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It’s hard to believe the great decade of the eighties is thirty years past, as gotügo proudly celebrate its 30th anniversary! 1980 was not only gotügo’s inception year but the beginning of an innovative portable restroom solutions company. For thirty years now, gotügo has thrived and grown within an industry not exactly run with the best business practices in mind. In 2007, however, gotügo went through an entire transformation of their image and their products in the efforts to give the company and the industry a whole new perspective!

As marketing efforts were set in motion for a complete re-branding campaign, products and services were researched with great enthusiasm. Not only did gotügo add over 500 new portable restroom units to its fleet but 15 state-of-the-art portable restroom trailers and trucks equipped with the finest technology on the market today. Our trucks have top-of-the-line GPS systems monitored by our brand new operations center to make sure all your service needs are met most efficiently.

From GPS units to high efficient routing systems, gotügo constantly updates its fleet to provide products and services unmatched among its competitors. From portable units and restroom trailers to our superior customer service skills, gotügo has refined it. The portable restroom industry has been desperate for a company like gotügo to give it a brand new shine. For gotügo, it’s about turning the industry around in a positive way, investing in superior business practices and products so our customers receive optimal service at a great price!

Gotügo brings to the market a more appealing way to think about portable restrooms. You’ll have to agree that a restroom serving you and your needs is a pretty important service if not the most important kind of service at that time. A portable restroom unit although often frowned upon should not be anything other than truly appreciated!

Serving the Baltimore, Washington and Northern Virginia areas, you may have seen gotügo’s portable restrooms at private parties, sporting events, festivals or construction sites. Gotügo takes great pride in keeping all their units as “appealing” as possible, inside and out. Our well trained service staff cares for and maintains the units regularly keeping them clean, restored and well stocked tailored to your event. Whether it’s a large corporate affair to a down and dirty construction site, a beautiful wedding or private events, gotügo has a restroom suitable for your needs.

We look forward to the opportunity to earn your business and to provide our services to you…for at least the next thirty years to come.

Happy anniversary gotügo!

Gotügo is proud to be a gold sponsor at the 14th Annual MSP Polar Bear Plunge! The event helps raise funds for Special Olympics Maryland and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Maryland.

The Special Olympics Maryland is the state’s largest organization that helps to raise money for children and adults with intellectual disabilities year round through sports training and competition. For a mere $50 in pledges, Plunge participants are eligible to take a quick dip into the Chesapeake Bay and will automatically receive the official Polar Bear Plunge Sweatshirt, lunch courtesy of The Greene Turtle, a photo gift, and of course the bragging rights over all those who can’t stand a little chill.

The Plunge is then followed by a fun filled day of family festivities and music celebrations including the Carnival FunFest including sand sculpting, face painting and chainsaw carvings to the Carnival FunFest Stage of live music and dance entertainment. There’s also the Rams Head Ice Lodge as well as the Polar Bear Plunge Pageant!

Other gold sponsors in addition to gotügo are Under Armour, FedEx, Macy’s and Graul’s as well as Allen Homes, Frank Gumpert Printing, AmeriGas and others. This is one of many fundraising events gotügo will contribute to in the year 2010.

Gotügo, your portable restroom solutions company, has been serving the Baltimore, Washington and Northern Virginia business and social sector since 1980. Since the business’s inception thirty years ago, the organization has built a reputation that is unmatched among its competitors. Gotügo takes pride in providing superior customer service as well as a variety of state-of-the-art units with a fair and competitive pricing structure. From a Standard Unit to an Elite Unit or a High-Rise Crane Unit to a 24 foot Executive Trailer with optional on-site attendants, you can rest assured gotügo will satisfy all of your portable restroom needs.

No-frills portable restrooms may be suitable for construction sites and emergency situations, but when you are hosting an upscale corporate event, elite restroom units are more likely to be in tone and theme of the event and much more likely to impress your guests.

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An unexpected disaster such as broken or frozen water pipes, flooding or an earthquake may make normal restroom facilities at your home or office location unusable for a period of time. Since sanitary restroom facilities are a basic human need on a daily basis, it’s important to know how to quickly get an emergency portable restroom into operation.

