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This California Pumper’s Career Change Is a Hole-in-One
Experience as a golf pro and country club hospitality manager helped Zack Ray make a smooth transition to a new career as a pumper.
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The Best Moneymakers of 2017
The equipment, septic components and technology installers relied on the most this year
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An Ohio Pumping Company Relies on a Youth Movement for Growth
Family-owned Tidy Tim’s Inc. looks to the next generation to kick-start business into a higher gear.
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Handy Attachments and Hardworking Excavators Make His Bucket List
Iowa pumper and installer Rick Miene has fun collecting a wide variety of earth-moving machines and finding new ways to make money with them.
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Lessons From a Mentor Turn Into Pumping Profits
Industry newcomer Shawn Carlton mixed personal service, great equipment and an emerging inspection specialty to fuel growth in his pumping business.
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The Right Equipment Will Bring in the Dollars
Adding capable machines and learning on the job is the best way to successfully diversify a pumping operation, says Henry Damm of California’s Big Bore Drilling.
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Career Swap Puts Partners Behind the Wheel of a Pumping Truck
It’s a happy ending for a nurse, a chicken farmer and a dairyman who joined forces to buy and operate a successful Minnesota septic service business.
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Expanding the Menu of Wastewater Services Builds the Bottom Line
Plumbing and pumping go hand in hand for Mr. Rooter of Anderson, South Carolina.
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Supersize My Classy Truck
This year’s batch of top septic service trucks carry bigger loads and have already clocked many years of reliable service for their owners.
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Buy a New Rolling Chassis; Add a Rebuilt Late-Model Engine
A creative vacuum truck purchase, strategic land application and extensive marketing get new septic service owners off on the right foot.
