Recently on their Pecos, TX test track, MVT Solutions conducted fuel economy tests on Utility’s Aerodynamic Side Skirt (USS-120A-4) and the Utility Aerodynamic Tail (UAT).
With COVID-19 drawing everyone’s attention, it became easy to overlook a significant milestone at the Glade Spring dry van manufacturing plant — its 20th anniversary.
Plans changed for many businesses. That was true for the Workforce Heroes Program and its recruitment tour through the nation. “Our whole program changed as a result of the pandemic,” said Elizabeth Barna, EVP, Industry Affairs & Senior Advisor to the President & CEO of American Trucking Associations.
“Work Hard. Play Hard. Do Good.” is the motto at Craftsmen Utility Trailer, and “Doing Good” is lived out through Craftsmen Cares, a charitable foundation established by the Helmsing family through Craftsmen Utility Trailer.
Over the past year, one would regularly turn on the news to hear about the stress that health care workers were under as they cared for COVID-19 patients. Team members at Utility’s Glade Spring, VA plant asked what they could do to show them they cared.
In 2020, Utility’s Glade Spring, Virginia manufacturing plant received the Southwest Virginia Alliance for Manufacturing (SVAM) Excellence in Safety Award.