WABASH NATIONAL Corp

Overview

Wabash National Corporation, which we refer to herein as “Wabash,” the “Company,” “us,” “we,” or “our,” is Changing How the World Reaches You®. Wabash was founded in 1985 and incorporated as a corporation in Delaware in 1991, with its principal executive offices in Lafayette, Indiana, as a dry van trailer manufacturer. Today we are the visionary leader of connected solutions for the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries.

To that end, we design and manufacture a diverse range of products, including dry freight and refrigerated trailers, platform trailers, tank trailers, dry and refrigerated truck bodies, structural composite panels and products, transportation, logistics, and distribution industry parts and services, and specialty food grade processing equipment. We have achieved this diversification through acquisitions, organic growth, and product innovation.

We believe our position as a leader in our key industries is the result of longstanding relationships with our core customers, our demonstrated ability to attract new customers, our broad and innovative product lines, our engineering leadership, and our extensive distribution and service network. More importantly, we believe our leadership position is indicative of the Values and Leadership Principles that guide our actions.

At Wabash, its our focus on people, purpose, and performance that drives us to do better. Our Purpose is to change how the world reaches you; our Vision is to be the visionary leader of connected solutions for the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries; and our Mission is to enable our customers to succeed with breakthrough ideas and solutions that help them move everything from first to final mile.

Our Values are the qualities that govern our critical leadership behaviors and accelerate our progress.

▪Be Curious: We will make bold choices and encourage creativity, collaboration and risk-taking to turn breakthrough ideas into reality.

▪Have a Growth Mindset: We will be resilient and capable of the change required to succeed in a world that does not stand still.

▪Create Remarkable Teams: We will create a workplace culture that allows individuals to be their best in order to retain and attract talent from diverse industries, geographies and backgrounds.

Our Leadership Principles are the behaviors that provide definition to our actions and bring our values to life.

▪Embrace Diversity and Inclusion: We solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate our differences and strive for transparency and inclusiveness.

▪Seek to Listen: We listen to our customers, partners, and each other to reach the best solutions and make the strongest decisions.

▪Always Learn: To model a growth mindset, we continue learning through every stage of our careers. We do not quit and we are not satisfied with the status quo.

▪Be Authentic: Employees who thrive at Wabash are honest, have incredible energy and demonstrate grit in everything they do.

▪Win Together: We collaborate, seek alignment and excel at cross-group communication to succeed as one team and One Wabash.

Rebranding

In January 2022, Wabash National Corporation and its portfolio of brands rebranded as Wabash® and began a significant shift in the Company’s go-to-market brand strategy. This marks a milestone in the Company’s transformation, following two years of accomplishments in our reorganization, new customer acquisition, and strategic growth as One Wabash. The rebrand is a reflection of our efforts and how we go-to-market with a powerful brand strategy designed to carry all of our legacy brands into the future.

Wabash aims to be a visionary leader that drives the changing business of transport in ways that move the entire industry forward. We see a different future reality than our competition in the context of social, technological, and logistics changes, and we’ve chosen to go down a substantially different path to re-shape the industry and pull that future forward for our customers. We saw how logistics changes would disrupt the industry and result in customers buying from one source, in one way, from first to final mile. We saw the need to radically change how products are conceived and designed upfront in engineering with new technologies to make leap-frog improvements in quality and consistency. We had the foresight to develop and commercialize a new composite technology that can deliver breakthrough value to customers. Going forward, we see the need to expand connectivity from the source all the way to the home to ensure food safety versus myopically focusing on point solutions.

As of January 2022, we market nearly all products in our Transportation Solutions and Parts & Services segments as Wabash®. The Company will continue to market DuraPlate®, DuraPlateHD®, DuraPlate AeroSkirt®, and AeroSkirt CX®, as well as the new EcoNex™ Technology brand for our proprietary molded structural composite.

Wabash Management System

Our Wabash Management System (“WMS”) is a set of principles and standardized business processes for the purpose of achieving our strategic objectives. These principles are centered around lean thinking and state that lean application must extend across and throughout our entire enterprise, not only our manufacturing processes. By codifying what makes our company great, the WMS drives focus on the interconnected processes that are critical for success across our business. WMS is based on forward planning and continuous capability evaluation as we simultaneously drive execution and breakthrough performance. WMS requires everyone to be an active contributor to our enterprise-wide lean efforts and enables growth through innovation and industry leading customer satisfaction and alliances. Our WMS principles underpin an ongoing improvement cycle that includes Strategic Planning and Deployment, Kaizen, and Daily Management. It is through this set of standards and thinking that we create a “One Wabash” approach to our employees and customers, add new business capabilities, and enable profitable growth.

In partnership with Purdue University, during 2022 we developed a curriculum for WMS Facilitator and Coaching. We have hosted WMS University Champion training sessions and have over 225 graduates of the program while continuing to enhance internally. Company-wide, we have frequent WMS communication and engagement enhancement sessions, including lunch & learn trainings. Finally, we have developed a strategic deployment process and planning cycle.

Our One Wabash organizational structure enables long-term growth for the Company with an intense focus on value streams, streamlined processes, product innovation, and a consistent, superior experience for all customers who seek our solutions in the transportation, logistics and distribution markets. The value streams leverage the power of our processes to close the cycle of customer needs and customer fulfillment.

Operating Segments

The One Wabash organizational transformation began during the first quarter of 2020 to better align resources and processes on serving the customer and to enable long-term growth. In connection with the substantial completion of our One Wabash strategic initiatives, including organizational and structural changes as well as portfolio rationalization, beginning in September 2021 we realigned our operating and reportable segments based on how the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) manages the business, allocates resources, makes operating decisions, and evaluates operating performance. Based on this realignment, we established two operating and reportable segments: Transportation Solutions (“TS”) and Parts & Services (“P&S”), and eliminated the historical Commercial Trailer Products (“CTP”), Diversified Products (“DPG”), and Final Mile Products (“FMP”) segments. Additional information related to the composition of each segment, is set forth below.

