Editorial Articles

New technology can help pumping contractors streamline billing, fleet management and routing. Here are several billing, fleet management, routing, insurance and financing...

Owner Bobby Coia added this red, black and white 2012 Peterbilt 337 septic service truck to serve his small family-run pumping company....

Fleet tracking program leads to fuel savingsProblem: Valet Waste faced fleet challenges that required a more advanced GPS tracking system to...

Stellar sliding-job hookliftThe Slider20-S hooklift from Stellar Industries has a 20,000-pound capacity, 72-degree dump angle and can handle container variations of 10...

If you own a business and have children, sooner or later you, your spouse and your kids will have to face a...

In February 2014, the National Association of Wastewater Technicians  (NAWT) will present the prestigious NAWT Excellence in Service Award to an individual...

US Fleet Tracking’s return to this year’s Pumper & Cleaner Environ-mental Expo International provided an opportunity to introduce visitors to its live...

During the 2013 Pumper and Cleaner Environmental Expo in February, Bruce Fox, of Allied Septic Services, gave a presentation on the challenges...

John, a seasoned manager, is growing weary of receiving daily email complaints from employees and occasionally a customer. They are not ordinary...

Winning an award often culminates in a presentation ceremony after which the certificate or statuette is placed inside a cabinet to collect...

The Rhode Island “setback” bill (5425-A) seeks to standardize wetlands and onsite system regulations by authorizing the state Department of Environmental Management...

This feature in Pumper reports noteworthy conversations that take place at the Pumper Discussion Forum, an online forum for industry professionals found...

Pumping professionals frequently talk to me about the challenge of maintaining the customer service values of a bygone time in today’s harried...

By his own admission, Judge Berk is an old-school septic pumper – the kind of guy who prefers to avoid debt by...

As the construction industry suffered in 2009, it pulled Jason LaChance and his excavation company right down with it, forcing him to...

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“My see” were the words my two-year-old daughter, Maggie, used as she extended her arms toward an older woman sitting in the...

When you look at the cover of Pumper this month, you might wonder about the photo. It shows three men in an...

MICHIGANAssociation wages battle over disposal A Michigan Court of Appeals ruling against Gmoser’s Septic Service, Whitney Blakeslee and the Michigan Septic Tank Association...