A challenge facing many drilling contractors during the 21st century will be a financial life or death struggle to keep their business open while facing problems such as changing financial and economic conditions and unscrupulous customers, according to a trio of drilling contractors.
One of the key factors in that struggle is the extent of the contractor's knowledge of costs of doing business today, said National Ground Water Association President Roger Renner, president of E.H. Renner & Sons of Elk River, MN.