Tank Transport - February 2011

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Attn: OEM’s, Distributors, Maintenance Facilities, and Tank Cleaning Facilities.

Make sure you are listed in our upcoming 2011 Product Service Directory and Buyer’s Guide.

Contact us if you don’t receive your Product Service Directory participation packet by February 15, 2011.

Merger proves boon for
septic company

We’ve all known of unlikely marriages between dissimilar individuals that grew into immensely loving, supportive and successful partnerships -- proving the doubters wrong. Those spouses were clearly able to look deeper and see strengths and advantages to the union that others couldn’t.

We can imagine a similar series of reactions from observers, starting 16 years ago, when City Fuel Co. in Manchester, N.H., purchased Dave’s Septic Service from the original Dave. At the time, City Fuel was a relatively large company, providing heating oil services to residential customers. Dave’s Septic -- a considerably smaller, mostly seasonal business -- rented about 150 portable restroom facilities, handled 3,000 residential pumping accounts, and had $400,000 in annual revenues.

“We were looking for a way to
keep our rural City Fuel oil truck
drivers busy in the off-season,” said
George Winslow, general manager
of both companies. “Along came this
opportunity.”
About the only thing they had in
common, to the casual observer,
was that both served residential
customers. But that actually was the
key to the relationship’s success.

“Both are homeowner services,
so the transition between heating
oil and septic customers was
pretty easy for marketing and for
our straightforward, professional
approach,” Winslow said.”
From a business angle, the proof is
in the figures: In this marriage with
City Fuel, Dave’s Septic has grown to

Section XII hazmat code
represents progress
by Monte Ward
Credo expanding drilling
in Texas
Pipelines carrying higher
share of crude

The U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) has given
advance notice of rulemaking to adopt
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) Section XII,
“Rules for Design, Construction and
Continued Service for Transport
Tanks,” as part of federal regulations.
Currently DOT regulations require
that hazardous materials (hazmat)
be transported in tanks built and
sometimes certified to ASME Code,
Section VIII, “Unfired Pressure
Vessels.”
What is Section XII and what
Denver, Colo.-based Credo
Petroleum Corp. recently updated
its horizontal drilling activities in
the Texas Panhandle, according to
company officials.

U.S. crude oil and product pipelines continued to increase their share of total domestic petroleum transportation in 2008, the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) said last month in its latest annual report.

“Pipelines accounted for 71 percent of all petroleum transportation in 2008, up from 66.8 percent in 2007 and 54 percent in 1990,” said Andrew Black, AOPL president.

In total, ton-miles of crude oil and products for all modes of transport have declined from 1.08 trillion ton-miles in 1990 to about 0.88 trillion ton miles in 2008, an average rate of

(Merger continued on page 18)

(Section XII continued on page 18)

(Credo continued on page 21)

(Pipelines continued on page 19)

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