As an outdoorsman who loves to fish and canoe, Douglas Hurrelbrink has a passionate concern for clean water. Since 2010 he’s brought...
Entries Tagged Portable Restroom
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5 Reasons You’re Losing Special Events Clients
How do you build a successful relationship with special event customers? In today’s tech-savvy world, you might start with a simple “Like”...
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How Do You Sell the Portable Sanitation Industry?
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” These are...
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Stake Your Turf: How To Define Service Areas
Successful portable restroom operators and liquid waste professionals reach a point where they need to decide how far to extend their service...
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Take Your Special Events to the Next Level
Fresh flowers, solar-powered lighted walkways, complimentary toiletries — how do you make your special events customers feel extra special? Perhaps you pamper...
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Rules and Regs: Alaska Septic Pumpers Expect Stricter Disposal Limitations
Septic pumpers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska don’t have a local disposal site for septage. Every day, they have to ship...
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How To Break Into the Portable Restroom Industry
If anyone knows about breaking into the portable restroom industry, it’s Jeff Wigley, past president of the Portable Sanitation Association International and...
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78-Year-Old Portable Restroom Operator Retires
Dale Downs has worked hard to help build Port-A-Jon Inc., a portable restroom operation serving areas in Texas and Louisiana. Now 78...
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Canadian Business Owner Converts Dairy Farm to Diversified Wastewater Service Provider
Constantly eyeing industry technology advances and government regulation of liquid waste haulers, Francis Overmars has transformed a small Canadian dairy heifer farming...
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Pumper Overcomes Illness & Continues Quality Service in Growing Economy
When John Simison went to see a doctor in September 2012 for severe mid-back pain, he figured it was just a backlash...
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Community Spirit: How Giving Back Can Grow Your Business
Whether it’s volunteering, donating, supporting local sports teams or joining a community business organization, you need to be invested in your hometown....
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How To Balance Tourist Season & Regular Clients
It’s spring, and summer vacations are right around the corner. Not yours, of course. You’re heading right into your busy season with...
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Small But Mighty
Take a look at this Nature’s Call/Coats & Coatscompany article featured 10 years ago in the March 2004 issue of Pumper magazine....
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Pumper Rewind: Coats & Coats Business Expansion Pays Off
We celebrate the continued dedication and hard work of septic service contractors by revisiting companies profiled 10 years ago in Pumper magazine....




















