
One of the many job site teams at Hydro-X, located in Atlanta, includes, from left, operators Gary Ratliff, John Beam and Neil Barrington. The three stand near one of the company’s many Mud Dog (Super Products) hydrovac units.
It’s not unusual for contractors to invest in equipment so they can do the kind of work they typically hire subcontractors to do — and leave money on the table in the process.
But at Artera Services, a national pipeline and energy-service infrastructure company, officials took...