Transportation Solutions

The TS segment comprises the design and manufacturing operations for the Company’s transportation-related equipment and products. This includes dry and refrigerated van trailers, platform trailers, and our wood flooring production facility, all of which were previously reported in the CTP segment. The Company’s EcoNex™ Technology products that were historically included in both the CTP and FMP segments are reported in the TS segment. In addition, the TS segment includes tank trailers and truck-mounted tanks that were historically reported in the DPG segment. Finally, truck-mounted dry and refrigerated bodies and service and stake bodies that were previously reported in the FMP segment are also in the TS segment. Refer to the “Products” section below for additional information and details related to the TS segment’s product offerings.

Parts & Services

The P&S segment is comprised of each of our historical segments’ parts & services businesses as well as the upfitting component of our truck bodies business. In addition, our Composites products, which are focused on the use of DuraPlate® composite panels beyond the semi-trailer market, are also part of the P&S segment. This segment also includes Wabash Parts LLC and Linq Venture Holdings LLC entities created in the second quarter of 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2023, respectively, as further described in Note 6 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Additionally, the P&S segment includes our Trailers as a Service (TAAS)SMinitiative, which combines our market-leading trailer products with emerging capabilities like parts distribution and a growing maintenance and repair network in order to provide a valuable suite of services to our customers. Finally, the P&S segment includes the Company’s Engineered Products business, including stainless-steel storage tanks and silos, mixers, and processors for a variety of end markets. As disclosed throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, growing and expanding our parts and services offerings is a key strategic initiative for us moving forward. Refer to the “Products” section below for additional information and details related to the P&S segment’s product offerings.

Strategy

We are the visionary leader of connected solutions with strong customer relationships across the first, middle, and final mile markets that will support profitable growth and provide adaptability to changes in the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries. We believe our One Wabash organizational structure and WMS are uniquely designed to achieve breakthrough customer value. Our TS and P&S segment structure aligns our resources and processes on serving the customer, and our strategy is centered around our ability to scale core competencies by growing in and around core markets with known customers.

Our first to final mile portfolio of products creates simplicity for customers managing through significant industry change. We believe that if we are successful in focusing on each of these strategic initiatives, we will be well-positioned to advance our commitment to deliver long-term profitable growth within each of our reportable segments, support margin enhancement through our One Wabash organization and WMS mindset, and successfully deliver value to our shareholders. In addition, leveraging our dealer and strategic account relationships will create the scale of a national service network.

During 2023, we partnered with Loadsmith and continued our partnership with FreightVana to support our Trailers as a Service (“TAAS”)SM initiative. Our TAAS initiative combines our market-leading trailer products with emerging capabilities like parts distribution and a growing maintenance and repair network in order to provide a valuable suite of services to our customers and contribute to our growing base of recurring revenue in our Parts & Services operating segment. The amendment to our Revolving Credit Agreement during the third quarter of 2022, supports our TAAS offering with increased liquidity availability.

By continuing to be the visionary leader in the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries we expect to leverage our existing assets and capabilities into higher margin products and markets by delivering value-added customer solutions. Optimizing our product portfolio, operations, and processes to enhance manufacturing efficiency and agility is expected to well-position the Company to drive margin expansion and reinforce our customer relationships.

Acquisition Strategy

We believe that our overall business and segments have significant opportunities to grow through disciplined strategic acquisitions. When evaluating acquisition targets, we generally look for opportunities that exhibit the following attributes:

▪Customer-focused solutions;

▪Access to new technology and innovation;

▪Strong management team that is a cultural fit;

▪Aligned with our core competencies in purchasing, operations, distribution, and product development; and

▪Growth markets, whether end-markets or geographical, within the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries.

Capital Allocation Strategy

We believe that a balanced and disciplined capital allocation strategy is necessary to support our growth initiatives and create shareholder value. The objectives and goals of the Company’s capital allocation strategy are summarized below:

Industry and Competition

Trucking in the U.S., according to the American Trucking Association (“ATA”), was estimated to be a $940.8 billion industry in 2022, representing approximately 81% of the total U.S. transportation industry revenue. From a financial (e.g., value) industry perspective, this represents an increase of approximately 7.5% from ATA’s 2021 estimate and is consistent with the prior year as a percentage of the total U.S. transportation industry revenue (81% in both 2022 and 2021). Furthermore, ATA estimates that approximately 72.6% of all domestic freight tonnage in 2022 was carried by trucks, and 327.5 billion miles were traveled by registered trucks in 2021. Trailer demand is a direct function of the amount of freight to be transported.

Transportation in the U.S., including trucking, is a cyclical industry that has experienced three cycles over the last 20 years. In each of the last three cycles the decline in freight tonnage preceded the general U.S. economic downturn and the recovery has generally preceded that of the economy as a whole. The trailer industry generally follows the transportation industry, experiencing cycles in the early and late 90’s lasting approximately 58 and 67 months, respectively. Truck freight tonnage, according to ATA statistics, started declining year-over-year in 2006 and remained at depressed levels through 2009, when the most recent cycle concluded. After three consecutive years with total trailer demand well below normal replacement demand levels estimated to be approximately 220,000 trailers, the period ending December 31, 2019 demonstrated six consecutive years of healthy demand in which there were total trailer shipments of approximately 269,000, 308,000, 286,000, 288,000, 323,000, and 328,000 for the years ending 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively. Since 2020’s decrease in trailer production (during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic) to approximately 206,000 trailer shipments that year, according to ATA, trailer production has rebounded in 2022 and 2023 to levels seen in the previous decade.

According to ACT Research Company (“ACT”) and FTR Associates (“FTR”), total U.S. trailer production in 2022 was approximately 308,000 trailers. ACT and FTR estimate 2023 production to be approximately 311,000 and 322,000 trailers, respectively. This represents an increase of approximately 1% and 4.4%, respectively from 2022. The current estimates from ACT and FTR for 2024 for United States trailer production is 254,000 and 240,000, respectively which is 18.2% and 25.5% below 2023 production estimates. This is indicative of a freight market downcycle that has taken shape since the middle of 2022, when the industry saw freight volumes and average truckload spot rates fall relatively quickly. Although these challenging conditions are expected to continue into 2024 and may impact future trailer production, it appears the industry is at a cycle bottom and waiting for freight volumes to recover. Additional discussion and analysis is included under the section titled "Industry Trends" included within Part II, Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Trailer manufacturers compete primarily through the quality of their products, customer relationships, innovative technology, and price. We have observed others in the industry also pursue the development and use of composite sidewalls that compete directly with our DuraPlate® products. Our product development is focused on maintaining a leading position with respect to these products and on development of new products and markets, leveraging products across our segments such as EcoNex TMTechnology, as well as our expertise in the engineering and design of customized products.

