Date posted
Jan
22
With the 47th Annual Nuts & Bolts Conference in February 2024 in Scottsdale, Arizona, you may be curious as to how these internationally recognized...
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Learn more about the history of the Portable Sanitation industry
Date posted
Dec
16
Portable sanitation had a role to play in 1999 as the world raced to reconfigure computer systems ahead of Y2K. What was Y2K and why was it so...
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Date posted
Dec
2
From the first motorized sewage truck patent in 1907 by American inventor George Blickensderfer to today, service trucks for portable sanitation...
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Date posted
Nov
18
Imagine a world where personal computers are a rarity, cell phones are in early development and coverage is lacking, printed and hand-drawn maps are...
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Date posted
Nov
15
Honey Bucket (based in Puyallup, Washington) is a long-time pioneer in our industry. They're doing it again with electric trucks! Honey Bucket put...
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Date posted
Nov
1
In London in the early 1920s, an entrepreneur named Ephraim Louis Jackson identified a need for indoor sanitation in these new areas where sewage...
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Date posted
Oct
21
A PSAI member provided the portable sanitation units during construction of the CN Tower—still the tallest structure in the western hemisphere
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Date posted
Oct
7
We have all heard that our industry had its beginnings in the shipyards during World War II—but how did this happen?
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Date posted
Sep
23
Two PSAI members reminisce about the "joys" of painting wooden portable sanitation units. Learn about Spatz Paints, one of our association's early...
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Date posted
Sep
6
A PSAI charter member helped make history as part of "Woodstock the Movie"
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Date posted
Aug
26
Portable sanitation at the Daytona 500 evolved along with the race cars
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Date posted
Aug
12
Woodstock ranks as one of the largest music festivals of its time. The 3-day event in August 1969 was expected to draw around 50,000 attendees, but...
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