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Stoughton Trailers

Stoughton Trailers is a good company by most standards, and it presents an appropriate environment of challenges to develop and build personal experience and success.  You can do this through your own personal business skills, leadership skills, and by building interpersonal linkages with its management, employees, and teams

You become what you want to be through hard work and meeting your commitments. Do what you say you will do, treat people with respect, and meet your job commitments and you will go a long way at Stoughton Trailers. 

It is a hard work environment with tough leadership, management, and interpersonal communication challenges that you can solve and move the company forward. You need to continuously sell who you are, demonstrate your expertise, establish relationships and partnerships, and continue accomplish results. 

 It is imperative that you continuously build your credibility within the organization. Those who sit around and complain about things will not realize a fruitful career at Stoughton Trailers. The operating discipline is to bring solutions, not just problems. You are given plenty of opportunities to learn how to solve organizational problems and work with a diverse group of people and teams. Stoughton Trailers is not an easy professional job, and it is a hard floor labor job. 

Stoughton Trailers is a good family owned business, and the family has its heart and intentions in the right place for the good of its employees.  It's just that it needs help from people who join it to execute those intentions.   It implemented a company-wide management and team training program to teach its leadership team how to implement the meaning of its core values of Leadership, Integrity, Respect, and Customer Driven (LIRC).  The LIRC-1 program was attended and supported by the executive team, upper and mid-level managers,  and team leaders.   LIRC-1 made progress in improving manger interactions, communications,  and relationships with all  production line operations and their employees.  

 It is also a greatly kept secret for being an organization that builds people by offering personal development challenges and by giving you an opportunity to lead projects that will create success. If you are just a talker and not a doer, you will not last long at Stoughton Trailers.  The burden of success is on you by proving what you can do to make the company a success.

What is the best part of working at the company?
One of the most rewarding aspects of working for Stoughton is being part of a large organization that maintains a strong, family-oriented culture. The company promotes a healthy work–life balance and consistently demonstrates its commitment to employees through a variety of events and community involvement initiatives. Additionally, Stoughton offers exceptional benefits that support both employees and their families.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
One of the more challenging aspects of working at the company is the fast-paced environment. We supply trailers to large customers who place high-volume orders, making strict adherence to timelines critical. Meeting deadlines is essential to maintaining production schedules and ensuring customer satisfaction.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment at Stoughton is clean, well-organized, and thoughtfully structured, providing employees with a safe and efficient place to work. The company culture is strongly family-oriented and fosters a collaborative, team-based atmosphere.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day begins with meeting with the team to review and communicate the day’s schedule. Maintaining a visible presence on the production floor helps ensure employees stay on track while allowing leadership to provide guidance and support as needed.

What is the best part of working at the company?

The environment pushes you to stay accountable and take pride in your work. If you’re willing to put in the effort, opportunities to grow within the company are available. We also have a great team which makes the day to day easier to come in. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Unexpected issues come up that require immediate attention, which can be stressful in the moment, but it keeps the job engaging and helps develop strong problem-solving skills. The trailer industry is constantly evolving, and customers often want new technology incorporated into their products, which can come with a learning curve—but it creates opportunities to grow and adapt.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It’s a hands-on, fast-moving environment where teamwork is key. Everyone has a role, and success depends on communication, effort, and staying on top of responsibilities. We run as a family like unit. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
As a group leader, my day-to-day is always changing. A big part of my role is making sure the team stays engaged and that we’re consistently producing high-quality trailers. It comes with a lot of responsibility, but the key is staying proactive, being available, and remaining approachable so issues can be handled quickly and efficiently.

As a diversified transportation business, Stoughton Trailer has outstanding strength in manufacturing, engineering and distribution of top quality semi-trailers. They build some of the best units available. Other divisions in this company pale in comparison. One of 3 areas I worked in had changes that were mandated from new management where the division lost huge numbers of customers, sales and gross profit because of improper sales, marketing and distribution policy/changes that took effect. Very unprofessional! Just think about what happened to the 2002 Washington Redskins football team! Opportunity to advance is available most of the time. A normal work day can include extended hours. Employee cooperation is outstanding between most workers and managers. Some workers/managers are inefficient and drag operations down. These individuals seem to be “protected” and will not be held accountable for hurting or destroying productivity. This industry has hills and valleys that will positively and negatively affect you and your family. I learned that doing an outstanding job will bring rewards with most managers and harassment from incompetent managers.

