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Blooming Prairie, MN, August 2014 – Minimizer is celebrating 30 years with 30,000 ways to say thank you to its customers. Thirty years ago Lorraine Kruckeberg backed her vehicle over a Rubbermaid trash can, inspiring her husband Dick Kruckeberg to invent heavy-duty poly truck fenders. Thus, Spray Control Systems, Inc., which does business as Minimizer, was born. “We’ve grown exponentially during the past 30 years,” said Craig Kruckeberg, CEO and chief visionary at Minimizer. “We Read more…

Proper fleet maintenance is critical to safety, performance, driver retention, less in-transit pullovers, load protection and profitability. A rig that looks good will fare better with DOT inspections. Success with each of these critical fleet metrics starts with maintenance. But, industry use of the term maintenance is now transitioning to a more pervasive stance: fleet image. Fleet image is more encompassing. It includes the traditional maintenance objectives of optimizing uptime and asset value, controlling costs Read more…

In March we hosted a 30th anniversary party to remember. Thank you to our employees, vendors, distributors, and those that have helped us along the way that attended the rocking party at the Muse event center in downtown Minneapolis. This year, as we enjoy celebrating Minimizer’s 30th year as an American, family owned company, I can’t help but look back on the last 30 years. It wasn’t all that long ago—or so it seems anyway—that my mother Read more…