Inside the September 2011 Issue

Features

Tech Perspective: ZOOOOOM!

Pole-mounted cameras provide a high-quality, cost-saving complement to traditional crawler-based pipeline inspection

Cover Story: Tapping into Insight

While working as a full-time treatment plant superintendent, Kevin Jacobson launched and runs a successful inspection and cleaning firm

Profile: Just One Call

Subterrain Technologies gives customers a single point of contact for help with a host of underground infrastructure challenges

Columns

From the Editor: Why Did You Do It?

People start businesses for all kinds of reasons and with all sorts of motivations. What was it that finally pushed you into entrepreneurship?

Safety First: When It’s Never Quiet

Tinnitus can be a lasting and most unpleasant result of long-term and unprotected exposure to loud noises

Money Machines: Sizzle That Sells

A trailer-mounted 4,000 psi jetter and service van make a sharp impression while traveling – and deliver big cleaning performance on the job

Product News: September Product News

Industry News: September Industry News

Aquatech de Las Americas Launches Website; WOMA Sells Controlling Interest to Karcher; Workers Return at General Wire; Techspray Launches Product Website

Special Feature: Mainline Sewer Inspection

Product Focus: Mainline Sewer Inspection

Better Business: Letters to Remember

SCORE and SBDC provide valuable financial advice and business-planning services to small-company owners

Tough Job: Holding the Fort

A cured-in-place lining system helps workers fix leaking drain lines while preserving the historic character of a Florida landmark

Money Manager: Follow the Money

Embezzlement can do your business serious damage. Here are several common-sense steps you can take to protect yourself.