Catching up with work and deciding what’s next for his company are the biggest challenges Rick Maguire faces today. It’s a far cry from when a customer reneging on a $200 payment meant the difference between Maguire’s family eating bologna sandwiches or macaroni and cheese.Maguire opened Maguire Backhoe in Virden, Illinois, in January 1996 at age 32. That year, he accepted any project suitable for a rubber-tired backhoe and installed a total of 20 conventional and sand filter onsite systems. “I borrowed $80,000 to buy the machine and a dump truck and mortgaged everything to the hilt,” he says.Driven by