The tank trailers component of our Transportation Solutions segment and the engineered products component of our Parts & Services segment, in most cases, participate in markets different from our historical core van and platform trailer product offerings. The customers and end markets that these components serve are broader and more diverse than the van and platform trailer industries, including the dairy, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical, craft brewing, biotech, and specialty vehicle markets. In addition, our diversification efforts pertain to new and emerging markets and many of the products are driven by regulatory requirements or, in most cases, customer-specific needs.

The truck body component of our Transportation Solutions segment competes in the specialized vehicle industry, whereby there are only a few national competitors and many smaller, regional companies. Competitive factors include quality of product, lead times, geographic proximity to customers, and the ability to manufacture a product customized to customer specifications. With our national presence, diverse product offerings, and One Wabash approach to customer relationships, we believe that we are well positioned to meet the competitive challenges presented. In addition, a growing part of the truck body product line is directly aligned with our trailer customers.

Human Capital Resources and Management

As of December 31, 2023, we had approximately 6,700 full-time employees. Throughout 2023, essentially all of our active employees were non-union. Our temporary employees represented less than 1% of our overall production workforce as of December 31, 2023.

We believe our commitment to our human capital resources is key to our mission to enable our customers to succeed with breakthrough ideas and solutions that help them move everything from first to final mile. In addition, our human capital resources are at the core of our Values and Leadership Principles. The Company’s executives (the “Senior Leadership Team”), including the President and Chief Executive Officer, are responsible for developing and executing the Company’s human capital strategy. This includes the attraction, acquisition, development, and engagement of talent to deliver on the Company’s strategy and the design of employee compensation and benefits programs. The Senior Leadership Team is also responsible for developing and integrating the Company’s diversity and inclusion roadmap. In addition, regular updates are provided to the Company’s Board of Directors and its committees on the operation and status of human capital trends and activities. Key areas of focus for the Company include:

•Employee Engagement– We define engagement as a deep connection and sense of purpose at work that creates extra energy and commitment. Our goal is to engineer a winning culture that is designed to execute the Company’s strategic plan. Over the long-term, we seek better outcomes from having a highly engaged and values-aligned workforce, including higher retention, higher productivity, better customer satisfaction, better quality, and better safety. We provide all employees with the opportunity to share their opinions and feedback on our culture through a voluntary annual employee engagement assessment where all employees are encouraged to participate. Results are measured and analyzed to enhance the employee experience, promote employee retention, drive positive change, and leverage the overall success of our organization.

▪Talent Development – One of our Company values is Always Learn. We put that into practice by offering our own welding and skills training courses, self-directed learning modules and an executive leadership development program at no cost to employees. Additionally, we host a wide variety of learning and development opportunities through our custom-tailored Learning Management System — Wabash U. Our employees have access through an online portal to thousands of self-directed and instructor-led courses on a variety of professional development topics. Our employees also have access to WMS University (“WMS U”), which was developed and accredited by Purdue University’s Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises and TP3 Institute for smart manufacturing. WMS U teaches participants about our WMS systems and tools in our lean enterprise, the goal of which is to equip our employees with the knowledge to live WMS principles every day. There are over 225 graduates to date from our WMS U programs. Finally, in partnership with Purdue University, we developed curriculum for WMS Facilitator and Coaching training, which was launched during the first quarter of 2022.

Targeted learning and development opportunities are also created through external partnerships, including special development programs for front line leaders (with over 400 trained since the program began in 2022), as well as focused executive development across a variety of topics. Full-time Wabash employees can pursue various courses, undergraduate and graduate degree programs, or relevant certifications at an accredited college or university without added financial burden by using our Accelerator tuition reimbursement program. We provide all employees a wide range of professional development experiences, both formal and informal, at all stages in their careers. In addition, Wabash employees and dependents of employees are eligible for a variety of scholarships offered by Wabash and the industry associations to which we belong. We support the youth in our communities through program funding, training programs, internships, co-ops, and our emerging leadership development programs. We also sponsor youth clubs in our communities, including robotics clubs, STEM programs, and the Purdue University’s Women in Engineering Program. In 2023, we awarded 12 high school graduates with Wabash scholarships totaling $60,000.

▪Focus on Safety – At Wabash, safety is our first priority. We prioritize the safety of our employees, our customers, and our communities. We demonstrate this core value by working on innovations to protect the people who operate our equipment. In addition, we partner with other manufacturers in the industry to further promote safety by sharing best practices and ideas for implementing higher standards.

We continually focus on reducing the severity and frequency of workplace injuries to create a safe environment for our employees. We provide ongoing safety training and development at our production facilities, which are designed to focus on empowering our employees with the knowledge and tools they need to make safe choices and to mitigate risks. Our employees are encouraged to identify safety opportunities and report near-misses through our safety good catch program. The Company utilizes a mixture of leading and lagging indicators to assess the health and safety performance of its operations. For example, a lagging indicator includes the OSHA Total Recordable Incident Rate (“TRIR”). TRIR in 2023 was 4.32, which is one of the Company’s best-ever years for TRIR performance. A leading metric we use is scoring from our Blueprint for Excellence, which assesses a facility’s overall safety program and identifies key areas of improvement. Wabash utilizes a software platform to proactively mitigate safety risks by driving business decisions based on actionable insights and advanced analytics. We continue to encourage reporting of near-miss incidents and track near-misses enterprise-wide.

Our safety awards include:

◦2022 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Awards (Fond du Lac, WI, and New Lisbon, WI)

◦2021 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Awards (Little Falls, MN, and San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico)

◦2020 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Awards (Fond du Lac, WI, and San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico)

◦2019 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Award (New Lisbon, WI)

◦2018 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Award (San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico)

◦2017 Kentucky Governor’s Safety and Health Award (Cadiz, KY)

◦2016 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Awards (New Lisbon, WI, and San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico)

◦2015 Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association Plant Safety Awards (New Lisbon, WI)

▪Health and Wellness – The health and wellness of our employees is critical to our success. We provide our employees with access to a variety of innovative, flexible, and convenient health and wellness programs. Such programs are designed to support employees' physical and mental health by providing tools and resources to help them improve or maintain their health status and encourage engagement in healthy behaviors.

