Editorial Articles

Question: Our company has put a major focus on health and safety over the past year. One area of uncertainty concerns first-aid kits....

Have you ever learned through the grapevine that one of your employees was looking around for another job? How did you react...

Allen Luebbe rejoins Imperial Industries Allen Luebbe has returned to Imperial Industries to handle heavy- and medium-duty truck purchasing. With more than 15...

Surco provides new sanitizer products to fill demand caused by the pandemic When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last spring, hand sanitizers became essential to...

Last summer when protests were happening in American cities, a portable sanitation company leader overheard a conversation outside her office window. It...

Anyone in a family business knows that according to many statistics, the chance of the business surviving declines with each handoff to...

It’s been 10 years since Shawn Hiscott and two business partners took ownership of Honey Huts Portables, a restroom company in Dartmouth,...

THE TEAM Based in New Franken, Wisconsin — located just northeast of Green Bay — Jim’s John’s is owned by Jim Jansen. He...

Question: We operate in northern Louisiana and we are susceptible to high winds, occasional tornados and, especially in 2020, hurricanes. What are some...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When a PRO passes a portable restroom along the side of the road, you...

ClearPath GPS expands management team ClearPath GPS expanded its management team with several software-industry experts. Heather Burleson joins the company as vice president...

Royal Restrooms portable sink trailers Royal Restrooms has created new sink trailers to help stop the spread of COVID-19. The sink trailers will...

The initial idea behind Alltainer’s restroom facilities was to serve long-term industrial locations like mines, refineries and construction sites with minimal maintenance...

These portable restrooms were put into service to offer easier maintenance for this attraction over the permanent bathroom facilities during the COVID-19...

Standard Portable Restrooms Ameri-Can Engineering Pro 600 The Pro 600 from Ameri-Can Engineering is a commercial-grade, self-contained restroom pod. It is designed for extreme use including lift points...

Almost a decade ago, J.C. Pitts came on board full-time at Pitts Stop Porta Pottys, the company his father, Charles “Crab” Pitts,...

In 2016, when Cole Leister’s father and grandmother bought a 65-year-old septic/portable restroom company from the retiring owner in Salina, Kansas, something...

Question: As new business owners, what advice can you give regarding end-of-year planning? Answer: Last month we examined our suggested “year-end planning” for December. The...

A lot can happen in an industry over a decade. I looked back at my editor’s column from the January 2011 issue...