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Before you even start looking at truck makers and field-testing different models, it’s good to at least have a general idea of what you need. Determining capacity, size, reel configuration and some other factors ahead of time will make the process easier.
When Elizabethton’s sewer and water departments in Tennessee merged, they had to decide how to handle a system of mostly 100-year-old vitrified clay sewer. Part of their formula for success was purchasing a carefully spec’d combination jet/vac unit.
“We knew we were going to...