Chris Podgurski can sum up in only three words why he ordered a custom-built, super-sized GapVax combo vacuum truck that he calls the “baddest machine around.” Bigger is better.
“It’s a monster of a truck,” says Podgurski, owner of Podgurski Corp., a sewer and industrial cleaning and utility installation company based in Canton, Massachusetts, a southwest suburb of Boston. Founded in 1940 by his grandfather, the company employs 29 people, runs six vacuum trucks and serves customers throughout southern New England.“The tires are bigger,” Podgurski continues. “The blower is bigger. The brakes are bigger. The water pump is bigger. Virtually everything
