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Two steps toward glistening restrooms
One of the best ways to market your portable restroom business is to make sure units in use at high-attendance special events...
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Consider Tom Arts' Strategy for Building a Successful Pumping Company
Back in 2000, Tom Arts and his wife, Candy, bought A-1 Septic in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Today, the diverse service business has roughly...
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Simple Sells in This Year’s Crop of Classy Trucks
Our Classy Truck feature is typically one indicator of trends in wastewater work trucks. The 18 trucks chosen for publication in our...
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They’re Pumping in the Most Beautiful Place on Earth
Craig Stewart needed a successor to take over his business as he faced an uncertain future. Knox VanZandt wanted a stable income...
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3 Steps to Creating Networking Gold for Your Pumping Business
Networking is kind of like going to the dentist. You know you have to do it, everyone tells you that you have...
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Long Island Communities in New York Tighten Onsite System Rules
Suffolk County, New York, has pushed to replace common cesspools with advanced onsite systems that reduce nitrogen pollution, and now a couple...
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Don’t Let Nursing Home Bills Drain Your Retirement Savings
Most of us think about a long period of retirement in good health. But, we know that all the kale in the...
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Linking Pumpers and the Public in the Classroom
Pumpers can play a critical role in improving water quality in their communities by educating customers about septic system usage and maintenance,...
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Choose Your Favorite Classy Truck of the Year
It’s an honor just to be nominated” is a response you often hear from actors who make the final cut for Academy...
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What Is a Hydraulic Load Test, and When Is It Used?
As many of you are aware, I have been involved with numerous education programs and efforts over the years. Probably more than...
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Tailor Vacuum Truck Size to Your Workload
When should a pumper trade in a smaller vacuum truck and go big? I had to ask myself this question when I...
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Wastewater Pros Play a Critical Role in Water Resource Protection
Name and title or job description: Tim Lubbers, president – installer, maintainer
Business: Lubbers Excavating, Andale, Kansas
Age: 59
Years in the industry: 31
Association involvement:...
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Classy Truck - December 2017
Todd Boomhower added this red, white, and blue 2003 International 8600 with a new 3,300-gallon steel tank and National Vacuum Equipment 400...
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Classy Truck - December 2017
Dave and Katy McGregor bought an all-black with pink lettering 2007 Peterbilt 335 built out by Vacutrux Limited with a 4,300-gallon steel...
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Rockslide allows one worker to install a gravel-and-pipe leach line
Septic system installer Brady Rettkowski knew there had to be a better way. The Oregon-based contractor was spending an inordinate amount of...
