One Truck, One Proud Family and Almost 80 Years in the Pumping Industry

A-1 Septic’s “Big Blue,” their single Classy Truck rig has supported the family business for 16 years and counting

One Truck, One Proud Family and Almost 80 Years in the Pumping Industry

Brian and Tamara Russell pose with Big Blue, the truck her father, Henry Howland Jr., ordered 16 years ago. As a surprise for her father, Tamara entered the truck for Pumper’s Classy Truck, and it appeared in the magazine in 2009 shortly before he passed away.

Guess I’m still on my two weeks.

That’s the joke Brian Russell continues to make occasionally, more than two decades after taking over the fieldwork for A-1 Septic Tank Cleaning from his father-in-law, Henry Howland Jr. What was initially proposed as a two-week gig while...

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