Spencer Knott, Author at Trident Solutions

Holiday Circuit Safety (a guide for non-electricians)

It takes a lot to power the holidays! The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that residential electricity use jumps roughly 23% in December compared to June. Holiday lights alone consume an estimated 6.6 billion kWh of electricity nationwide, which is enough to power 800,000 homes for a full year! Higher power demand also means increased […]

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Protecting What Powers the Holidays

Safety & Awareness / Spencer Knott

The holiday season is here! A time when homes light up with twinkling strands of LEDs (any Clark Griswold’s out there?), ovens work overtime to bake treats (peanut butter blossoms are my favorite), and streaming services buzz with classic holiday movies (yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie!). ‘Tis the season of joy, but also

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

Featured / Spencer Knott

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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Author name: Spencer Knott

Holiday Circuit Safety (a guide for non-electricians)

Protecting What Powers the Holidays

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

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