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Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business

Pennsylvania’s Regan Wilson uses his training as a mechanic and some industry networking at the WWETT Show to build a new pumping business.
  • Appeared in print as "Getting Schooled"
  • By Ken Wysocky
  • July 2015
  • Cover Story
Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business
Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business

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Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business
Five years into his business, River Valley Septic Inc. marketing-minded owner Regan Wilson has built a large clientele. Part of the reason for his success is the many lessons learned at the Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show. Wilson is shown with his workhorse vacuum truck, a 2002 Mack with a Jurop/Chandler pump built out by National Truck Center.

When Regan Wilson decided to start his own septic service business in 2010 in east-central Pennsylvania, he began with nothing more than a used vacuum truck, some sound financial advice from his father and loads of ambition.

Five years later, the 35-year-old owner of River...

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