Wabash National Corporation (WNC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us and welcome to the Wabash second quarter 2026 earnings release call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to John Cummings, Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis and Investor Relations. John, please go ahead. Thank you and good afternoon everyone. We appreciate you joining us on this call. With me today are Brent Yeagy, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Pat Keslin, Chief Financial Officer. Before we get started, please note that this call is being recorded. I'd also like to point out that our earnings release, the slide presentation supplementing today's call, and any non-GAAP reconciliations are available at ir.onewabash.com. Please refer to slide two in our earnings deck for the company's safe harbor disclosure addressing forward-looking statements. I'll hand it off now to Brent. Thanks, John. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I would like to start by discussing something that is fundamental to how we operate at Wabash, safety. As we close out the second quarter, we are proud to have successfully improved our injury rate for the fourth consecutive quarter. 13% versus Q1 of 2026, 33% versus Q2 of 2025, and total injuries are down 50% year-over-year. As we look ahead to increasing dry band production, we're increasing focus on our onboarding process to elevate workplace safety and manufacturing quality. Our long-term target is an injury rate less than one, and every day we're moving closer to that attainment. The second quarter continues to strengthen our conviction that the fre...