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Does Your Business Need a Facelift?
Change can be a hard pill to swallow. Customers change, products change, regulations change. It can be even more difficult if you’re...
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3 Myths About Septic Pumping
You’ve been in the septic pumping business for decades, so your knowledge of best practices, safety measures and equipment buying is extensive....
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Stake Your Turf: How To Define Service Areas
Successful portable restroom operators and liquid waste professionals reach a point where they need to decide how far to extend their service...
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Septage Dewatering on a Budget
With fewer municipal wastewater treatment plants accepting septage and increased regulations on land application, many pumping contractors are turning to the next...
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Are You Prepared to Fire an Employee?
Nobody likes to be fired, and very few of us enjoy firing others. Nevertheless, there are times in which this most definitive...
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How To Break Into the Portable Restroom Industry
If anyone knows about breaking into the portable restroom industry, it’s Jeff Wigley, past president of the Portable Sanitation Association International and...
Blogs
$15 Minimum Wage Breaks Records
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a $15 minimum wage — the highest big-city minimum wage in the U.S. — for workers...
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Community Spirit: How Giving Back Can Grow Your Business
Whether it’s volunteering, donating, supporting local sports teams or joining a community business organization, you need to be invested in your hometown....
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How To Balance Tourist Season & Regular Clients
It’s spring, and summer vacations are right around the corner. Not yours, of course. You’re heading right into your busy season with...
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Pumper Rewind: Coats & Coats Business Expansion Pays Off
We celebrate the continued dedication and hard work of septic service contractors by revisiting companies profiled 10 years ago in Pumper magazine....
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Top 3 Benefits of State Association Membership
Education. Legislative advocacy. Group discounts. All benefits of belonging to a state onsite/wastewater association, but they’re just a start. The list doesn’t...
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Do Your Restrooms Pass the White-Glove Test?
Are your restrooms fresh as the morning dew — fully stocked, white-glove clean and odor free? Or do they suffer from overuse?Jason...
Videos
Custom Orange County Choppers Bike Shines at 2014 Expo
When industrial vacuum truck manufacturer GapVax and famed fabrication shop Orange County Choppers team up to commemorate the company’s 25th anniversary, the...



