▪Diversity and Inclusion– Wabash is committed to having a workforce that is diverse and embraces inclusion at all levels, reflecting the diversity of our customers and the varied environments in which we conduct business around the globe. Recognizing, valuing, and fully leveraging our different perspectives and backgrounds to achieve our business goals demonstrate our inclusive culture and are part of our Leadership Principles (“Embrace Diversity and Inclusion”). We need inclusion and diversity to achieve our targeted business results and fulfill our vision of being the visionary leader of connected solutions for the transportation, logistics and distribution industries. Openness to diversity widens our access to the best talent, and inclusion allows us to engage that talent fully. In addition, we place special focus on preventing pay imbalances among genders, including proactive adjustments to pay, titles, and/or benefits to prevent gender pay gaps.

In 2023, 66% of our total hourly hires were women and/or minorities, and 47% of total salaried hires in 2023 were women and/or minorities.

▪Compensation and Benefits– Wabash is committed to providing a comprehensive total compensation and benefits program that is competitive within the local market as well as the industries we serve. Our compensation and benefits program not only ensures external market competitiveness and internal equity, but it also maintains a strong emphasis on performance. The tenets of our compensation philosophy are:

◦Compensation is calibrated to market to facilitate access to and retain needed talent.

◦Compensation design is transparent to help employees clearly understand all components of their compensation.

◦Compensation is connected to individual performance and, in some cases, performance of the organization.

◦Compensation enables purpose by being connected to the Company’s values and leadership principles.

In addition to salaries, these programs can include annual bonuses, stock-based compensation awards, a 401(k) plan and non-qualified deferred compensation plan with employee matching opportunities, healthcare and insurance benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, paid time off, family leave, family care resources, flexible work schedules, safety shoe and prescription safety glass programs, an employee assistance program, and tuition assistance, among many others.

▪Community Involvement– Wabash’s charitable giving program combines volunteer work with financial support to make a meaningful, lasting impact on our communities. We actively partner with nonprofit groups and projects to donate time, needed materials and financial resources to support the communities where we live and work. We place special emphasis on combating food insecurity in our communities, as well as supporting children and veterans. We believe that enriching the lives of those around us is a powerful investment in our future. Involvement in our communities is unique to our various locations. During 2022, we announced a national partnership to help end food insecurity with Feeding America®, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Through this partnership, Wabash has donated $150,000 annually in support of mobile food pantries and freight subsidies, which are crucial to increasing the distribution of fresh and healthy food in vulnerable communities. This national partnership is an expansion of the work Wabash has done over the past 20 years on a local level with various Feeding America member food banks.

In 2023, Wabash donated more than $755,000 through corporate gifts, local charitable sponsorships and employee donations to nonprofit organizations. Our charitable contributions included gifts to Feeding America, Fisher House, United Way, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Junior Achievement, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Gary Sinise Foundation, Boys and Girls Club, Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, Mental Health America, Wreaths Across America, Special Olympics, YWCA, Boys Scouts of America, and more. In addition to these organizations, we also supported local schools across the country with robotics clubs, weld programs, career development, food bank backpack programs, youth sports, music enrichment programs, and more.

We also run a Day of Giving program, which allows all full-time employees the opportunity to volunteer one scheduled workday each calendar year. In 2023, around 10% of the Company's workforce dedicated over 5,000 hours of volunteer work, actively supporting local food banks, homeless shelters, veteran services agencies, environmental conservation programs, local schools’ leadership and career readiness activities, Junior Achievement, Salvation Army, YWCA, local animal shelters, Wreaths Across America, youth athletics, art programs, foster child agencies, programs to support people with disabilities, and more.

Our annual Corporate Responsibility Report is available on our website (ir.onewabash.com) and references the ongoing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives that demonstrate our commitment to sustainability and social responsibility. The content on any website referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K unless expressly noted.

Competitive Strengths

We believe our core competitive strengths include, but are not limited to:

▪Long-Term Core Customer Relationships – We are the leading provider of trailers to a significant number of top tier trucking companies, generating a revenue base that has helped to sustain us as one of the market leaders. Our van products are preferred by many of the industry’s leading carriers. We are also a leading provider of liquid-transportation systems and engineered products and we have a strong customer base, consisting of mostly private fleets, and have earned a leading market position across many of the markets we serve. In addition, we are a leading manufacturer of truck bodies, and we have a strong customer base of large national fleet leasing companies and large retailers. Our competitive strength related to long-term core customer relationships is evidenced by our multi-year order agreement with J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., which we announced in January 2023.

▪Technology and Innovation – We continue to be recognized by the trucking industry as a leader in developing technology to provide value-added solutions for our customers that reduce trailer operating costs, improve revenue opportunities, and solve unique transportation problems. Throughout our history, we have been and we expect to continue to be a leading innovator in the design and production of trailers and related products. We have commercialized and launched DuraPlate® Cell Core, a modified DuraPlate® panel that reduces the weight of a conventional 53 foot DuraPlate® trailer by 300 pounds without compromising strength or durability. Our refrigerated van offerings now include EcoNex TM Technology, which is under our recently introduced Acutherm TM portfolio of solutions designed for intelligent thermal management. In connection with our Cold Chain strategic initiative, a refrigerated trailer with EcoNex TM Technology provides up to 28% improvement in thermal performance over Wabash’s conventional ArcticLite® refrigerated trailer, and is being engineered to be lighter with greater strength and durability. This translates into lower lifetime operational costs and more conscious use of resources. In August 2022, we announced a $20 million investment to be made in our manufacturing capacity to scale our EcoNex TM technology within refrigerated vans, truck bodies, and other transportation and logistics related products. Additionally, The Kroger Company continues to a be a large Wabash customer since placing an initial order for more than $10 million in 2021 of refrigerated home delivery vehicles with EcoNex TM Technology.

During 2021, we received the 2021 Indiana Manufacturers Association’s Manufacturing Excellence Award for Innovation for our EcoNex TM Technology. We are leveraging this innovative technology in other facets of our business, such as the final mile and home delivery space.

Since December 2021 we have partnered with Purdue University to accelerate the Company’s speed to market with proprietary, innovative products. The partnership connects Wabash to Purdue’s Office of Industry Partnerships, allowing us to leverage Purdue University’s resources to deliver new and improved sustainability-focused solutions to the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries.

