By Don Sitter Wabash National Corporation Lafayette, Indiana Wabash National Corp., headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, is one of the country's largest semi-trailer builders. RoadRailer trailers are unique vehicles.
Individual trailers travel over highways behind ordinary truck tractors.
However, multiple units are coupled together to form trains which travel directly by rail. Here, as in any industry, a quality product requires a strong knowledge of the users' worlds. Wabash National technicians and engineers spent hundreds of hours in trucks rail cars gathering data for this very purpose. Now, however, dependable data acquisition does not have to be a manned ordeal. The SoMat FCS can be programmed to do many different data acquisition tasks which can be started, stopped or sequenced by simple switch settings.