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I asked friend and PRO columnist Jeff Wigley why he thought the folks that make up the portable sanitation industry are so...

It’s not every day you see a new wrinkle in the world of portable sanitation. But a recent story at the Gothamist...

If there’s anyone outside the driver’s seat of a vacuum truck who knows how busy your life was in 2022, it’s me....

As most of you have learned, social media can be a powerful tool to promote your portable sanitation business generally, and to...

It’s spring cleaning season and for PROs that means getting the work trucks in tip-top shape to handle longer, more hectic daily...

I’d like to share some commentary about recent news stories involving the portable sanitation industry. As always, I welcome your thoughts on...

You might think a large urban city like would have ample access to permanent public bathrooms. But you would be wrong. Many...

We all want to start the new year out on the right foot. And coinci-dentally, two of the stories in this issue...

If I had to come up with a word to describe the portable sanitation industry in 2021 it would be uncertainty. Heading into...

Slide-In Units American Tank 400-Gallon Service Unit The 400-Gallon Service Unit from American Tank has a 300-gallon waste/100-gallon freshwater tank designed to back up to the headache rack on...

When Jason Starr’s grandmother, Martha Starr, age 90, called him “the firecracker,” she wasn’t kidding around. The 44-year-old owner of Starr Portables...

It’s been a hectic year for portable restroom operators. When it started, the world was still in lockdown from the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Recently I was reminded of a series of day-in-the-life videos we produced a decade ago with Gretchen Menard, a portable restroom contractor...

Graffiti on portable restrooms can be a persistent and time-consuming problem for you and your technicians. The labor and cost of cleaning...