For plumbers and other service technicians, it’s common to be in a company-owned vehicle a lot of the time — shuttling between jobs;...
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Unpredictable Hurricanes Make Plumbers Prepare for Worst-Case Scenario
When Hurricane Irma finally hit Florida on Sept. 10, it struck as a Category 3 storm instead of the Category 5 storm...
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Plumber Industry News: Sept. 7, 2017
Taco Comfort Solutions announces student scholarship award winners
Taco Comfort Solutions has announced the winners of its annual student scholarship awards, which provide...
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Are Dashcams a Video Tattler or Insurance Tamer?
You’ve probably seen the ads on TV claiming that good drivers can save up to 30 percent on their car insurance. All...
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Service Vans, Fleet Management
Tracking program monitors location and fuel usageProblem: Plumbing Medic in Gilbert, Arizona, needed to improve time management and accountability of their mobile workforce. Since...
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Forget the Sliding Toolbox, Look at a Service Body for Your Pickup
From durable surfaces to optimized tool and material storage, service bodies can help bring the shop out into the field. But the...
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Keep Your Workers Safe With Better Job Site Tracking
If you’ve been involved in work on large job sites, you know that a big part of safety is simply keeping track...
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Gearing Up for Greater Productivity
The shift to automatic transmissions in vocational trucks continues to gain momentum with strong growth in automated mechanical transmissions and telematics (remote...
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Plumbers Find Variety of Solutions to Boost Efficiency
Improving the efficiency of a plumbing company can take many different forms. For Mark Vice it was purchasing some land so he...
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Plumbing Contractor Takes Unique Path to Growth
Looking at the history of Shelton Plumbing is a bit like looking at a roller coaster with its ups and downs. At...
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Plumbing Contractor Finds a New Way to Service Customers
Meeks Plumbing has been serving the area of Vero Beach, Florida, for 35 years, with a full range of services including new...
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It’s Not Just a Place You Toss Your Wrenches Anymore
Toolboxes used to be made of wood or steel and tossed into the back of a pickup truck, where they’d be strapped...
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Plumber Industry News: ACV Triangle Tube Builds New Manufacturing Facility
ACV Triangle Tube built a new production facility that is designed to streamline the manufacturing process for its Smart indirect-fired water heater line,...
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GPS Insight Releases 2016 Fleet Management Technology Report
GPS Insight has released the 2016 Fleet Management Technology Report, a U.S. commercial fleet survey and report produced in partnership with Bobit...
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From PEX Piping to a ’55 Chevy Work Truck: The Top 10 Stories of 2016
Here’s a collection of the most-read stories on PlumberMag.com over the past year. If you missed any of these, now is your...
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Truck Lift Lightens the Load for Plumbers
At Tope Plumbing, a plumbing and drain cleaning company in St. Louis, Missouri, management opted to literally give technicians a lift by...
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Should You Run Ethanol in Your Small Engine?
Would you? Could you? Should you use ethanol-blended, oxygenated fuel in your small engine?The short answer is yes, but …Today’s spark-ignited, carbureted...















