November 2008 Table of Contents

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Features

  • 20Expo Preview: Extend Your Hand
    The people you meet at the Pumper & Cleaner Expo might help you solve a nagging problem or give you business ideas worth their weight in gold
  • 38Profile: Seizing the Day
    Three partners grab a unique opportunity to buy out a contractor’s equipment and form a diverse industrial services firm on the Gulf Coast
  • 54Cover Story: Whatever It Takes
    Rogers & Sons attacks the most difficult cleaning problems with energy, ingenuity and a wide range of tools – many custom-made
  • 76Tech Perspective: Time to Take a Swing?
    Drain cleaners find growing value in a Web site – as long as it’s well-designed and integrated with a complete marketing program

Columns

  • 10From the Editor: The Best Business Lesson
    A key to sustaining important personal relationships is to let business be business and friendship be friendship
  • 16Safety First: Getting It Right
    Root cause analysis can be a valuable approach to following up on a workplace accident
  • 22Money Manager: The Right PSI for the Best MPG
    With high fuel prices apparently here to stay, proper tire inflation and common-sense driving tips can help control transportation costs
  • 30Better Business: Your Employee’s First Day
    Whether you’re hiring for the first time or adding to staff, it pays to be up to date with the legalities of bringing people on board
  • 64After Hours: A Song Runs Through It
    For a Virginia contractor family, teamwork makes for success in widely different business worlds
  • 72Money Machines: Two for One
    A pressure-washing company in Massachusetts opts for cargo trucks that each carry a large water tank and a pair of hot-water washers
  • 86Reader Pipelines: Pressure’s On
    Contractors use different approaches but bring the same concern and care when devising training for waterjetting and waterblasting technicians
  • 90Product Spotlight: High-Pressure Cleaning Unit Is Built for Versatility
    The Stripe Hog 3000 high-pressure cleaning system from Waterblasting Technologies combines high-pressure waterjetting with vacuum recovery and a self-cleaning debris tank
  • 92Tough Job: All Gassed Up
    A tank-cleaning process enables the owner of a New York service station to operate at peak efficiency after a solvent contaminates gasoline
  • 100Industry News: Industry News
    Envirosight Expands Headquarters, Opens Regional Center; Hughes Joins RS Lining Systems; RIDGID Hosts Forum Appreciation Day; NASSCO Creates Cured-in-Place-Pipe Committee; Hannay Releases Pressure Wash, Spray Hose Reel Catalog; Federal Signal Expands Guzzler, Vactor Facilities; PipeHunter Names Parts Manager