A lack of workers, supply chain disruptions and the effective end of the order cycle combined to push new trailer orders down 58% year over year in July.
Manufacturers would have built more equipment to meet strong demand “if the supply chain would have been more robust,” Wabash National Corp. President and CEO Brent Yeagy told FreightWaves.
“We have generally met our ramp targets for 2021,” he said. “We could have probably exceeded them based on the demand that we have.”
Suppliers’ own issues...