When opportunity knocks, Derrick Nelson firmly believes in opening the door — not just a crack, but wide open.
It’s a business philosophy that has propelled Nelson Sanitation & Rental in Rice, a small Minnesota town about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, to heights never imagined by Nelson’s father, Jerome, when he established the business as a small septic pumping and portable restroom outfit in 1979.In the ensuing 46 years, the business has morphed from what essentially was a side gig for the elder Nelson into a fully diversified company that now owns five combination sewer vacuum trucks with hydroexcavation packages