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Gotügo is proud to announce and welcome two new members to its team - Brenda Marr, Director of Construction Operations, and Stacey Sherbert, Director of Special Event Sales.

Ms. Marr joined the gotügo team in late October and will serve as the facilitator of operations with our clientele in the construction industry. She had previous worked in related fields and plans to help update and improve upon the company policies and procedures.

Ms. Sherbert was hired in early November and will coordinate all of gotügo’s special event rentals for portable restrooms and luxury trailers for our clients. Recently, she moved to the area from Alaska where she excelled as a real estate agent at For Sale By Owner for several years. She also held a sales position for a window replacement company before joining gotügo. Ms. Sherbert is looking forward for the opportunity to drive sales into new markets and accomplish company objectives.

We are pleased to have Ms. Marr and Ms. Sherbert on board, and look forward to a successful future with them.

Gotügo, your portable restroom solutions company, has been serving the Baltimore/Washington business and social sector since 1980. Since the business’s inception nearly thirty years ago, the organization has built a reputation that is unmatched among its competitors. Gotügo takes pride in providing superior customer service as well as a variety of state-of-the-art units with a fair and competitive pricing structure. From a Standard Unit to an Elite Unit or a High-Rise Crane Unit to a 24 foot luxury trailer with optional on-site attendants, you can rest assured gotügo will satisfy all of your portable restroom needs.

The construction site is a place that has a lot of action and busy people at all times. The various contractors and laborers come and go. Different vendors along with supply services are making their way to and from the site often.

If the construction site is located in a remote site or it is in a residential area that really doesn’t have a lot of retail stores, this can be a real inconvenience, and also a serious expense for the contractor.

List of Benefits

• Less loss of time from a worker needing to make the trip to a publicly available restroom. Worker’s traveling to and from restroom’s available off-site are subject to wasting valuable time that their employer pays them due to the length of the trip and time spent going from construction site to a publicly available restroom.
• The benefits also overlap onto the representation of the construction company performing the services at the construction site. In this day and age professionalism and concern for the environmental impact is seen as a real sign of quality and expertise.
• Convenience is also a major deciding factor when renting portable toilets for your job site. Being able to use the toilet at you leisure does have some serious advantages.
• The presence of portable toilets on the job site shows that the servicing contractor providing service on the construction site is acting in a manner of professionalism. By providing toilet facilities for their crew. This in itself demonstrates the contractor as an employer who knows the value of their team.

The average construction laborer frequents the toilet and restroom 3 times in an 8 hour shift. The laborer spends approximately 3-4 minutes in the restroom if it is on-site. If the lavatory facility is off-site the average laborer spends 15-28 minutes traveling to the facility and then 4-9 minutes using the facility. This adds up to 19-37 minutes a trip or up to over 1 ½ hours. If you pay a laborer worker $12.00 per hour, that can amount to each worker getting up to $18.00 per shift to use the restroom.

The benefits that result from providing these services far outweigh the cost of not having them present on the construction site.

Gotügo, a proud sponsor of the 2009 Oktoberfest Celebration, will donate its time and services towards helping the Children’s National Medical Center raise proceeds that will benefit the new Pediatric Diabetes Care Complex located in Washington, D.C. This year’s Oktoberfest will take place on Friday, October 23, 2009 at The Old Angler’s Inn, Potomac, Maryland.

The new Pediatric Diabetes Care Complex, with an estimated cost of $5 million to construct, will provide patients and their families opportunities and space to receive full clinical treatments as well as information and resources for pediatric diabetes management. This new state-of-the-art treatment center will help the Children’s National Medial Center to continue to be a leading force in providing the best pediatric diabetes care to those who suffer this lifelong illness.

This year’s event took place at 6:30 pm at the beautiful Old Angler’s Inn and included live music, dancing, a live auction, and drinks. Local restaurants generously offered to cater the menu with their own guest chefs including Chef Paul Ouedrado of The Old Angler’s Inn, Chef Maziar Farivar of the Peacock Café, and Chef Enzo Fabbraro of D’Acqua Restaurant. Tickets were $100 per person and are tax deductable. This is one of many fundraising events gotügo has contributed to in the year 2009.

