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Flanked on either side by model trucks in his office in Ogden , Utah – TAB Bank ’ s central and only location – Chief Operating Officer Mike Palmer strives everyday to uphold that original vision . “ When you ’ re dealing with people ’ s money and their financial lives , it ’ s emotional ,” Palmer says . “ It has a huge impact on everything that they do , how they live , and even how they see the world . And so doing that well , doing it right , is very important to me and the people that I work with .”
Doing it right for a relatively niche customer base such as truckers means understanding the realities of their lives and their financial situations . To highlight the point , Palmer points to the ‘ guaranteed check ’, a form of one-off payment run by third parties that is generally used to pay truckers performing a single job for a different company . TAB works with these third parties to ensure their customers can deposit these cheques directly into their TAB account – a seemingly small service that in fact
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