As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the top stories on pumper.com. If you...
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Blogs
7 Signs Your Crew Needs Better Communication
Ever since our cave-dwelling ancestors started using hand signals and birdcalls to corner a mammoth, we’ve been trying to perfect communication to...
Videos
Hear What’s Important
Walt Logan, from Dig This Heavy Equipment Playground, has been running heavy equipment since the mid-1960s and knows that communication is important...
Online Exclusives
Classy Conversations With Courtney and Garrett Van Delden
Consistency is key. After a few decades in the business, Van Delden Wastewater Systems of Boerne, Texas, has got it figured out...
Online Exclusives
New vs. Used: Going All-In on a Truck Purchase
Entering a new business market is daunting enough without throwing a huge capital investment into the mix. That explains why Bob Beauregard...
Online Exclusives
Jetter Hose Repair 101
Sooner or later, contractors who rigorously inspect their jetter hoses will discover a nick or cut that requires a repair. While taking...
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Industry News: December 2016
Armstrong Equipment named Cat Pumps distributor
Armstrong Equipment, based in Santa Fe Springs, California, has been named a distributor for the Cat Pumps...
Online Exclusives
Jetter Investment Pays Off in Line-Thawing Work
When Fiedler’s Your Pumping Specialists purchased a Landa hot-water jetter, the timing couldn’t have been better. Owners Ted Popp and Jeff and...
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Watch a Raging Bear Get Rescued From a Septic Tank
As a septic service professional, you've already seen it all. Have you really, though?A video has surfaced in Bolu, Turkey, and it shows a crew rescuing...
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
Online Exclusives
Maximizing Jetter Hose Life
How long will a typical jetter hose last? Answering that question is as easy as trying to estimate when a jetter’s pump...
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Classy Conversation with Cody Mitchell
As the saying goes, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.Cody Mitchell, owner of Central Septic Service,...





















