Vacuum Excavation

In the booming hydroexcavation industry, packing high power into a compact package is preferred. The people at SchellVac Equipment took that to...

Pipe bursting used in steel water main replacementProblem: Incline Village General Improvement District of Lake Tahoe, Nevada, designed a water main replacement...

This 2015 Tornado tandem-axle hydroexcavator is seen in the mountains of Canada. The truck, owned by AABLE Directional Boring of Alberta, is built...

GapVax names sales repGapVax named Terry Brown sales representative for the southeast territory. He has 25 years of experience in operations, construction...

Starting in 2014 and running into early 2015, APC Corporation worked at Brayton Point, a coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts. The...

GapVax started because owners Gary and Rose Poborsky had difficulty finding the type of reliable equipment they needed to support their growing...

There are now 31 exhibitors committed to September’s Wastewater Equipment Fair, a new event sponsored by COLE Publishing where companies can perform...

Times are challenging for hydroexcavators working in the gas and oil industry. As oil prices fall, oil and gas companies nationwide are...

Matt Timberlake, president of Ted Berry Company, is a firm believer that no single piece of equipment will make or break you...

When Dwaine Ruckman, the owner of DR Hydrovac in Strathmore, Alberta, got into the hydroexcavating business in 2003, he wanted a truck...

Iron Horse Hydrovac Co., of Minot, North Dakota, serves a wide range of customers from the oil and pipeline sectors, utility companies,...

GapVax founder Gary Poborsky, and his wife Rose, will be inducted into the Greater Johnstown Cambria County (GJCC) Business Hall of Fame...

An old saying notes that there’s nothing certain in life except for death and taxes. In the oilfield industry, add a third...

What started out as a job to vacuum drilling mud, turned into a much larger project for Connor Orban and his company,...

Hydroexcavators work in abrasive environments, so wear on the hosing of the machine’s boom is inevitable. But there are some simple practices...

From clean trucks to hiring practices to diversification, Dwaine Ruckman likes to take a less conventional approach to business — a strategy...

Ted Berry Company’s foray into hydroexcavation came about by sheer necessity. Called into an industrial facility in a support role roughly 20...