Editorial Articles

Sewer and drain specialist EcoClean LLC of Portland, Maine, turns heads with its showpiece inspection vehicle, a tricked-out 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee...

Be careful in how you classify workers. Most people who work for you are likely to be employees and not independent contractors....

RIDGID Announces Press for Success WinnerGregg Hall, Columbus, Ohio, was the grand prize winner of the RIDGID 2008 Press for Success contest...

In a single week in April, Roto-Rooter outlets made two unusual and much appreciated rescues, according to Paul Abrams, public relations manager....

The arrangement is quite amicable to Kuta who, after 15 years of driving a semi rig, lost his job when his employer...

“Visitors don’t always respect our local plumbing,” Ford says. “They pour or flush anything they want down the drains. Stuff poured...

Waterjetters are more than just cleaning tools for Chuck’s Septic Tank Sewer & Drain Cleaning Inc. They’re also sales vehicles.Customers often...

If you own a business, some recent workdays may have gone like this: You bolt awake, grab the financial section of the...

If you’ve ever read an investment analyst’s report on a stock, you’ve probably seen references to various calculations that the writer used...

Companies with just a few service vans or trucks may think a fleet safety program is unnecessary. However, it takes only a...

If you own a business, there’s much more to the U.S. government’s economic stimulus program than the check you received in the...

Whether you’re emptying a septic tank, servicing a restroom or providing countless other services, the key to every pumping job is the...

The Perma-Patch system from Perma-Liner Industries Inc. can repair sewer laterals with small cracks, holes or joint separations without excavation. Through an...

A maintenance crew at a large California marina was reinforcing the concrete seawall between the boardwalk and parking lot when they became...

In mid-March of 2007, a Minneapolis city employee was cleaning a sewer line in the northeast part of town. He was working...

When the job is too big for a portable jetter and not big enough for a high-powered truck-mounted unit, trailer jetters perform...

Anyone in the trenchless industry knows that cleaning a sewer pipe requires significant knowledge and expert safety skills. Without these ingredients, serious...

When the time came for Alan O’Neill and his partner to name their drain cleaning and plumbing company in Houston, Texas, in...

LMK Enterprises Inc. has received a U.S. patent for its CIPP lateral lining through a cleanout without the need for digging or...