ShowHauler

SHOWHAULER TRUCKS INC. tomers innovative solutions, top qual- ity workmanship, and industry leading customer support. “Everything is custom built,” says Troyer. “Either one of our dealers has designed the unit to put on his lot, or it is sold through a dealer, built to what an individual wants. For exam- ple, say you wanted one of our coach- es; we do not sell anything direct, so it would get turned over to a dealer of your choice, and it goes from there. Everybody’s got their own ideas and dreams of what they want in their RV, and we try and build that for them.” The company has 13 dealers across the country, who sell a total of about 50 units a year, “depending on how custom they get,” says Troyer. The Great Recession severely impacted the entire RV business, and ShowHauler Trucks was not immune to the economic downturn. AT A GLANCE SHOWHAULER TRUCKS INC. WHAT: A leading builder of custom truck conversions WHERE: Middlebury, Indiana WEBSITE: www.showhauler.com “I went from 40-plus people on the line to seven,” Troyer recounts. Today, though, the company is back up to over 40 employees and has a backlog of custom orders. “We’ve got ads, right now, for new people,” he reports. “The prob- lem is Elkhart County is twenty thousand people short of the jobs available. It makes it a little tough when larger companies are send- ing a bus over an hour-and-a-half away to bus people in. I know of another company sending a bus in the other direction an hour away to bring people in. And it’s hard to hire when you’ve got a three percent unemployment rate.” Regardless of the return to better times, Troyer maintains that the company’s business model