American Liquid Waste Magazine

Here’s a different kind of portable restroom business. Pit Stop’s owner, Charlie Hatler, stands out in the industry with his unique and highly effective business model and world-class marketing ingenuity. We’re grateful to Charlie for taking time out of his busy morning, between fielding calls, to share a little of his company’s story and some […]

Andy Christian had been in communications for a long time. He was a rep for various major carriers, like AT&T, T-Mobile Sprint, and others, handling zoning and permitting for their major utility installations all over the southeast United States. Prior to his communications career, he had a series of jobs, including real estate, owning a […]

In early 2008, a new luxury niche service brought something unique to the Florida wedding and special events market. Edward Garcia opened the doors of Imperial Restrooms, Inc. and began delivering luxury portable restroom rental services in the sunshine state. From the start, the demand for luxury services in the Florida portable restrooms market was […]

Owner and operator of The Lavish Loo, Brad Simpson has realized one of Denver metro’s freshest concepts in portable restroom accommodations. His company goes the full distance and far beyond, to provide the ultimate in luxury restroom facilities for weddings and events in Colorado and surrounding states. These portables are not your average restroom trailers. […]

Seattle is famous for unique businesses that have shifted paradigmatic models in industries from technology to arts. An unassuming brother and sister team have brought that creative energy to effect transformative change in the typical business model of storm water management and an array of environmental management and maintenance services that are not typically operated […]

Will and Kyleen Niccolls’ Green Latrine in Seattle Washington is providing a rare portable restroom benefit for the company’s customers to pass on to their own environmentally conscious customers—green portable restroom service. Seattle Youths Become Green Entrepreneurs We asked Will Niccolls to walk us through his move into the portable toilet industry and the process […]

Edwin and Terry Scott established Piedmont Portables about 24 years ago. Dwight Chandler, COO of The TES Group, parent company of Piedmont Portables, explains that the Scotts didn’t start the business as a sanitation company. They began the business as a special events equipment company that also offered sanitation facilities. The couple launched operations with […]

Fresh off of his international beach vacation, we catch Rich Anderson, owner of Jimmy’s Johnnys, a small business institution in Minneapolis / St. Paul. We try to keep up with Rich as he’s on the move during this interview, as he is throughout every day, per his preference to manage his business from the field. […]

Alvarado Portable Toilets in Reedley California was founded in 1989. Cindy Alvarado explains that she and her husband Sergio started the business because there was a need for a portable toilet company to provide field service units. In our area, it’s all ag (agriculture). We were told that regulations were going to start getting tougher […]

Fancy Flush owners, Roman and Heather Schmidt, worked with professionals in the wedding and wine industries. Roman was not inclined to go into the traditional portable toilet business that his father had been in through Roman’s entire life to that point. So, he and Heather chose a road less traveled—a niche submarket of the industry. […]