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Inside the small-business values mindset propelling Hercules forward as one of Kentucky’ s oldest truck body manufacturers
When Justin Wilson, President of Kentucky-based truck body manufacturer Hercules Manufacturing Co.( Hercules), swaps the boardroom for the shop floor on a busy day to help his team push through a production snag, it explains a great deal about how the company has managed to quadruple its business in under three years. His philosophy is simple.“ Don’ t lead a company you’ d be afraid to work in,” Justin relays.“ If you understand the struggles from top to bottom, you can build the confidence within your team to carry ideas forward independently.” This illustrates the way the company has grown – not through a new product or a market windfall, but by rebuilding how it treats the people who build the trucks.
With roots tracing back to 1902, Hercules began building horse-drawn buggies in Evansville, Indiana, and built its first mechanically refrigerated truck body in the 1930’ s. The company, operated under the
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