▪Significant Brand Recognition – In January 2022, Wabash National Corporation and its portfolio of brands rebranded as Wabash® and began a significant shift in the Company’s go-to-market brand strategy. This rebranding provides the foundation to build upon our history of being one of the most widely recognized brands in the industry, recognized for quality, performance, and innovation leadership. It also positions us to increase the ease of doing business for customers and solve critical customer needs with innovative solutions across products from the first to final mile. In addition, we were named to the Forbes list of America’s Most Successful Small-Cap Companies 2024.

▪WMS and Enterprise Lean – By codifying what makes our company great, the Wabash Management System (“WMS”) drives focus on the interconnected processes that are critical for success across our business. WMS is based on forward planning and continuous capability evaluation as we simultaneously drive execution and breakthrough performance. WMS requires everyone to be an active contributor to our enterprise-wide lean efforts and enables growth through innovation and industry leading customer satisfaction and alliances. Our WMS principles underpin an ongoing improvement cycle that includes Strategic Planning and Deployment, Kaizen, and Daily Management. It is through this set of standards and thinking that we create a “One Wabash” approach to our customers, add new business capabilities, and enable profitable growth.

Safety, quality, delivery, cost, morale, and environment are the core elements of our program of continuous improvement. We currently maintain an ISO 14001 registration of the Environmental Management System at four facilities, which include our Lafayette, Indiana; Cadiz, Kentucky; San José Iturbide, Mexico; and Harrison, Arkansas locations. In addition, we have achieved ISO 9001 registration of the Quality Management Systems at our Lafayette, Indiana and Cadiz, Kentucky facilities.

▪Corporate Culture – As further described above in the “Human Capital Resources and Management” section, we believe strong human capital acts as a competitive differentiator and our focus is not only on ensuring we have the right leaders in place to drive our strategic initiatives today, but also to nurture our talent pipeline to develop strong leaders for our company’s future. To that end, we benefit from an experienced, value-driven management team and dedicated workforce.

We strive to achieve alignment at every layer and throughout all functional areas of our business and are focused on ensuring the right systems are in place to facilitate all team members working toward the same shared goals. Critical to this is the One Wabash mindset that our business is constructed of three interlinked segments that benefit from one another and are stronger as a result of being part of Wabash.

▪Extensive Distribution Network – We utilize a network of 23 independent dealers with approximately 70 locations throughout North America to distribute our van trailers. Our platform trailer distribution network consists of 58 independent dealers with approximately 105 locations throughout North America. Our tank trailers are distributed through a network of 3 independent dealers with 5 locations throughout North America, along with additional arrangements to provide supplemental coverage as needed. Additionally, our truck body commercial network consists of more than 900 partners. Our commercial network primarily serves mid-market and smaller sized carriers and private fleets in the geographic region where the partner is located and occasionally may sell to large fleets.

Regulation

Truck trailer length, height, width, maximum weight capacity and other specifications are regulated by individual states. The federal government also regulates certain safety and environmental sustainability features incorporated in the design and use of truck and tank trailers, as well as truck bodies. These regulations include: requirements to install Electronic Logging Devices, the use of aerodynamic devices and fuel saving technologies, as well as operator restrictions as to hours of service and minimum driver safety standards (see “Industry Trends” included within Part II, Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more details on these regulations). In addition, most tank trailers we manufacture have specific federal regulations and restrictions that dictate tank design, material type and thickness. Manufacturing operations are subject to environmental laws enforced by federal, state and local agencies (see “Environmental Matters”).

Products

Since our inception, we have worked to expand our product offerings from a single truck trailer dry van product to a broad range of connected solutions for the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries to help our customers move everything from first to final mile. We manage a diverse product portfolio, maintain long-standing customer relationships, and focus on innovative and breakthrough technologies within two operating segments.

Our current Transportation Solutions segment primarily includes the following products:

•Van, Platform, and Tank Trailers

◦Dry Van Trailers. The dry van market represents our largest product line and includes trailers sold under the DuraPlate® and DuraPlate HD®trademarks. Our DuraPlate® trailers utilize a proprietary technology that consists of a composite sandwich panel wall for increased durability and greater strength. In addition, we have introduced DuraPlate® Cell Core, a modified DuraPlate® panel that reduces the weight of a conventional 53-foot DuraPlate® trailer by 300 pounds.

◦Platform Trailers. Platform trailers were sold under the Transcraft® and Benson® trademarks until the January 2022 rebranding as Wabash®. Platform trailers consist of a trailer chassis with a flat or “drop” loading deck without permanent sides or a roof. These trailers are primarily utilized to haul steel coils, construction materials, and large equipment. In addition to our all steel and combination steel and aluminum platform trailers, we also offer a premium all-aluminum platform trailer.

◦Acutherm TM Refrigerated Trailers. Our refrigerated trailers provide thermal efficiency, maximum payload capacity, and superior damage resistance. Our refrigerated trailers were sold under the ArcticLite® trademark until the January 2022 rebranding as Wabash® and use our SolarGuard® technology, coupled with our foaming process, which we believe enables customers to achieve lower costs through reduced operating hours of refrigeration equipment and therefore reduced fuel consumption. As previously discussed, our Acutherm TM refrigerated trailer with EcoNex TM Technology provides up to 28% improvement in thermal performance over Wabash’s conventional ArcticLite® refrigerated trailer construction, prevents water intrusion, slows foam degradation, and ultimately, extends equipment life. The all-composite floor system of the Acutherm TM refrigerated trailer with EcoNex TM Technology is being engineered to increase cube capacity and eliminate corrosion issues of conventional refrigerated trailers.

◦Tank Trailers. Our tank trailer offerings include several products dedicated to transportation solutions. These brands included Walker TM Transport, Brenner® Tank, and Bulk Tank International until the January 2022 rebranding as Wabash®. Our product offerings in this component of the TS segment include stainless steel and aluminum tank trailers for the dairy, food and beverage, oil, and gas markets, as well as stainless steel and fiberglass reinforced poly tank trailers for chemical end markets.

