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Pik Rite used tank service work
Pik Rite provides complete makeovers to used trucks. This 2004 Sterling cab was repainted to a clean white and the 4,000-gallon Pik...
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Career Swap Puts Partners Behind the Wheel of a Pumping Truck
When Cindy Tiemann, RN and director of nursing for an assisted living facility, wanted a career change, she never anticipated becoming an...
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Expanding the Menu of Wastewater Services Builds the Bottom Line
Sending work to subcontractors never made much business sense to Bob and Danielle Beauregard, the owners of a Mr. Rooter plumbing and...
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Supersize My Classy Truck
It’s Classy Truck time, one of my favorite months of the year here at Pumper. This marks a decade since we started...
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The 7 Deadly Marketing Sins — and How to Avoid Them
I was asked by one of my employees recently if I had a copy of the e-book I wrote years ago called...
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Improper Use of ‘Flushable Wipes’ Costs Canadians $250 Million Annually
The Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group, composed of 29 communities in Ontario, estimates that flushable wipes cost Canadian utilities $250 million per...
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Happy Holidays — and Get Ready for the Tax Man
With the annual chore of filing your personal and business income tax returns for 2016 just around the corner, it’s a good...
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Childhood Truck Rides Lead to a Career in Wastewater
As a child, Sara Coleman remembers hopping on the vacuum truck to go along on septic service calls. The time spent with...
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Cast Your Ballot for Your Favorite Septic Service Truck
In a first for the Classy Truck of the Year competition, we brought more rigs into the garage this year for your...
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Business Diversification — Sewer and Drain Maintenance
Camera system allows company to expand services and operate more efficientlyProblem: C.A. Taciak & Sons in Towson, Maryland, wants to understand how...
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Wittig RFL 102 vacuum pump from Gardner Denver provides high vacuum in smaller footprint
The ability to load and off-load quickly can equal more appointments per day, which means profit for a pumper. Scheduling more appointments...
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Ka-Boom! Can a Septic Tank Spontaneously Combust?
A couple of months ago, I read a news story about a septic tank that exploded and started a fire, destroying a...
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Land Application Misunderstood in Big Sky Country
It’s a common problem in the onsite industry. As more people seek the peaceful rural lifestyle, conflicts arise with the way things...
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Classy Truck of the Month - December 2016
Owner Tim Novak added “Big Blue,’’ a 2002 Sterling truck built out by Cooper’s Sandblasting, Minerva, Ohio, with a 3,600-gallon steel Pik...
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Classy Truck of the Month - December 2016
Courtney Van Delden submitted a 2016 Kenworth T800 with a 4,000-gallon aluminum tank and Masport HXL400WV pump built out by Progress Tank....
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Submit Scholarship Applications, Industry Service Award Nominations
Hapchuk ScholarshipThe National Association of Wastewater Technicians is offering a $1,500 Hapchuk Scholarship to a deserving student interested in a career in...
