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When first profiled in Cleaner magazine in 2009, Kathy and Duncan St. Croix’s Syracuse, New York, firm was known as Drainman Jet-O-Rooter....

In work truck fleets, operator safety is a paramount concern. Adding safety options can have huge payoffs in terms of insurance savings,...

So much depends on what pops up on a screen when a potential customer types your name or company name into a...

Canadian sewer and drain cleaner NCM Hydro Vac Services is proving that cleaners have much more to offer the industry than only...

The next time you conduct a job interview, keep in mind this startling — and sobering — statistic from a recent U.S....

Some companies have the luxury of trained mechanics on site to handle any equipment problems. Even if this is the case for you,...

A decade ago, Greg Goan decided that working the hard contracts would help him best build a reputation that would propel his...

The massive “fatberg” that clogged a London sewer back in September and made headlines as workers from Thames Water spent weeks removing it is...

While many contractors nationwide find it increasingly difficult to attract and retain quality skilled laborers, Diversified Underground stands out as an outlier. The...

I bet most managers believe good customer service plays out like a movie script — right down to happy, smiling faces in...

It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in or the size of your company — leveraging social media is a must for competing...

Barry Kiser pulled up in his company’s hydroexcavator about 6 a.m. last Saturday on a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 near Montecito,...

We’ve all heard the horror stories of great businesses utterly collapsing because the founders were good friends and the relationship turned sour....

Covanta Environmental Solutions of Milwaukee has trailer-mounted vacuum units built in-house that it calls VacSimizers. They combine a 5,000-gallon tank and a standard...