Wabash’s Earnings Decline in Third Quarter

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railer maker Wabash National Corp. reported Thursday net income of $5 million or 15 cents a share for the third quarter, compared with $24 million or 66 cents last year.

Net sales for the quarter rose to $362 million from $294 million in 2005.

"Van trailer shipments of 15,200 units were right in line with our expectations,” said Bill Greubel, chief executive officer of Wabash. “However, as anticipated, results were adversely affected by the tailing effect of bringing our ERP system on-line.



ERP, or enterprise resource planning software, helps computers with different operating systems and software packages communicate with each other.