After working in the drain cleaning business for 17 years, Thomas Bowden knew what he liked and didn’t like in service trucks. So when he founded Drain Doctor Plumbers Inc. in Umatilla, Fla., in 2003, he kept his eyes open for the right vehicle.He started out with a Ford extended van, knowing that soon he would want something with a longer, wider, taller cargo space. One day he saw a FedEx delivery van that looked ideal and followed it until it stopped so that he could read the nameplate: Freightliner. He went to a nearby Freightliner dealer and placed an
