Editorial Articles

Pumpers who come across problems when servicing their customers’ septic tanks have many options to remedy these situations. The repertoire of choices...

Pumper averts a dangerous situationComment:Yesterday I went to pump a septic tank in the country. Pulling into the driveway, I noticed the...

Our third annual Waste Treatment Symposium, Sept. 10-11, in Eureka, Mo., attracted 100 pumpers from as far away as Alaska, Florida and...

The warnings are everywhere: Inflation is back. “Get used to high prices,” is the downer headline of the day on CNN. The...

Kevin Atkins’ deft handling of a vacuum truck suction hose has earned the Roto-Rooter of Columbus, Ohio, excavator and pumper praise from...

Who’s afraid of the World Wide Web? Actually, many people over 30 who don’t use a computer in their daily job may...

A letter came in the mail the other day from a Pumper reader (who preferred not to be named), exasperated over the...

Tim Kettler likes to tell folks on the campaign trail that he prepared for a career in politics for 22 years, because...

A friend of mine calls it the Three Foot Rule. It means that when he’s at a trade show, if you come...

Lenzyme Installs Solar Heating Panels Lenzyme, manufacturer of septic tank treatment products, has installed a solar hot water heating system at its...

The Bio-Box biodiesel fuel factory from Pacific Natural Energy Corp. enables pumpers to economically make fuel from things they’d normally pay to...

Question:I have occasionally had problems with homeowners complaining about getting odors now and then caused by their septic system. I have read...

A Virginia law requiring mandatory maintenance for all alternative onsite systems goes into effect July 1, 2009. According to K.R. “Trapper” Davis...

Veteran septic-waste pumper Steve Ziegler has a bit of advice for business owners who want to pass along a family-owned company to...

If ever there was an industry whose personnel fit the description in Bon Jovi’s song Wanted Dead or Alive, it’s the septic...

The jaws of more than one vacuum truck driver, not to mention just about anyone else who depends on diesel-powered equipment and...

The customer won’t pay. What now?Question:It finally happened. I am dealing with a customer who hasn’t paid his bill. I have been...

The Water Environment Research Foundation, or WERF, funded research that identified business characteristics common among 15 successful Responsible Management Entities, or RMEs....

You would think there wouldn’t be a need for recession planning. We should see the economic slowdowns coming. The constant wave of...