Editorial10 Years Later, Douglas Hurrelbrink Is Confident About Handling the Hoses

10 Years Later, Douglas Hurrelbrink Is Confident About Handling the Hoses

A Missouri pumper has made good on a plan to sharpen service offerings, increase profitability and focus on professionalism.

  • Appeared in print as "Better? You Bet!"
  • By Peter Kenter
  • July 2024
  • Cover Story
10 Years Later, Douglas Hurrelbrink Is Confident About Handling the Hoses
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10 Years Later, Douglas Hurrelbrink Is Confident About Handling the Hoses

The Austin’s Pumping Service crew includes, from left, (front row) Austin Harris, Carl Warner, Jason Cooper, Amelia Crow, Jack Crow, Jeffrey Beasley; (back row) Jacob Walker, Braxton Shelburn, Garth Villa, Chad Hurrelbrink, Austin Hurrelbrink, Tristan Crow, Mark Dever, Connor Johnson, Douglas Hurrelbrink, Elizabeth Hurrelbrink, Laura Crow (Photos by Denny Medley)

Douglas Hurrelbrink has learned many lessons about running a pumping company over the last 10 years since Pumper first featured his company, Austin’s Pumping Service in Strafford, Missouri. He discovered that portable sanitation was too labor-intensive for his operation, that...

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