks might be a more lucrative line of work than his current occupation, painting barns.In those days it was mainly the rich who had septic tanks in rural Kentucky. He put a 500-gallon tank and a sludge pump on a 1952 1-ton single-axle truck and started going door to door to drum up business.And then it occurred to him that going south for the winter sounded like a better idea than driving around on Kentucky’s icy rural roads. So for the first few winters, he took the business to Florida
