Spencer Knott, Author at Trident Solutions

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Flags, Films, and Brisket: A Texas-Sized Finale

In the final stop of our Made Across America series, we head south to Sherman, Texas, home to Presco, where American manufacturing and Texas pride run deep. Since 1942, Presco has been crafting high-visibility flagging, barricade tapes, and marking flags used across construction, utility, and safety industries. What sets Sherman apart is its vertical integration, […]

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Can the TriView® post withstand 80,000 lbs?

Field & Product Education / Spencer Knott

This article originally appeared in a “Movie Monday” LinkedIn newsletter from October, 2025. I had been yearning to make a new impact demo video for our TriView marker post. We’ve done cars on a frozen lake, tractors and ATV impacts, and even 30 at a time! I wasn’t sure where to go next so we

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A major utility damage with poetic timing

Industry Insights / Spencer Knott

This week’s Movie Monday is the launch of something new. We’re kicking off a video series we’re calling “The Damage Report”. Think of it like a news broadcast, but one where we highlight real-world damages that impact the industries we serve. And the timing of our very first story? Somewhat eerie! I guess it is

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Made Across America: West Chicago, Illinois

Featured / Spencer Knott

Episode Three of our Made Across America series is here! For this episode, I made my way to West Chicago, Illinois, home of our Pro-Line Safety facility. While many of Trident’s products are engineered for visibility like flags and marker posts, the products we produce here are intended to stay hidden from public view, yet

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Data-backed Damage Prevention

Industry Insights / Spencer Knott

This blog is from our weekly #MovieMonday LinkedIn newsletter that you can subscribe to here. This is my 50th edition of the #MovieMonday blog! Man, how time flies… For my quinquagesimal (a word I just learned and am not 100% sure I am using correctly) issue, I couldn’t ask for a better topic to talk

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Connectors: The Offensive Line of Your Tracer Wire System

Field & Product Education / Spencer Knott

This article originally appeared in a “Movie Monday” LinkedIn newsletter from September, 2025. Protecting underground infrastructure is a lot like football The video featured this week features some of our friends at our West Chicago facility, where die-hard Bears fans work to produce and stock tracer wire, connectors, and buried warning tapes. Football and damage

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1000s of products with endless pun-tential

Safety & Awareness, Trident / Spencer Knott

This article originally appeared in a “Movie Monday” LinkedIn newsletter from August, 2025. I once entered ten puns into a contest, hoping at least one would win. But no pun in ten did … Some say that puns are the lowest form of comedy. Well if being punny is wrong, I don’t want to be

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RFID Tags & The Future of Labeling

Field & Product Education / Spencer Knott

This week’s #MovieMonday is a 2-4-1. We have two quick-hitting videos this week, as our in-house RFID aficionado, Bjorn Wangensteen, sits down to explain to us the benefits of RFID tags and how they will soon become the new normal in the future. (Be sure to watch video #2! We think you’ll find it interesting).

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Why ACM Signs are The Best Signs Money Can Buy

Field & Product Education / Spencer Knott

This video is a snippet from our “Made Across America” video series. Stop Overpaying for Signs That Don’t Last Let’s start by stating the obvious and say that signs are everywhere. They mark hazards, identify infrastructure, and communicate critical safety information. But here’s the problem: most signs out there are either overpriced, underperforming, or both.

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Author name: Spencer Knott

Flags, Films, and Brisket: A Texas-Sized Finale

Can the TriView® post withstand 80,000 lbs?

A major utility damage with poetic timing

Made Across America: West Chicago, Illinois

Data-backed Damage Prevention

Connectors: The Offensive Line of Your Tracer Wire System

1000s of products with endless pun-tential

RFID Tags & The Future of Labeling

Why ACM Signs are The Best Signs Money Can Buy

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