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The Jan. 27 front page contained an article with a common error. Those Ozinga Bros. vehicles you refer to in the first paragraph are not “cement” trucks, but “concrete” trucks–or, to use the proper industry term, “readymix” trucks. Cement is an ingredient in concrete; it is usually mixed with water, aggregate and other ingredients at a readymix plant, and those boldly striped red-and-white readymix trucks then take the concrete to sites to be poured.