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When Ben Govotski bought a 2007 GapVax HV-56 combination truck, he got a much bigger return on investment than he expected. Govotski,...

David Ratliff’s Midway Plumbing is a quarter-century old, but it has lasted that long by doing new things. He launched the business...

Being a big contractor good at many little things was hard to market, so Dennis Smith, owner of Pipe Experts LLC in...

Bob Smith used to be just a guy with a truck. Then he bought a used trailer-mounted waterjetter made by Harben and...

A heavily tuberculated, flaking and rusting 90-foot section of 18-inch carbon steel pipe in a 280-foot clay pipe sewer was a headache...

American Inspection Technologies in Trenton, N.J., has its roots in a residential drain cleaning business. But today it is a diverse pipe...

In pipeline inspection technology, most of the credit goes to the cameras that enable viewing of the pipe wall, the vans that...

To boost employee safety, enhance productivity and decrease operating costs, Martin’s Pipeline Inspection in Paris, Ky., went green – as in a...

As the son of a plumber who had worked for his father as a youngster, Bob Rasnick decided in 1993 to open...

Remember those Andre Agassi commercials for Canon cameras with the tagline, “Image is everything?”Mark Bonney agrees, and that’s why the 22 service...

Sewage backing into the emergency room complex of the Villages Regional Hospital brought employees from the maintenance arm of CH2M Hill on...

Clayton Holland came into the service business with no formal marketing training, but that hasn’t kept him from developing a fully integrated...

Sometimes new opportunities make business owners take a deep breath and make big investments in new equipment. Rich Navert, owner and president...

The municipal swimming pool in Tracy, Minn., was losing hundreds of gallons of water per day. When a local contractor televised the...

Roto-Rooter Services Company president and chief operating officer Rick Arquilla experienced a week undercover in his own company, using the alias of...

Sitting in classes at Virginia Tech, Robert Kalbach, III, had a pretty good idea of his future: president of Utility Services Group...

For technicians at Diamondback Plumbing Services Inc. in Phoenix, Ariz., using underpowered equipment to break up heavy grease clogs in restaurant drain...

Advanced Vacuum Services (AVS) has an impressive list of equipment. Still business manager Donna Raver says that what sets the company apart...

In the infrastructure-heavy markets where municipal and commercial cleaner Russell Reid operates, business opportunities are plentiful. To capitalize, the company, based in...