Editorial Articles

When JRP Co. was founded last year, management set out to establish the business around a vacuum truck that could service a...

New technology advancements have made cleaning and televising of new and rehabilitated sewer, storm and pressurized pipes safer, more efficient, and cost-effective...

Whether you have one service vehicle or 100, your operators spend nearly all their time in or around their rigs. Often, whether or...

You completed your latest plumbing project on time, sent an invoice to your demanding client, and are eagerly awaiting payment ... and...

When Sean Dolan switched careers a few years ago and bought Sanitary Pumpers in Eagle River, Alaska, he made one change right...

Portable mainline inspection system saves time and money Problem: Two years ago, the city of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, was looking for an affordable solution to...

With the technology employed in sewer inspections becoming increasingly advanced, simplifying control can be a key to keeping the learning curve low...

In a business that’s generally pretty dirty, Hugh McLaughlin has a clean conscience —even after nearly 40 years’ of sewer and drain...

Residential. Industrial. Commercial. R.I.C. Plumbing pretty much does it all, but it was underground work that really elevated the company. Rick Kuhns was...

I wrote my column for this issue yesterday. This isn’t it. I was reading through it one more time this morning and I...

Imagine how much more productive your jet/vac truck could be if you didn’t need to leave the job site a half dozen...

Some jobs may seem too small to sweat over the idea of public safety. There are a hundred little things on a job...

Allocating marketing dollars can seem like an arduous and even dicey process to decide how much to spend annually and on what....

How much does it take to retire? Conventional wisdom once suggested if you could put aside a million dollars, you’d be set...

Water blaster preps historic building for refurbishing Problem: In Chicago, a historic structure stood ready to be refurbished into an up-and-coming Embassy Suites hotel....

In the world of municipal sewer cleaning, efficiency is important. Increasing efficiency without sacrificing performance or power, though, can often prove difficult....