“We started with a little truck that held 1,000 gallons.”
Jim Ehde has come a long way in just six years since he started Grand Island Waste Management, located on the 22-square-mile island of Grand Island, New York. The island, home to about 20,000, borders Canada and is just upstream from Niagara Falls.
Today, Ehde, an island native, has four trucks, including a noteworthy gray and metallic blue 2012 Freightliner carrying a 5,000-gallon (all waste) steel tank and Juniper 330 cfm vacuum pump built out by Pik Rite. The truck, which he bought used, is powered
