In the municipal and industrial drain cleaning business, equipment downtime is a profit and productivity killer. It disrupts job schedules, increases business expenses and perhaps worst of all, irritates customers. It could even motivate them to find a new contractor.Or so Gene Glassburner, the owner of Performance Pipeline Technologies (PPT) in Huntington Beach, Calif., has heard. He’s not all that familiar with the concept of downtime because his company owns five Ramjet V8015 waterjetting trucks, built by Vactor Manufacturing. He says the machines are as reliable as they are efficient.“We run these trucks every day for eight to 10 hours
