You might have caught this on the news this week: a driver with a medical condition crashes into a fueling car at a dispenser island, causing a major fire. An [...]

I recently attended the National Institute for Storage Tank Management ( You may or may not know there’s an office in Washington DC that directs national UST policy and works [...]

A typical 3-tank UST system totaling 30,000 gallons of product might seem like a lot of fuel but it’s nothing compared to the 250,000,000 gallon UST system near Pearl Harbor [...]

Took a few days off and camped at Fort Stevens on the Oregon Coast. Even there, on the furthest reaches on the continental western US, I can’t get away from [...]

June 23 marks the 11th Anniversary since Ben Thomas provided the nation’s very first state approved Class A/B UST operator training class in Portland Oregon. That’s right: the very first [...]

Kentucky provides free online training for their Designated Compliance Managers (DCM’s) which is the state term for combined Class A and B UST operators. UST Training helped develop this very [...]

The Association of State and Territorial Sold Waste Management Officials or ASTSWMO recently published a report summarizing the most common UST violations in the US, which can be seen as [...]

Here’s a few of our favorites. As a Class A/B operator we hope you know where yours is located and what these pictures are humorous. Have any originals you’d like [...]

Second Class in Saipan. The graduates! UST Training recently won the contract to return to the register today!

By Ben Thomas Not everyone can say they started their career by climbing into an excavation pit containing a leaking underground storage tank but I guess I wasn’t destined to [...]