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Sage Oil Vac most often supplies LubeBuilder systems to customers with crane bodies, work trucks and van installations but as the popularity of the system increases a need for additional used filter receptacle (UFR) options has presented itself. To better meet the needs of our customers’ unique install situations we are now offering:

The wall-mounted UFR is tall with a narrower width. It works great for van or enclosed body installations where it can be anchored to a wall to help support it. It would also work well up against the inside wall of a tall work truck body. The door opens toward the operator and the hinge runs vertically. The top side pack mounted UFR design is meant for the top of a side pack on a service body. The lid opens up like a traditional UFR and the operator can access it from the ground or from the bed. The additional UFR are meant to be mounted inside the bed of the body on the floor. These come in different sizes like 14, 24 and 30-inch widths for a variety of options.

The Sage UFR has been one of our standout featured products since the inception of the company. It is valued by all industries as an essential tool to complete clean oil changes. The UFR works by allowing oil filters to hot drain, which ensures the cleanest possible solution for oil changes and filter changes in the field. Nearly every Sage Oil Vac unit has a UFR as part of the standard equipment offering and over the years UFRs have also been incorporated into Sage skid, trailers and now LubeBuilder designs.

For more information about Sage Oil Vac’s LubeBuilder system or Used Filter Receptacle products, visit SageOilVac.com or contact a dealer near you.

Not enough good things can be said about wind energy. For years scientists have urged world leaders to encourage countries to create alternate sources of clean energy, like wind power, a priority and it seems many have listened. According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the number of wind turbines spinning around the world at the end of 2016 was 341,320. Not only is this great news for our environment, it’s great news for Sage Oil Vac.

Benefits of Wind Power

Wind turbines which convert the energy from wind to generate electricity, require a gear box to function and maintenance is essential to keep parts working properly. Sage Wind Turbine Generator Solutions systems were designed to provide turbine service providers with a safer way to manage oil, antifreeze changes and more. The Gear Oil Exchange (GOEX) unit which was designed in 2007, and the Flush and Rinse unit which was designed in 2010, are now in over 15 countries around the world. In 2016-2017, Sage added Mexico, Japan and Brazil to that list.

“Japan and Mexico are fairly new to the wind energy marketplace,” said Sage Oil Vac CEO Aaron Sage. “It’s great to see our products helping in such a beneficial industry. We’re looking forward to increasing shipments around the world to make turbine servicings easier and safer to manage.”

The GOEX features an onboard filtration system that cleans oil to meet ISO-approved levels with zero-cross contamination to significantly reduce the amount of wear particles in gearboxes. With cleaner oil and a greater frequency of oil changes, you can significantly increase the lifetime of any wind gearbox. A rinse and flush process is also required in turbine maintenance to remove contamination and sediment in many wind turbine gearboxes. Both units provide proactive maintenance approaches to help increase lubricant life and equipment durability.

For more information about Sage Oil Vac’s wind solution offerings, visit SageOilVac.com or contact a dealer near you.

Murphy Contracting Company, a commercial, industrial and residential earthmoving business located in London, Ontario, Canada, was established by Ron and Karen Murphy in 1999 with three scrapers and one bulldozer to their name. However, in the past 18 years, the Murphy fleet has grown to more than 150 pieces of equipment and now two Sage Oil Vac Lubebuilder systems.

“It took a lot of work to get this far,” said Dan Sullivan Mechanic at Murphy Contracting. “At the 2017 CONEXPO we purchased a Sage LubeBuilder system to install on a couple of our trucks. The kit arrived and we were able to install it in-house. The install went fairly well — it was a bit tricky getting everything we wanted in such a small area on our trucks, but with the variety of tank configurations it worked out very well.”

The Sage LubeBuilder system was added to two Murphy Contracting PM trucks with the following specs:

“We pride ourselves on our commercial, industrial and residential site work abilities,” Sullivan said. “These Sage Lubebuilder systems have only expedited our ability to complete construction contracts efficiently and quickly now that we can service equipment on-site. I really enjoy being able to vaccum oil — not having to pump or gravity feed oil to fill product tanks makes the process very convenient

Sullivan says the LubeBuilder systems have cut Murphy equipment service times in half.

“It is important to have the right tools for the job,” Sullivan said. “We have reached the size where we can cater to the diverse requirements of our valued clients. Since inception, one of our main goals was to expand our capabilities. From our ability to complete cell excavations, to methane gas lines, to leachate systems, to landfill cell liners — we have completed projects of various sizes and complications to reach that goal.”

