TRAILER MAKERS * USA: Stoughton Trailers'

* Wiscosin - Stoughton Trailers faces dual challenge building transportation equipment for nation's trucks, railroads

(Photo: Welders work on steel components for semitrailers in early June in Stoughton Trailers' main production plant on Veterans Road in Stoughton. The transportation equipment manufacturer is hiring now amid growing demand for its semitrailers from trucking companies, even as its business making containers and chassis for railroad transportation suffers from what the company considers unfair Chinese competition) Stoughton,WIS,USA -The Wisconsin State Journal, by Karen Rivedal -15 June 2014: -- Stoughton Trailers president Robert Wahlin is facing an unusual challenge — in one half of his business, managing growth, hiring and new product development, while just trying to keep the other half of it afloat... On one hand, it’s smooth sailing. On the other, constant crisis... Stoughton Trailers, it’s one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of truck semitrailers, which transport goods in a 53-foot-long box with a permanently attached chassis and rear wheels... An estimated 150,000 Stoughton Trailers-made semitrailers are on the highway now in the U.S. and Canada, according to the company...