Wabash to Quadruple Size of TaaS Fleet

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Trailer manufacturer Wabash intends to expand the size of its trucking-as-a-service fleet by as much as a factor of four by the end of 2025, an executive told Transport Topics.

Wabash’s TaaS business currently has around 1,000 trailers, but as many as 4,000 trailers may be available by the end of 2025, Brion St. Amour, senior commercial director of Wabash Marketplace, told TT.

“We are growing our fleet as a result of where we see the market in two or three years’ time,” St. Amour said on the sidelines of American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition.

Analysts and carrier executives have been expecting the weak freight market environment to take a turn for the better in the second half of 2025 and into 2026 for some time, although uncertainty over that timeline increased in recent days with the introduction and threat of recent Trump administration tariffs.

“We’re anticipating a turn in the market,” onetime attorney St. Amour said. “We’re seeing the green shoots.”

“We are building to our forecast,” St. Amour said. “As the market starts to turn, it’s an interesting time, where trailer-as-a-service can add capacity without a long-term commitment.”

TaaS is an alternative to leasing or buying a trailer for asset light third-party logistics providers.

3PLs are participating more in requests for proposals that rely on drop trailer capacity, St. Amour said, adding: “We’re bullish on these parts of the market turning.”