For more information about Murphy Contracting and their services, visit MurphyContracting.com. 

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This March, Sage Oil Vac launched its first-ever Lube Skid Sweepstakes at the 2017 CONEXPO-CON/AGG Show. For four days, hopeful attendees entered our drawing to win the use of one of our covetted lube skids for an entire year. With hundreds of participants, the odds were favorable to many but fortunate to just one winner.

Meet the winner — Brandt Boone, Equipment Manager of Lester Contracting in Port Lavaca, Texas, entered the Sage Oil Vac booth just like countless others, but the luck of the draw put him a cut above the rest.

“I went to CONEXPO with some of my Lester Contracting counterparts,” Boone said. “I have been interested in the past year or so in getting the company a lube skid for our mechanics, so we were visiting as many people with skids as possible to see the things they had to offer.”

Lester Contracting has served the surrounding areas of South Texas as a civil contractor since 1959. Their primary services include dirt work and utilities (water and sewer).

“The Lester Contracting Vice President received an email that we had won and I was excited to try out the lube demo,” Boone recalled. “It will give us something to do our large-scale and smaller oil changes ourselves. At the moment we actually have to (hire out) to have some of our large-scale oil changes done.”

The Sage Oil Vac Lube Skid Sweepstakes offered its winner the chance to choose the lube skid that they will get to use for their demo period. With eight different models to choose from, the Lester Contracting group went through each model with a Sage representative to decide the right fit for their company.

“I set up a conference with two of our heavy machine mechanics and we talked about our large-scale oil changes and what we needed,” Boone said. “We talked about the types of oil we needed for each machine and we kind of came to a consensus of how we would want our skid to be built and what types of tanks.”

Lester Contracting decided to go with the 2H48-5 Heritage Lube skid with one 120-gallon used oil tank, four 60-gallon fresh oil tanks, five 50-foot reels and a grease package to be placed in an enclosed trailer. Each Heritage model is built to be robust and heavy duty with a smaller footprint — the perfect choice for trucks.

“Our Sage Oil Vac lube skid line is what really sets us apart from competitors within the industry, so we’re eager to hear feedback from the Lester Contracting company as the demo year progresses,” said Aaron Sage, Sage Oil Vac CEO.

Boone also anticipates the year to come with the Sage Heritage skid and is excited to bring boosted productivity and cost savings to the company.

“If we can cut costs and save money using a Sage skid that would be extremely beneficial to our company,” Boone said.

 

You asked and we listened. Sage Oil Vac is now prepared to bring your mobile lube equipment dreams full circle with our new custom color options. For years, the standard color for truck bodies has been oil vac white, and the standard colors for trailers, skids and carts have been oil vac yellow tanks with oil vac gray unit frames. But after seeing the increasing inquires for custom colors, Sage decided it was time to create more options. For an additional per unit upcharge, we now offer a select palette (see below) of new paint choices. Customers can also elect to provide their own color specifications outside of the color palette, but will be subject to an additional one-time color match fee.

Sage Oil Vac Paint Process

1.Verify paint selection with customer.

2.Pressure wash frames with a degreaser to remove mill oil and blast fabricated frames with Garnett, to prep to surface for paint.

3.Paint system using PPG Industrial Urethane DTM paint.

4.Touch up product as needed.

Please contact Sage Oil Vac for more specific paint information and custom pricing upcharges. View the color options here.

Every entrepreneur’s road to success is unique and one of a kind, Sage Oil Vac lives for the days when their equipment can help boost business. Eric Sanchez, owner and operator of EV Powerwash & Lube, LLC in Midland, Texas, says coming across Sage did just that.

In 2013, Sanchez was a physical therapist by trade, but he just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to take advantage of the booming oil economy.

“I started with just a $400 powerwasher and a truck, and for a while I would just go around and wash oil transport vehicles,” Sanchez said. “Then in 2014, I started leasing an old gas station and I converted it into a lube shop where we did oil changes, safety inspections and powerwashes on just passenger vehicles.”

As his business clientele grew, Sanchez began to reach out to more commercial customers to see if they would be receptive to using him for their on-site personal maintenance (PM) needs.

“I started out doing personal maintenance for a couple customers that had transports and that is when I met Dwayne Green at Oil Patch Power and bought a Sage Oil Vac PM unit to continue doing that,” Sanchez said. “The big break was when I gained the business of ProPetro.”

ProPetro, a Midland, Texas-based oil field services company, provides hydraulic fracturing and other services to North American oil and gas companies.

