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Post by kings6 on Oct 26, 2011 19:15:46 GMT -5
Most of you guys know I own a small septic pumping business to support my single action habit! ;D I thought you might get a kick out of the truck we have spent the last 18 months building to upgrade our small pumping "fleet". The graphics guy just finished the lettering and pinstriping yesterday so today I took a few pictures before it hits the road and starts pumping. While the truck is a 2000 Kenworth T800 I bought it from a customer with only 180K miles on it so it was a perfect platform for the new tank/equipment set up. With a 550 hp Cat engine, Fuller 10 speed with splitter and full lockers, I don't think we will have any problems pulling the little hills around here. ;D Thanks for letting me share, Robb
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Post by newrugersafan on Oct 26, 2011 19:21:30 GMT -5
Good looking truck Robb, If you gotta haul "poop" might as well look good doing it.
Mike
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Post by robl on Oct 26, 2011 19:27:32 GMT -5
What? No catchy phrase on the back of the tank?
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Post by kings6 on Oct 26, 2011 19:29:49 GMT -5
I have folks tell me all the time that it is too nice a truck to haul what we do and I simply tell them if they want someone on their property who drives a dirty, beat up truck with brown "stains" on the back and used pieces of toilet paper hanging off it then they need to call someone else. I figure if I expect to charge a professional fee then I better have professional equipment and act like a professional. That is why I took the new hire down to the work wear shop and bought him new Carhartt rain gear, new boots and new button down shirts to work in. Holes in jeans, dirty shirts and torn jackets do not cut it on our trucks.
Not the way all pumpers do it but it works for us.
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Post by cj3a on Oct 26, 2011 20:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by kaytod on Oct 26, 2011 20:08:23 GMT -5
Catchy phrase on the back,
Like this?
"Yesterday's meals on wheels"
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Post by dmize on Oct 26, 2011 21:11:00 GMT -5
Catchy phrase on the back, Like this? "Yesterday's meals on wheels" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by arokcrwlr on Oct 26, 2011 21:33:56 GMT -5
How about "Your Dumpin' Keeps us Pumpin'"
That's a nice truck Robb. I have always liked big rigs. A friend of mine converted a Volvo T2000 to an RV/toy hauler and it is way cool.
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Post by boxhead on Oct 26, 2011 23:05:01 GMT -5
Nice rig. One of my first tasks when I took over the maintenance manager position at our now defunt West Texas refinery was to spec out and purchase a vacuum truck to suck up the "shite" from tanks, columns, vessels and the like. I had no idea what it ultimately entailed given the rather explosive nature of what we would be pumping. Sounds like you likely had the same issue given your "feed stream".
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Post by majorKAP on Oct 27, 2011 0:05:07 GMT -5
On the back end of the truck that serviced my tank this year there was a big color pic of Yosemite Sam carrying a pair of revolvers in his hands. The caption read, "Whoa there big fella, back off! We ain't haulin' milk." Wish now I had taken a pic.
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Post by kings6 on Oct 27, 2011 0:05:56 GMT -5
Sorry Rob, I am working real hard to to get our industry, at least here in Oregon, to class up their act and get rid of the "We're number 1 in the number 2 business" or "Yesterday's Meals On Wheels" slogans on the trucks.
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Post by paulg on Oct 27, 2011 5:06:56 GMT -5
Picture this: Cowboy on horse, twirling his rope that morphs into the title "Turd Herders". I have 9 lift stations that I maintain and I get the potty humor quite "regularly". Nice truck but people just have too much fun with potty humor to pass it up. If they had to take the Hepatitis series of shots required to work in the "turd herding" business they might re-think the seriousness of the industry. Naw.... it's still funny! Remember "we make __it flow uphill!" :-)
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Post by AxeHandle on Oct 27, 2011 7:08:40 GMT -5
All I can say is you guys in the northwest either make real big ones and/or a lot of it... The typical poop pumper truck here in the southeast is much smaller..
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Post by kings6 on Oct 27, 2011 8:59:31 GMT -5
My Freightliner has 3100 gallon waste capacity and 300 fresh water for the jetter. This one steps up to 3400 waste and we reduced the fresh water size to only 200 but we can fill on site from a garden hose if need be for long jet clean jobs. Most tanks around here are 1000 gallon septic tanks so this lets us get three normal tanks plus the added wash down water in one load and keep out transport costs to the treatment plant down. I have learned over the last 14 years that profitability is a combo of both increase sales AND cost controls and efficiencies thus the size of the truck.
The nice thing about pumping tanks versus some of the more invasive service jobs is we can stay out of the tanks with full Gore-Tex gear and gloves and glasses and avoid playing in the stuff.
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Post by Lee Martin on Oct 27, 2011 10:08:52 GMT -5
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