Save the date for the 17th Annual FTA Drug and Alcohol Program National Conference on April 2-4, 2024 in Atlanta, GA at the Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street NE.
The three-day conference is for Drug and Alcohol Program Managers and other transit officials. The workshop will offer sessions to foster a better understanding of the FTA Prevention of Alcohol Misuse and Prohibited Drug Use in Transit Operations (49 CFR Part 655) and U.S. Department of Transportation Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs (49 CFR Part 40).
This conference is free of charge and registration for the conference will open in January 2024. More information to come!
Links:
FTA Drug & Alcohol Program
Let me tell you something most septic companies will not: there are two kinds of people in this reality. Those who think septic systems are merely “buried containers for waste,” and those who’ve had raw sewage bubbling into their property at 2 AM. I learned this distinction the hard way in 2005—knee-deep in muck, freezing in a Washington downpour, as my family and I aided a grizzled installer repair our family’s broken system. I was a teenager. My hands ached. My pants were wrecked. But that evening, something crystallized: This isn’t just dirt work. It’s families’ lives we are preserving.
Let me share the harsh truth: nearly all septic companies just maintain tanks. They act like quick-fix salesmen at a demolition convention. But Septic Solutions? They are unique. It all originated back in the early 2000s when Art and his brothers—just kids barely tall enough to carry a shovel—assisted install their family’s septic system alongside a experienced pro. Imagine this: three pre-teens waist-deep in Pennsylvania clay, learning how soil permeability affects drainage while their peers played Xbox. “We did not just dig trenches,” Art explained to me last winter, steaming coffee cup in hand. “We discovered how ground whispers truths. A patch of cattails here? That’s Mother Nature screaming ‘high water table.'”
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This is the harsh truth: the majority of HVAC failures happen because someone ignored a step. Did not calculate the load correctly. Used undersized equipment. Got wrong the insulation needs. We’ve personally fixed dozens of these disasters. And each and every time, we remember another insight. Like in 2017, when we started adding smart thermostats to each install. Why? Because Sarah, our senior tech, got frustrated of watching homeowners waste money on bad temperature settings. Now clients save 20-30% yearly.
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