It’s HOT! and not just the temperature, business is hot. The kids are back in school, but business is still booming for us.

During the summer, we get a lot of our business from summer concert, fairs, sporting events, festivals and other fun events that help make summer - summer.

Here are just a few of the places we could be seen this week: Alameda, Oakland, Treasure Island, Hollister,Del Monte Golf Course, Berkeley and Ft. Mason.

Business continues to boom to the point where we needed to get another new truck. With service yards in Pleasanton and Gilroy, we needed more wheels to get the job done.

We’re having a lot of fun growing this business and meeting our clients’ needs. Give us a call we can help you with temporary fencing and portable toilets in the following communities:  Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Brisbane, Burlingame, Cupertino, Daly City, Danville, Dublin, Emeryville, Foster City, Fremont,Gilroy, Hayward, Castro Valley, Livermore, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Milpitas, Mountain View, Oakland, Pacifica, Pleasanton, Redwood City, Richmond, San Bruno, San Jose, San Francisco, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Ramon, Santa Clara, Saratoga, South San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Union City, Walnut Creek, and Watsonville.

Portable Toilet News You Don’t Want to Miss

Tampa, Florida (The Weekly Vice) — Lorenzo Earl Knight, a 22-year-old Florida man was arrested on burglary and theft charges after police say he broke into a vehicle and then hid in a nearby portable toilet. Before police arrived however, Mr. Knight discovered why a port-a-potty is the last place a burglar wants to hide.

Investigators say the incident began when Lorenzo Knight broke into a 1999 Ford F-150 in a mall parking lot Saturday and allegedly stole a $500 digital camera along with it’s owner’s manual.

Knight was attempting to break into a 2nd truck, when the automobile’s owner and a friend spotted him and gave chase, according to the police report.

Knight fled the scene to a nearby construction site and attempted to hide in a portable toilet that was also on the site. The truck’s owner and his friend soon caught up to Knight and tipped the portable toilet over, trapping Knight inside the toilet until police could arrive.

When officers arrived, they found Knight still inside the toilet, soaking wet in the toilet’s contents. Authorities also recovered a screwdriver that Knight used to jimmy the truck’s lock and a shoe he left at the scene, according to Tampa Police.

Knight was arrested on the “spot” and charged with two counts of burglary and one count of grand theft. He was booked into the Orient Road Jail and then released Sunday morning after posting a $6,000 bond.

Wille gives San Francisco portable toilets his 5am seal of approval!

Nicole at A-1 PortableToilets in Conway, Arkansas provides us with another case of “portable toilet blown to hell.”

The need for portable toilets seems to be growing in the San Francisco Bay Area. any thoughts on that???

At least our business is growing. The new site in Pleasanton is helping us cope with increased demand and helping us keep our feul costs down - which is good for our customers.

The summer season continues to keep us extremely busy. It’s hard to find 15 minutes to post something pithy on our blog. Suffice it to say, that customer service comes before blogging!

Just wondering how many miles of temporary fencing the Chinese had to erect for the Olympics. If you can find the figure I may reward you with a hamburger at the Red Robin in Pleasanton or The Counter in Walnut Creek.

With the recent growth of our business that provides the temporary fencing and portable restrooms to special events and construction sites, we decided to open an location in Pleasanton.  I personally wanted to have a location in the bay area for some time.  It will allows us to answer their needs of our customers in a timely manner and it will finially allow me me to work in my community.  It is very exciting for us and I can already tell that our business is going to benefit directly from this new location.

We have watched fuel costs double and the driving times increase during the peak hours, which can make it difficult to be on time if the customer has requested us to be there at 7am.  Additionally, we find that we service our customers each week and it becomes critical to be within a 30-40 mile radius to meet their expectations.  I have quicky learned that telling someone you will be there to help them in 30 minutes or less can make them a life long customer.  We look forward to being a part of Pleasanton!

When Disaster Strikes - Portable Toilets are Needed

The recent fires in California remind me of how portable toilets are one of the key resources needed in disaster situations. Whether it is California wildfires, an earthquake, a mudslide, flood or even a typhoon - when disaster strikes, sanitation is a major concern.

In such situations, we have hundreds of single portable toilet units available. Our VIP Temporary Restrooms are mounted on trailers for portability and convenience. They’re solar powered and can be delivered to the front lines for emergency crews.

Clean drinking water is also a concern in disaster situations. Our potable water tanks fill that need.

