Wabash National Corporation (WNC)
Truck trailer and body maker, 4,700 employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 201 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
16%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
4,700
Leading staffing pattern
Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now16%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 76%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states 4,700 employees of one trailer and truck body business with nothing counted by segment, so one trailer manufacturing pattern carries the workforce.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 16% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 15% people work and 61% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 76% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; it names plants in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota and Mexico.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 4,700 Wabash employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): dry van and refrigerated trailers, truck bodies and parts made at its plants, with services inside; the filing counts no employees by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,700 employees, down from 6,000 a year earlier and 6,900 in 2022; welding and skills training courses; a recordable incident rate of 4.2.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Thor Industries, Inc. (THO, 19,500 employees)16% now, 23% by 2028
- Federal Signal Corporation (FSS, 5,800 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
- Aebi Schmidt Holding AG (AEBI, 5,700 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
- Winnebago Industries, Inc. (WGO, 5,300 employees)16% now, 24% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes trailers-as-a-service powered by its TrailerHawk.AI technology and names increasing use of AI among the risks to its systems.
- “Our "forward-looking statements" include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: ▪ the cyclical nature of our business and impact of economic conditions on markets, customers, and demand for our products; ▪ unfairly traded imports of dry vans and refrigerated trailers that may injure or threaten with injury America's domestic dry van and refrigerated trailer industry; ▪ changes in our cu...”
- “Powered by TrailerHawk.AI technology, TaaS eliminates capital expenses while delivering premium equipment, comprehensive maintenance, and advanced cargo and asset assurance.”
- “Increasing use of artificial intelligence may increase these risks.”
- “We may use artificial intelligence in our business and challenges in managing its use could result in reputational harm or liability, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations.”
- “We may leverage artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning, in our business, including in product development, operations and software programming.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 202512median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4,700 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 6,000 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,700 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,900 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,200 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 5,800 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 6,900 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 7,100 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,500 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,100 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,300 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,100 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 4,400 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 4,400 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,600 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,800 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 1,600 | 2010-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,800 | 2009-04-14 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,100 | 2008-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 3,600 | 2007-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,300 | 2006-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 3,300 | 2005-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 3,300 | 2004-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 3,600 | 2003-04-15 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 5,200 | 2002-04-15 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 5,200 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 5,600 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 5,302 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 4,320 | 1998-02-04 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | not read | 1997-02-10 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's 22,000 is a count of online courses completed, not people; rule 2 takes the stated 4,700.
- No count by segment or country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000879526-26-000036, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Wabash National Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Wabash National Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Wabash National Corporation employ?
- 4,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Wabash National Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 15% people work and 61% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Wabash National Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 12 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 3 and 12 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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