For years, Gary Miksis — owner of California-based Miksis Services — had to periodically turn down work because his Vactor 2100 combination sewer trucks were too big to access job sites.
Or in some instances, Miksis would take on the jobs, but they’d require long hose runs and multiple employees to jet debris from manhole to manhole to manhole before reaching an accessible location where a truck could vacuum it up.
“Pretty soon you’re pushing debris, say, 1,000 feet before a truck could vacuum it up,” he explains. “And the farther you have to drag debris, the more debris you accumulate, which makes jobs