▪Truck Bodies and Related Products

◦Wabash® Dry Freight Truck Bodies. These truck bodies range from 12 to 30 feet in length with exterior walls assembled from one of several material options, including our premium DuraPlate® panels and pre-painted aluminum sheet and post. Additional features include industry-leading durable one-piece front header design, LED marker lights, sealed wiring harnesses, hardwood flooring, and various door configurations to accommodate end-user loading and unloading requirements. This product is adaptable for a diverse range of uses in dry-freight transportation.

◦Cargo and Cargo XL Bodies. An ideal route truck for a variety of commercial applications, these van bodies are manufactured on cutaway chassis which allow access from the cab to the cargo area. This newly designed product line utilizes our DuraPlate® panel wall construction as the foundation for a superior light duty delivery vehicle for the growing final mile segment of the truck body market we serve.

◦Insulated Acutherm TM Refrigerated Truck Bodies. These insulated van bodies, in lengths from 12 to 28 feet, provide versatility and dependability for temperature-controlled applications. Flexible for either hand-load or pallet-load requirements, they are ideal for multi-stop distribution of both fresh and frozen products. Soon to be offered in late 2024, Acutherm TM Refrigerated Truck Bodies with EcoNex TM Technology will join the ranks of our refrigerated products introducing a lighter and more thermally efficient insulated wall, floor, and roof construction to meet the growing demand for a more sustainable thermal delivery solution for our customers.

◦Light-Duty Acutherm TMRefrigerated Bodies with EcoNex TM Technology. Our new light-duty, home delivery refrigerated truck body with EcoNex TM Technology is being designed to maximize both cargo capacity and delivery productivity on chassis with gross vehicle weight ratings below 10,000 pounds. The purpose-built insulated body design facilitates a rack and tote system unique to the food distribution industry while creating easy access to separate temperature zones for perishable goods.

◦Platform Truck Bodies. Our platform truck bodies offer various configurations with steel front bulkheads and removable stake racks on the sides and rear. The platform truck body is utilized for a broad range of manufacturing and construction industries’ transportation needs.

▪Other Transportation Solutions Components

◦Used Trailers. These products include the sale of used trailers through our used fleet sales center to facilitate additional new trailer sales with a focus on selling both large and small fleet trade packages to the wholesale market.

◦Wood Products. We manufacture laminated hardwood oak flooring used primarily in our dry van trailer products at our manufacturing operations located in Harrison, Arkansas.

Our current Parts & Services segment primarily includes the following products:

▪Upfit, Parts, and Services Offerings

◦Aftermarket Parts and Services. Aftermarket component products are manufactured to provide continued support to our customers throughout the life-cycle of the trailer. Utilizing our on-site service centers, we provide a wide array of quality aftermarket parts and services to our customers. In addition, we provide parts and maintenance and repair services for tank trailers and other related equipment through our five tank service centers.

◦Truck Body Upfitting, Parts, and Services. Through our truck body upfitting locations, we offer solutions to help customize and ensure our products meet the needs of our customers. Offerings include steel flatbed bodies, truck body mounting, shelving for package delivery, partitions, roof racks, hitches, thermal solutions, liftgates, and more. We also offer direct-line access to truck body repair parts (generally for all manufacturers) and provide other services such as door repair and replacement, collision repair (generally for all manufacturers), and basic maintenance. We currently have six locations throughout the United States for truck body parts and services, five of which also offer upfitting services.

•Linq Venture Holdings, LLC

◦Linq Venture Holdings LLC. As further described in Note 6 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, during the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company continued to unify and expand its parts and services capabilities and ecosystem by executing an agreement with a partner to create a new legal entity (Linq Venture Holdings LLC, “Linq”) to develop and scale a digital marketplace in and for the transportation and logistics distribution industry. Linq is intended to be the digital channel to market Wabash equipment and parts & services, as well as non-Wabash parts & services, in a digital marketplace format to end-customers as well as dealers.

▪Wabash Parts LLC

◦Wabash Parts LLC. As further described in Note 6 in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, during the second quarter of 2022, we unified and expanded our parts and distribution capabilities by executing an agreement with a partner to create a new legal entity (Wabash Parts LLC) to operate a parts and services distribution platform. The single channel distribution network will, over time, include the entire Wabash aftermarket portfolio and a wide range of transportation parts with increased inventory and faster shipping. In addition, the network utilizes Wabash’s extensive network of equipment dealers’ service capabilities, as well as the infrastructure of industry-leading partners of national wholesale distribution for aftermarket heavy-duty truck and trailers parts, using multiple distribution centers across the United States.

▪Process Systems

◦Process Systems. Product offerings include stainless steel storage tanks and silos, mixers, and processors for the dairy, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical, craft brewing, and biotech end markets. As further described in Note 21 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II Item 8 of this Form 10-K, during the second quarter of 2021 we sold the Extract Technology® business. Extract Technology® manufactured stainless steel isolators and downflow booths, as well as custom-fabricated equipment including workstations and drum booths for the pharmaceutical, fine chemical, biotech, and nuclear end markets.

▪Other Parts & Services Product Offerings

◦Trailers as a Service (TAAS)SM. Our TAAS initiative combines our market-leading trailer products with emerging capabilities like parts distribution and a growing maintenance and repair network in order to provide a valuable suite of services to our customers and contribute to our growing base of recurring revenue in our Parts & Services operating segment.

◦Composites. Our Composites products focus on the use of DuraPlate® composite panels and EcoNex TM technology beyond the semi-trailer market. Product offerings include truck bodies, overhead doors, and other industrial applications. We continue to develop new products and actively explore markets that can benefit from the proven performance of our proprietary technology. We offer a number of aerodynamic solutions designed to improve overall trailer aerodynamics and fuel economy, most notably the DuraPlate® AeroSkirt®, which is EPA Smartway® verified and California Air Resource Board compliant.

◦Used Trailers. These products include the sale of used trailers that do not occur through our used fleet sales center.

Customers

Our customer base has historically included many of the nation’s largest truckload common carriers, leasing companies, private fleet carriers, less-than-truckload common carriers, and package carriers. We continue to expand our customer base and achieve diversification through acquisitions, organic growth, product innovation, and through our extensive distribution and service network. All of these efforts have been accomplished while maintaining our relationships with our core customers. Our five largest customers together accounted for approximately 32%, 33%, and 30% of our aggregate net sales in 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Our largest customer accounted for 12% of our aggregate net sales in 2023. No individual customer accounted for more than 10% of our aggregate net sales in either 2022 or 2021. International sales accounted for less than 10% of net sales for each of the last three years.

