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How to Make Your Drivers More Efficient
Managing a fleet of drivers can be difficult, to say the least. There are always inefficiencies for reasons such as routing issues,...
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Smartphone Security: When Apps Attack
As a contractor, you and your employees or co-workers probably use your smartphones for everything these days. Routing, scheduling, billing – it...
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5 Simple Tax Planning Tips
So you’ve survived another tax-filing season – hopefully with your sanity and your business finances intact. Even for small-business owners who have...
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Why Damage Waivers Are Good for Your Business
Can you imagine renting a car, running it into a tree and then not having to pay for the damages? Of course...
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The Best Apps for Invoicing
When you perform a service for a customer, it’s obviously nice to get paid for that work as quickly as possible. Late...
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12 Questions to Ask Before Buying New Equipment
Newer! Better! Faster! There’s nothing like the feeling of unwrapping a piece of brand-new equipment designed to catapult your business into the...
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#Winning: How Not To Screw Up Your Hiring Strategy
One of the most difficult challenges that small-business owners face today is finding, recruiting and retaining new talent, yet few have a...
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Top Tanks for Your New Truck
When you’re in the market for a new vacuum truck, there is a lot to consider. And the vacuum tank is a...
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How To Spec Out a Septic Pumper Truck
When you’re looking to buy a new pumper truck, Jay Minear has a few words of advice: More — in terms of...
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Warning! Disastrous Tire Blowouts Are in Your Future
Most contractors wouldn’t mind increasing their vehicle’s gas mileage, extending the life cycle of expensive tires, improving driving safety and receiving warnings...
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Does Your PPE Need an Upgrade?
Hundreds of infectious agents live in human waste. Unfortunately, not many workers in the industry are properly protecting themselves. The good news?...
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When is it OK to Give Price Breaks?
In service-based industries, it’s difficult to know where to draw the line with discounts, and when to simply let the business go....
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Client Clash: How Do You Deliver Bad News to Customers?
Service-based businesses thrive on delivering top-notch results to customers. Delivering bad news requires quite a different skill set.“Often, news is bad only...




