Where to begin with all the faults of this company? There is no advancement in this company. After working there for nearly 3 years there were little opportunities to move up. Even after gaining new certifications and training there was no pay raise. There’s was also a major problem with s-harassment there. Going to hr was a weekly occurrence, with little being done to change. The company also claimed to be big on safety, but anytime anyone came forward with concerns they would do nothing. Have seen people go to the hospital multiple times and miss weeks of worth due to injuries that could have easily been prevented If they listened to us the first time. The higher ups are also very petty. If they don’t like you or someone in your area they will make your life miserable, but then they let others get away with huge faults. (Not putting any rivets in the wall, denting/scratching the trailers, etc). It’s a life draining job, you end up having to do 3-4 jobs in your area, AND help everyone else do their job in other areas. And on top of doing way more work than you’re being compensated for, they also have problems with getting materials on time and you will spend 6-7 hours just waiting on parts, but also expected to keep working when there’s nothing. Overall, a miserable place to work 

So the thing about working at Stoughton Trailers is that you need to find an area in which you feel accomplished by the work that you do. There are several positions that would feel monotonous to some but energizing to others; When i first started building suspensions i would end the day feeling good, but not accomplished; Stoughton Trailers however has an enormous variety of potential jobs ranging from decaling and painting, to machine operating, welding, and operating massive lasers the size of a house. After six months I found my niche as a material handler; every day presents different challenges and encourages mental flexibility in handling the day-to-day needs of the company. This kind of work i excel at and now i finish each day feeling better than when I came in. There is a lot to offer here especially once you hit 90-days; the benefits program has been expanded every year (vacation roll-over, flex-time, earnable paid-time off), and there is an onsite clinic as well.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good laid back enviroment. Overtime most the year. Easy to get a day off with communication with supervisor. Low raises. Hard to move up. Pays decent in the right job but you'll stay close to what you were hired at years later.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not very stressful at all. It's a laid back place. Nothings really hard. Cranes and Jack's everywhere never lift to much. Jobs easy. But even if you work your but off and do everything to better the plant/company you will still get little raises.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Diverse. Lots of spanish speakers from all over Latin America. Clean mostly and organized as the forklift drivers see it. You are allowed to better where you work as well. They welcome new ideas. Won't do most of them but there welcome.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Start 5 to 5:30. Depending on department
 Morning meeting then stretches. Go to your work area speak to the lead and see where you start for the day and coordinate.

It is clear that anyone in a upper management position at this company has either never done the type of associated work or did not belong in their positions to begin with. Leadership seems to have no familiarity with the work that actually goes into building their product, this includes making sure employees have proper tooling, training, and reasonable time frames for their productions goals (considering their work process is rife with issues) Not to mention the fact that not all employees are held to the same standard. They will sympathize to your face when you present REAL issues and then complain that things are taking too long. Stoughton as a whole, is only concerned with the amount of trailers produced and is not nearly much concerned about the quality of said trailers. I hope people see this and steer clear, tell everyone you know to avoid this place. The money is only worth it for so long. I would recommend that any tradesman worth their salt avoid this company like the plague, they will exhaust your time and skills until you also lose touch with the work or get thrown out like yesterday's trash.

I've worked here for about 2 years and it seems like everyone they hire gets put into one area that would have 2-3 people when they need 4-5 and there are some spots that have 8-9 and only need 6. Management isn't terrible but it's so limited there are some nights where you can't find a manager till it's almost time to go home. Safety here is also a joke. They started a safety committee almost a year back and nothing was changed and when they do change something it unnecessary. Also say what you want about the night and day shift wars but this place always has day shifts back. I'd leave them something to work with every night and then day shift would hide everything then we have to go hunt down our tools again.
As for the hours, Since it's near the end of the year if you don't hit your number you have to stay till you get it done or 12 hours is up. With that being said I've had numerous occasions where my co-workers would say to me "My time is 4:30 to 3:00. I'm leaving." then I'd be stuck by myself.

In my role each day presents different challenges. Some days are mostly office tasks, such as completing invoices and managing vendors. Other days are spent outside inspecting trailers for repairs and receiving returns from customers. In my short time with the company, I have learned the ends and outs of the trailers and their components and the processes to get them repaired and back on the road. I feel that the management at Stoughton truly cares and wants us to do well in our positions and gives us to tools to do so.  The hardest part about this position so far for me has been perfecting my organizational skills, there can be a lot to keep track of at times. The most enjoyable part of this job has been the freedom given to us to do our day-to-day tasks the way we see fit. It has been refreshingly nice to have the freedom to pick and choose what tasks I feel need to be done as long as everything gets completed in a timely manner.

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