“They let me start with their transport engine maintenance,” Sanchez recalled. “Once we built their confidence with that, they slowly started letting us work on their hydraulic pumps which require much larger engines with a lot more oil and filters. Now we’re doing maybe 60-70 percent of their equipment PM services.”

After Sanchez established ProPetro as a regular client, work requests from other companies started rolling in. This lead to a few more purchases from Green at Oil Patch Power and several new hires to his team.

“It’s been fast, it started as a leap of faith and it’s worked out,” Sanchez said. “I started with five employees and now I’m up to 30.”

EV Powerwash & Lube, LLC currently utilizes two Sage Oil Vac PM trailers and three lube skids. With the increasing jobsite no-spill regulations, Sanchez said the Sage equipment has really helped keep things clean.

“Everything we do has to be properly contained, properly vacuumed and disposed of, which is something we encounter with oil changes,” Sanchez explained. “Sage has made our job more efficient and more productive. It’s worked very well for us and the equipment is very well built. It’s definitely been a part of our success.”

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We hear all about the hoops our customers jump through to appease their various jobsites, but there’s one restriction that has been gaining momentum in the last two years that has got our attention — no-spill jobsites. Yes, you read that right — construction contractors, building developers and fleet maintenance companies everywhere are turning to Sage Oil Vac because they need a solution to the signed agreements they have with customers stating the jobsite has a zero tolerance for any used oil spills.

“Two of our fleet maintenance customers who specialize in on-site oil changes have expressed that they could be potentially kicked off a site for even the slightest spill of used oil,” said Sage Oil Vac CEO, Aaron Sage. “As you can imagine, this can be very intimidating with class 8 trucks. These are engines that hold 12 gallons of oil each and they have to make sure they get the oil out of the truck without spilling a drop.”

Using Sage Oil Vac equipment systems in conjunction with Femco Drain Plugs allows the operator to connect directly to the engine sump or the engine component that is being drained. This eliminates the intermediate step of draining oil into an open container, not only removing the risk for spills, but cutting out an extra step entirely. Oil will be exchanged directly into the Sage use oil tank and ready for transport to proper disposal.

“With a jobsite close to water, it’s understandable to see that zero tolerance for spills,” Aaron said. “We have customers working with refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast successfully using the Sage and Femco combination. It’s all about working smarter, not harder.”

“It’s not your granddad’s jobsite anymore,” Aaron said. “As companies have become more environmentally conscious, spills will become less tolerable. It’s important to stay a step ahead of the game now and switch to equipment that can meet these needs.”

For more information about Sage Oil Vac equipment systems, contact Sage.

We can give away free Sage Oil Vac swag and talk up our amazing pump-free exchange systems until we’re blue in the face at the 2017 CONEXPO-CON/AGG show, but why just tell you about it when we can send you home with it? Yes, you read that right. We’re putting our equipment to the ultimate test — we’re giving away the use of a Sage lube skid for an entire year to one lucky winner.

“Our Sage Oil Vac lube skid line is what really sets us apart from competitors within the industry,” said CEO Aaron Sage. “It’s our flagship product and we’re market leaders in customizing skid packages.”

Right now, you’re probably saying something like: All right I’m in. How does the Sage Oil Vac Lube Skid Sweepstakes work? Easy. Just stop by Sage Oil Vac’s booth (S63129) at the 2017 CONEXPO-CON/AGG Show (March 7-11) or go to our online landing page: www.SageOilVac.com/CONEXPO2017 to read the official sweepstakes terms and conditions and submit your information to enter. The winner (who will be chosen at random) will then get to select the skid model they wish to use for a year.

“Anyone with heavy equipment that needs maintaining (so everyone) should enter this sweepstakes,” Aaron said. “If they win, they can pick their lube skid model and choose the unit that best fits their operation’s needs.”

With eight different models to choose from — Sage lube skids are often found in crane trucks, van bodies and mechanics’ trucks. Sage skids are great for servicing light towers, generators and trucking fleets with their smaller fluid capacities. These units are best suited to work vehicles with air compressors already mounted. Forklift pockets and mounting holes are standard in all skid models for easy transport. Our signature Sage Oil Vac pump-free design, creates a low maintenance skid with an estimated 10+ year product life.

“The best part of this product line is that it’s so versatile with all the different model sizes,” Aaron said. “The most popular model is a 2M46-3100 service skid which works well in the construction and ag industries as well as third party service companies who maintain fleets.”

With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Sage Oil Vac is encouraging everyone to enter online, even if they’re not attending the show.