A couple of other situations that may require a portable toilet or temporary restroom.

• Bathroom Remodel
• Family Reunions

Portable Toilet Art

No post on portable toilets would be complete without a picture of graffiti artist, Banksy’s - Stonehenge made of - you guessed it - portable toilets!

Temporary Fencing Helps Support San Francisco Bay Area Economy

It’s not sexy and you won’t find it in the Victoria’s Secret catalog, but temporary fencing is being Googled. Okay, there weren’t 100K searches for temporary fencing this week, but it was mentioned on over a dozen blogs.

Temporary fencing isn’t at the forefront of most people’s minds unless they have a construction site that needs securing, a sporting event coming up, a parade, a traffic reroute or some other need. Last time I added it all up we had about 1.31 gillion miles of various temporary fencing panels to supply the greater San Francisco Bay Area with (just kidding). We have miles and miles of fencing, but not in the gillions.

The temporary site service business is one of the many “invisible small businesses” that go unnoticed. And yet, it is the small business network that employ more people and pump more money into the local economies than the big boys.

Searches on temporary fencing in Monterey, San Jose, Mountain View and Fremont won’t burn up the servers at Google, but like everything else - when people want something, the Internet is usually the first place they go to find it and we at Hanson & Fitch are here in cyberspace ready to respond to your temporary fencing needs.

With this weeks hot weather we are all moving a little slower around the office and at the yard.  We typically get to the yard before 7am and lately it feels like it is 80 degrees already.  You know when you feel hot and uncomfortable at the start of the day it is going to be a long one.  By Noon you are looking for a watering hole and begin thinking of what it was like when you were 10 years old running through the sprinklers trying to stay cool.  At 5pm the sun is just getting started and you looking for anything that resembles a tree or roof that can extend a moment of shade.  At 7pm you are listening to the news and are hoping for a down turn in the temperature gauge and you learn that it is going to get even hotter as the week rolls on.  Everyone seems to be complaining about the heat this week, but after it gets over 105 degree’s who’s counting?  Here’s to cooler days.

When people call for portable toilet or temporary restrooms, one of the first questions we get is - how many portable toilets for my event will I need? There are several factors that need to be considered:

• How many attendees do you expect?
• How long will the event last?
• Will alcohol be served?
• What is the weather likely to be?
• What level of physical activity is involved?

We are specialists in providing toilets for all types of events whether it involves a small group or a large crowd. We serve the entire San Francisco Bay Area including: Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Danville and all the surrounding communities.

Here is a chart to help you begin your planning.

I’ll bet most people don’t track news about portable toilets, but when you’re in the portable toilet and temporary restroom business, you need to stop every now and then to smell the roses! Providing temporary site services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to communities like San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco can be challenging at times, but some of the stories in the news about portable toilets this week made me thankful for small blessings.

There were about 200 mentions of portable toilets this past week on blog postings. Isn’t that wild??!!! Most of them are posts about local events mentioning that portable toilets will be available at the event. From rock concerts and political rallies to boy scout jamborees - where you find people, you need to find toilets.

Here are a few of the portable toilet stories I came across:

• From South Africa - Portable Toilets being used to threaten the poor
• Up in Washington - Teens arrested for blowing up portable toilets
• In Brooklyn - Thieves beat up a guard and stuff him in a toilet
• In Rancho Cordova - Portable toilet fire destroys little league equipment

We are in the midst of our busiest summer. This year we added over 100 portable toilets to our inventory and we could probably use 100 more. Our temporary VIP restrooms are getting us a lot of positive feedback from clients.

We are working 7 days a week now to meet the demand. Customer service and satisfaction are always at the top of our list.

Infineon Raceway is exploding with race fans and soaring temperatures today.  There are literally thousands of people watching this weekends big NASCAR Race in Sonoma, CA.

If you ever get a chance to take a birds eye view from any of the vistas along the track, you will see bright colors of tents, trucks and of course colorful race cars going a few hundred miles an hour towards the finish line.  Friday drew more race fans than expected, which is always a sign of what’s to come.  The staff at Infineon moved quickly to install more crowd control fencing from Hanson & Fitch to make sure that the people stay safe and allow pedestrian traffic to move freely along the pathways.t.  The feedback from the spectators has been very positive and the perception is that the race is well organized.  One fan commented, “when you don’t think about crowds or being worried about seeing the cars go around track, you know there was a lot of preparation done to put on this race”.