We have established relationships as a supplier to many large customers in the transportation industry for our dry and refrigerated van products, platform trailers, and tank trailers, including the following:

▪Truckload Carriers: Averitt Express, Inc.; Crete Carrier Corporation; J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.; and Werner Enterprises, Inc.

▪Less-Than-Truckload Carriers: Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc.; R&L Carriers, Inc.; and Saia, Inc.

▪Leasing Companies: Penske Truck Leasing Company; Ryder System, Inc.

▪Private Fleets: Kroger; Target Corporation; and Walmart.

▪Liquid Carriers: Dana Liquid Transport Corporation; Oakley Transport, Inc.; Quality Carriers, Inc.; and Sprint Transport, LLC.

Through our engineered products component of the Parts & Services segment we also sell our products to other customers including, but not limited to, GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited and W.M. Sprinkman.

In addition, we sell our truck bodies to fleet leasing customers and direct customers including, but not limited to: Budget Truck Rental, LLC; Enterprise Holdings, Inc.; Penske Truck Leasing Company; and Ryder System, Inc. Notable end users of our truck body products include, but are not limited to: Krispy Kreme, Inc.; Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits of America; and Costco Wholesale Corporation.

Marketing and Distribution

We market and distribute our products through the following channels:

▪Factory direct accounts; and

▪Independent dealerships.

Factory direct accounts are generally large fleets that are high volume purchasers. Historically, we have focused on the factory direct market in which customers are highly knowledgeable of the life-cycle costs of equipment and, therefore, are best equipped to appreciate the innovative design and value-added features of our products, as well as the value proposition for lower total cost of ownership over the life-cycle of our products.

We also sell our van, platform, and tank trailers through a network of independent dealers. Additionally, our truck body products are sold through commercial dealers. Our dealers primarily serve mid-market and smaller sized carriers and private fleets in the geographic region where the dealer is located and occasionally may sell to large fleets. The dealers may also perform service and warranty work for our customers.

Raw Materials

We utilize a variety of raw materials and components including, but not limited to, specialty steel coil, stainless steel, plastic, aluminum, lumber, tires, landing gear, axles and suspensions, which we purchase from a limited number of suppliers. While we manage some of our commodity price changes by entering into fixed price contracts with our suppliers and through financial derivatives, raw material costs as a percentage of net sales for 2023 increased slightly compared to 2022. Significant price fluctuations or shortages in raw materials or finished components have had, and could have in the future, adverse effects on our results of operations. In 2024 and for the foreseeable future, we expect that the raw materials used in the greatest quantity will be steel, aluminum, plastic, and wood. We will continue to endeavor to pass along raw material and component cost increases. Price increases used to offset inflation or disruption of supply in core materials have generally been successful, although sometimes are delayed. Increases in prices for these purposes represent a risk in execution. In an effort to minimize the effect of price fluctuations, we hedge certain commodities that have the potential to significantly impact our results of operations.

Backlog

Orders that have been confirmed by customers in writing and have defined delivery timeframes are included in our backlog. Orders that comprise our backlog may be subject to changes in quantities, delivery, specifications, terms, or cancellation. The following table presents backlog information as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 (in millions):

The decrease in rolling 12-month backlog and total backlog from December 31, 2022 is primarily related to the current order season materializing similarly to the calendarization of many years prior to COVID-19, particularly for our dry van products. Our observation thus far during the current season for dry vans generally align with industry forecasters in that demand seems poised for a modest pullback.

In addition, we continue to believe that our long-term relationship agreements with certain strategic customers (including J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., which we announced in January, 2023) will provide a good base of backlog for years to come. Refer to the “Outlook” section below for additional details related to industry and market conditions.

Patents and Intellectual Property

We hold or have applied for 153 patents in the U.S. on various components and techniques utilized in our manufacture of transportation equipment and engineered products. In addition, we hold or have applied for 153 patents or registered designs in foreign countries. Our patents include intellectual property related to the manufacture of trailers, containers, truck bodies, platform trailers, tanks, and other engineered products—all of which we believe offer us a significant competitive advantage in the markets in which we compete.

Many of our patents include intellectual property related to the manufacture of trailers, containers, truck bodies, and platforms using our proprietary EcoNex TM Technology. Our EcoNex TM Technology is a molded structural composite technology and these patents and patent applications cover the use of extruded foam bricks assembled and cured together in different configurations with resins and fiber mats to create various components and structures including, for example, wall panels and flooring assemblies. We believe the intellectual property related to this use of composite technology in our industry, including proprietary knowledge of the processes involved in manufacturing these components and the resulting products, will offer us a significant market advantage to continue to create proprietary products exploiting this technology. These patent applications will not begin to expire until 2036.

Our DuraPlate® patent portfolio includes several patents and pending patent applications, which cover not only utilization of our DuraPlate® products in the manufacture of trailers, but also cover a number of aerodynamic-related products aimed at increasing the fuel efficiency of trailers, including DuraPlate AeroSkirt®. U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications in our DuraPlate® patent portfolio have expiration dates extending until 2036. Certain U.S. patents relating to the combined use of DuraPlate® panels and logistics systems within the sidewalls of our dry van trailers will not expire until 2027 or after; several other issued U.S. patents and pending patent applications relating to the use of DuraPlate® panels, or other composite materials, within aerodynamic-related products will not begin to expire until after 2030. Additionally, we also believe that our proprietary DuraPlate® and DuraPlate® Cell Core production processes, which have been developed and refined since 1995, offer us a significant competitive advantage in the industry—above and beyond the benefits provided by any patent protection concerning the use and/or design of our DuraPlate® products. We believe the proprietary knowledge of these processes and the significant intellectual and capital hurdles in creating similar production processes provide us with an advantage over others in the industry who utilize composite sandwich panel technology.

Additionally, our intellectual property portfolio includes patents related to the rear impact guard (“RIG”). The RIG patents include RIG designs which surpass the new federal regulatory RIG standards for the U.S. and Canada and will not begin to expire until 2035.