“What we hear the most from our customers is that they love being able to end the day without having to change clothes — they usually end the day as clean as when they started,” Aaron said. “Couple that with faster fluid exchanges and low maintenance costs, and I think our product quality speaks for itself.”

Sage Oil Vac, a market leader in professional lube equipment, is excited to announce the launch of its next ‘big’ product innovation — the NextLube monitor system. While it might not be large in size, the all-new NextLube monitor system will bring huge improvements in terms of productivity and ease of use.

Sage Oil Vac NextLubeNextLube will allow operators to integrate data while incorporating automation and fluid control with Sage Oil Vac mobile lube equipment. Based on customer feedback, Sage is developing this system to allow for more operator control with a touch screen centralized control panel to take out the manual actuation of valves.

“Based on customer feedback, we developed NextLube to allow more operator control,” said Sage Oil Vac CEO, Aaron Sage. “NextLube will act as a centralized control panel, so operators can have automated fluid dispense capabilities and monitoring within Sage Oil Vac mobile lube equipment.”

NextLube also streamlines maintenance operations by providing real-time fluid levels, totalized quantities of oil dispensed, flow rates and oil temperatures, all while having the capability to tie into existing customer telematics operations. It will also streamline maintenance operations by creating the ability to label individual tanks for quick recognition and organization. With more information to be given to the operator, this product will simplify the job by reducing the learning curve for new operators.

The intuitive touch screen panel will bring a straightforward presentation of information to every job as an optional add-on to Sage Oil Vac equipment. NextLube will display the gallons within the tanks, instead of the percentage, making the process easier for the technician to determine the amount of oil available to complete an exchange. More safety features and logic will be built into the system.

“The overall digitization of what has previously been a manual process creates additional possibilities in future updates,” Aaron said. “This could include running the system from an app on a smartphone or tablet, or incorporating back-end costs and telematics to specific equipment. The sky is the limit.”

NextLube system among top construction innovations

Each year, Construction Equipment magazine recognizes the industry’s most innovative new products — as well as companies’ commitment to research and development critical to bringing them to market — in its Top 100 New Products Award program.

After a lengthy review of the myriad products new to the construction equipment sector in the last year, the 2018 list includes a big innovation from Sage Oil Vac, the NextLube monitor system.

“We considered several hundred product introductions in the process that led us to [the NextLube monitor system],” said Construction Equipment editorial director Rod Sutton. “Our editors made these selections independently, drawing upon our own experience with equipment technology and the equipment marketplace.”

That spirit of innovation and continued work to improve upon the NextLube system in the future was also a key component of the Construction Equipment Top 100 New products of 2018 Awards program.

“These awards serve to emphasize innovations, highlighting manufacturers who are investing in research and development. Their investments pay off for equipment users in the form of greater productivity, efficiency and safety,” Sutton said. “They also ensure a competitive marketplace.”

Contact your local Sage Oil Vac dealer for more information.

The entrepreneurial spirit is as important to Sage Oil Vac as it is to one of its most successful dealers, Cobalt Truck Equipment.

Just two years after Gary Sage founded Sage Oil Vac in 1993, Dan Duncan, President and owner of Cobalt Truck Equipment, opened shop in Idaho. Today, both companies are thriving and working together to bring the best products to customers within the construction, utility and heavy equipment industries.

“Cobalt’s introduction to Sage Oil Vac started with our interest and the needs of our customers for servicing wind equipment,” said Cobalt Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Paul Bedke. “Once the relationship developed, we discovered Sage met even more of our customers’ needs outside of wind power.”

Cobalt Truck Equipment works from four locations across the U.S. to provide customers with quality mechanics trucks, lube trucks, utility bodies, platforms, vans and more.

“Cobalt customers that use Sage products have been very pleased with the performance and efficiency of the Sage design,” Bedke said. “One customer in particular has converted all of their truck specifications to include the Sage waste oil system.”

Sage has provided on-site training to all four Cobalt locations (Nampa, Idaho; Spokane, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; and San Antonio, Texas). In addition, Sage sales representatives have participated in multiple trade shows and events with the Cobalt sales team.

“The lube trailers are some of the more popular items for our sales reps,” Bedke said. “The trailers provide diversity with our customers and their service trucks without the large investment of a dedicated lube truck.”

Cobalt currently offers the entire Sage Oil Vac product line.

“Sage is a good company with a long history in the vacuum-operated lube equipment business,” Bedke said. “They are very responsive to customer demands and do their best to provide a solution to meet those needs.”

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