Thank you for your interest in gotügo. We look forward to the opportunity to earn your business. For more information on the Oktoberfest Celebration, please go to www.oldanglersinn.com.

Gotügo, a proud sponsor of the Baltimore Humane Society’s 2009 DogFest, will donate its time and services helping the Humane Society raise proceeds that will provide shelter, care and protection for many animals in the Baltimore community. This year’s DogFest will take place on Saturday, October 10, 2009 in Shawan Downs, Hunt Valley, Maryland.

The 5K-9 Fun Run sponsored by LifeBridge Health begins at 7:30am - 9:00am. Dogs and their owners will run together to help raise funds for the Humane Society. At the end of the race there are a variety of prizes awarded for being the first shelter dog to complete the race, top three runners with dogs, most pledge money collected and more.

The DogFest gates open at 10:00am, the start of all festivities! There is a long list of activities, contests and exhibits for the whole family to attend and participate in such as the Paws on Parade Pledge Walk, the agility run course, the Baltimore Dog “Best in Fest” photo contest, demonstrations from the Maryland Jousting Society, horseback riding, a cat rescue pavilion, “Kitty” carnival games, raffles and many more. Poe from the Baltimore Ravens will also be at DogFest from 11:00am - 3:00pm along with the Ravens cheerleaders who will help judge the various dog contests.

There are high expectations for this year’s DogFest to surpass last year’s attendance of more than 4,000! This is one of many fundraising events gotügo will contribute to in the year 2009.

Thank you for your interest in gotügo. We look forward to the opportunity to earn your business. For more information on the Baltimore Humane Society’s 2009 DogFest, please visit their website at http://www.dogfest2009.org.

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Gotügo was proud to have donated its time and services to the 2009 Bands in the Sands event hosted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, MD. With the help of gotügo and other dedicated members of the community the 2009 Bands in the Sands event was the most successful one ever, raising more than $130,000! The funds raised are put towards the restoration and protection of the bay. Gotügo is honored to contribute to such a critical fundraiser, supporting the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and their ongoing commitment to the Chesapeake Bay. This is one of many fundraising events gotügo has contributed to in the year 2009.

Gotügo, your portable restroom solutions company, has been serving the Baltimore/Washington business and social sector since 1980. Since the business’s inception nearly thirty years ago, the organization has built a reputation that is unmatched among its competitors. Gotügo takes pride in providing superior customer service as well as a variety of state-of-the-art units with a fair and competitive pricing structure. From a Standard Unit to an Elite Unit or a High-Rise Crane Unit to a 24 foot luxury trailer with optional on-site attendants, you can rest assured gotügo will satisfy all of your portable restroom needs.

Thank you for your interest in gotügo. We look forward to the opportunity to earn your business. For more information on the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, please go to www.cbf.org.

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On Monday, June 22nd, one of the deadliest train wrecks occurred in Washington, DC, killing nine people and leaving many others injured. It was one of the worst train wrecks in the railroad’s 33 year history.

Later that evening, gotügo received a call from the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMTA) requesting urgent assistance due to the horrific train wreck occurring earlier that day. Gotügo’s emergency services were on the scene immediately. According to WMTA, because of gotügo’s eagerness to help and capabilities to assist in such emergency situations, gotügo will remain to be the WMTA’s “go to” portable restroom company.

In the event of an emergency, a natural disaster, a large fire or anything that forces people from their homes or businesses, gotügo will quickly assess the situation and provide you with a portable restroom solution that will meet your needs. Our emergency services are second to none and a reliable resource to all those we serve. From the standard restroom unit to the 24′ trailer, from water tanks to waste tanks as well as portable sinks, gotügo is here for you.

Gotügo, your portable restroom solutions company, has been serving the Baltimore/Washington business and social sector since 1980. Since the business’s inception nearly thirty years ago, the organization has built a reputation that is unmatched among its competitors. Gotügo takes pride in providing superior customer service as well as a variety of state-of-the-art units with a fair and competitive pricing structure. From a Standard Unit to an Elite Unit or a High-Rise Crane Unit to a 24 foot luxury trailer with optional on-site attendants, you can rest assured gotügo will satisfy all of your portable restroom needs.

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