Trucks

Construction and public works crews need to know where gas lines are before digging, drilling, pile driving, bulldozing or performing any other...

Trench collapse (or cave-in) and caught-in (or caught-between) incidents occur too often. In 2014, 39 workers perished in caught-in incidents. Between 2000...

Communication turns a group of workers into an organized crew. Ever since our cave-dwelling ancestors started using hand signals and birdcalls to...

Bio-Microbics wins i-NOVO award Bio-Microbics announced it won the DirectIndustry 2017 i-NOVO Award for its BioBarrier GWMBR Greywater Treatment System. It was voted...

When you don’t get what you want, what do you do? You make it yourself. That’s what Todd Boomhower, president of Boomhower...

In the first part of this series, I mentioned five mega megaprojects with budgets in the $10 billion to $20 billion range....

The combination of wireless communication and hearing protection comes in handy just about everywhere outside of a cubicle farm. Come to think...

The global infrastructure market totaled $3.1 trillion in 2016 and is expected to hit $4.2 trillion by 2020. Within that market are some public...

Promotion is paramount in the portable sanitation business — and for Northern Disposal & Sanitation of Katrine, Ontario, the owners have put their...

In 1957, Warren Plummer opened up Plummer’s Septic Tank in Wyoming, Michigan, following in his father’s footsteps. Over the years, as the...

It’s an age-old question in the world of trucking: Should I buy new tires or consider retreads?First, I should explain what a...

Owners Ted Popp and Jeff and Cindy Tiemann added this red 2013 Kenworth T800 with a 3,700-gallon stainless steel tank and Battioni...

Wastewater industry pioneer LaVerne Charlet passed away Dec. 20 in Paducah, Kentucky. He was 83. Charlet was a manufacturer, marketer, and innovator...

Chuck’s Septic Tank, Sewer & Drain Cleaning likes to hang on to its best clients, which is why the Grove City, Ohio, company expanded...

Back in 2000, Tom Arts and his wife, Candy, bought A-1 Septic in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Today, the diverse service business has roughly...

It’s an honor just to be nominated” is a response you often hear from actors who make the final cut for Academy...

When should a pumper trade in a smaller vacuum truck and go big? I had to ask myself this question when I...