In addition, our intellectual property portfolio includes patents and patent applications covering many trailer industry components. These products have become highly desirable and are recognized for their innovation in the markets we serve. These patents include, for example, those covering the Trust Lock Plus® door locking mechanism, the Max Clearance® Overhead Door System, which provides additional overhead clearance when an overhead-style rear door is in the opened position that would be comparable to that of swing-door models, the use of bonded or riveted intermediate logistics strips, the bonded D-ring hold-down device, bonded skylights, and the DuraPlate® arched roof. The patents covering these products will not expire before 2029. We believe all of these proprietary products offer us a competitive market advantage in the industries in which we compete.

We also hold or have applied for 46 trademarks in the U.S. as well as 73 trademarks in foreign countries. These trademarks include the Wabash® brand as well as trademarks associated with our proprietary technologies and products such as DuraPlate®, MaxClearance® Overhead Door System, Trust Lock Plus®, EZ-7®, DuraPlate Aeroskirt®, Aeroskirt CX®, DuraPlate HD®, Lock-Rite®, and EZ-Adjust®. Further, our EcoNex TM Technology trademark application currently pending in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Australia covers our proprietary molded structural composites technology featured in many of our refrigerated solutions. Additional trademark and service mark applications covering our proprietary technologies include Acutherm TM covering an intelligent thermal management system of components, products, and solutions as well as our Trailers as a Service (TAAS)™ platform for providing customers with trailer pool services. We believe all of these trademarks are important for the identification of our products and the associated customer goodwill; however, our business is not materially dependent on such trademarks.

Environmental Matters

Our facilities are subject to various environmental laws and regulations, including those relating to air emissions, climate change, wastewater discharges, the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and occupational safety and health. Our operations and facilities have been, and in the future may become, the subject of enforcement actions or proceedings for non-compliance with such laws or for remediation of company-related releases of substances into the environment. Resolution of such matters with regulators can result in commitments to compliance abatement or remediation programs and, in some cases, the payment of penalties (see “Legal Proceedings” in Part I, Item 3 for more details).

We believe that our facilities are in substantial compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. Our facilities have incurred, and will continue to incur, capital and operating expenditures and other costs in complying with these laws and regulations. However, we currently do not anticipate that the future costs of environmental compliance will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.

Website Access to Company Reports

We use our Investor Relations website, ir.onewabash.com, as a channel for routine distribution of important information, including news releases, presentations, and financial information. We post filings as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including our annual, quarterly, and current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, our proxy statements, and any amendments to those reports or statements. All such postings and filings are available on our Investor Relations website. The SEC also maintains a website, www.sec.gov, that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The content on any website referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K unless expressly noted.

Information About Our Executive Officers

The following are the executive officers of the Company:

Brent L. Yeagy. Since June 2018, Mr. Yeagy has been responsible for the strategic direction and operations of Wabash in his role as President and Chief Executive Officer. Before his appointment as President and CEO, Mr. Yeagy was President and Chief Operating Officer from October 2016 to June 2018. Mr. Yeagy joined Wabash in 2003 and held a number of positions with increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Manufacturing, Vice President and General Manager of Commercial Trailer Products, and Senior Vice President – Group President, Commercial Trailer Products. Prior to Wabash, from 1999 to 2003, Mr. Yeagy held various positions within human resources, environmental engineering, and safety management for Delco Remy International. Mr. Yeagy served in various plant engineering roles at Rexnord Corporation from December 1995 through 1999. He also served in the United States Navy from 1991 to 1994. Mr. Yeagy holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering Science and a Master of Science in Safety Engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA in Business Management from Anderson University. He has also attended executive programs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business as well as Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Mr. Yeagy is a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Nuclear Power Program and participated in the Navy’s Officer Candidate Program.

M. Kristin Glazner. Ms. Glazner was appointed to Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (“CAO”) in December 2023. She remains General Counsel, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Corporate Secretary, roles in which she has served since June, 2020, in addition to her added responsibility of Chief Administrative Officer. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer since November 2018. Ms. Glazner joined Wabash in February 2010 as Corporate Counsel and served in that role until October 2017, when she was appointed to the position of Vice President – Human Resources and Legal Administration, then Vice President – Corporate Human Resources. Before joining Wabash, Ms. Glazner was an attorney with the law firm Baker & Daniels LLP (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) from 2002 to 2010. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Butler University.

Kevin J. Page. Mr. Page was appointed to Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer and has served in the role since March 23, 2020. He previously served as Wabash’s Senior Vice President and Group President, Diversified Products Group and Final Mile Products since January 2020, after serving as Senior Vice President and Group President, Diversified Products Group from October 2017 to January 2020. Mr. Page joined Wabash in February 2017 as Vice President and General Manager, Final Mile and Distributed Services. Prior to Wabash, he was Interim President of Truck Accessories Group, LLC from 2015 to 2016, and Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development from 2012 to 2015. He served as President of Universal Trailer Cargo Group from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Page also had a 23-year tenure at Utilimaster Corporation serving in various sales roles, including as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Page has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wabash College and an MBA (Executive) from Notre Dame. Throughout his career he has also completed executive programs at the University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, University of Michigan and American Management Association.

Michael N. Pettit. Mr. Pettit was appointed to Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in January 2020. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Group President, Final Mile Products (2018-2020) and Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations (2014–2018). He joined Wabash in 2012 as Director of Finance for Commercial Trailer Products. Prior to Wabash, from 1998 to 2012, Mr. Pettit held various finance positions with increasing responsibility at Ford Motor Company. With more than 20 years of experience in the transportation industry, he has a broad understanding of strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, pricing strategy, production planning, and lean manufacturing processes and principles. Mr. Pettit has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Purdue University and an MBA from Indiana University.

Dustin T. Smith. Mr. Smith was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer in December 2023. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer from June 2021 to December 2023 and as Senior Vice President, Global Operations from March 2020 to June 2021. Mr. Smith joined Wabash in 2007 and has held a number of positions with increasing responsibility, including Director of Finance, Director of Manufacturing, Vice President of Manufacturing, Senior Vice President and General Manager - Commercial Trailer Products, and Senior Vice President and Group President - Commercial Trailer Products. Prior to Wabash, from 2000 to 2007, Mr. Smith held various positions at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan, across both product development and manufacturing divisions, including Plant Controller. His 23+ years of experience in finance and operations gives Mr. Smith a unique understanding of how manufacturing systems directly affect financial results. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and an MBA in Corporate Finance from Purdue University. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, in addition to attending several executive programs at the Booth School of Management from University of Chicago.