History... Peil Sanitation began as a one-man operation back in 1974. Founder Loren Peil explains, "Clarence Cihlar told me about a company going out of business in Little Chute… and I went down and bought their truck."  Loren's wife Annie applied her artistic hand to the exterior. It was a 1956 Chevy that lasted for a year and then Loren put the tank on a different chassis. Thirty years ago there were only two people in the sanitation business in Door County. The other one was Emory Larson whose brother in Sturgeon Bay made the tanks that were attached to a truck chassis to set up a working sanitation pump truck.   Loren began the sanitation business after hours as a sideline. He was working days with his father, Roland Peil, a general contractor in Door County. When holding tanks started to appear a few years later the business would begin a period of steady growth. Loren recalls, "The first holding tank I pumped was at the Blue Ox in 1976." Loren's own son Kevin grew up in the business. "I was 10 years old when Dad bought that first truck," says Kevin. "And I went with him to pick it up." After finishing high school in 1981 Kevin went on to tech school and became a certified auto and diesel mechanic. He worked for a short time at Sister Bay Motors, but Kevin soon returned to take on the role of Chief Mechanic at Peil Sanitation and also did the bookkeeping. Kevin added his own truck to the fleet in 1985. In 1996 Loren Peil retired, as he puts it, "To a seven-day-a-week job with my wife Annie, running Orphan Annie's Schoolhouse Inn in Baileys Harbor." Kevin carries on the family business and continues to provide the same dependable service that has made Peil Sanitation one of Door County's most trusted firms. Latest developments include the launch of Stinger Trucking, a contract-hauling business that provides the services of a quad-axle dump truck with 18 cubic yard capacity.