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Greetings and welcome to the Oshkosh Corporation Fiscal 2012 Third Quarter Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Patrick Davidson, Vice President of Investor Relations for Oshkosh Corporation. Thank you. Mr. Davidson, you may begin. Patrick Davidson – Vice President, Investor Relations: Thanks, (Claudia). Good morning everybody and thanks for joining us. Earlier today, we published our third quarter results for fiscal 2012. A copy of that release is available on our website at oshkoshcorporation.com. Today’s call is being webcast and is accompanied by a slide presentation, which is also available on our website. The audio replay and slide presentation will be available on our website for approximately 12 months, and please refer now to Slide 2 of that presentation. Our remarks that follow, including answers to your questions, include statements that we believe to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks that could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include, among others, matters that we have described in our Form 8-K filed with the SEC this morning and other filings we make with the SEC. We disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, which may not be updated until our next quarterly earnings conference call, if at all. Presenting today for Oshkosh Corporation will be Charlie Szews, President and Chief Executive Officer and Dave Sagehorn, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Let’s begin by turning to slide 3 and I’ll turn it over to you, Charlie. Charlie Szews – President and Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Patrick. Good morning. Today, with our third fiscal quarter results, we are beginning to realize the benefits of Oshkosh’s MOVE strategy. Since implementing our MOVE strategy a little over a year ago, we have been focused on the disciplined execution of the initiatives developed to support this strategy with the expectation that we would begin to enhance value for our shareholders in fiscal 2012 of more meaningful benefits beginning in fiscal 2013. We believe our third quarter results demonstrate that we are on track to deliver on our objective. We are pleased with these results which exceeded our expectations and reflect the opportunities for strong earnings growth and increased shareholder value that we believe lie ahead. For the third quarter of fiscal 2012, total company sales increased 7.6% to $2.18 billion compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Earnings per share was $0.82 versus $0.75 in the prior year quarter. Our results were driven by improved operating performance and operating income margins across all our non-defense segments offset by lower defense earnings. Results for the current year quarter also include $0.07 per share of discrete tax benefits. Broadly, we saw continued progress in our non-defense businesses this quarter. Strong replacement driven demand for our access equipment products led to 40.4% year-over-year sales growth. Along with significantly higher operating income and improved margins into this segment, we are also pleased with our continued progress in raising margins in the commercial segment in the face of very challenging market conditions and returning the Fire and Emergency segment to profitability this quarter. As you may have seen today, we also announced plans they have the two small underperforming business that have been negatively impacting results in our Fire and Emergency segment. These actions will help improve our profitability in fiscal 2013 and allow us to focus our resources on profitably growing our larger fire apparatus and airport products businesses in this segment. To move initiatives underway at Oshkosh and the continued focus on improving the performance of our business are beginning to positively impact our cost structure, our ability to innovate an international revenue expansion. We are building momentum and maintain our view that our non-defense businesses will drive our success within the next several years. We also recently announced some changes to executive operating teams that are important for our long-term performance. Wilson Jones will not serve as our President and Chief Operating Officer effective next week. Wilson has led two of our segments, building strong teams in delivering customer focused results. His multi-industry experience, ability to manage all aspects of the business and leadership qualities to motivate our teams to execute at the highest levels will benefit our entire organization. Wilson will join us on these calls beginning next quarter. Frank Nerenhausen will assume Wilson's former role as President of the Access Equipment segment. Frank and his team have performed extremely well over the past couple of years in our Commercial segment, taking an operation that has been especially hard hit by the recession and returning it to profitability with an operating income margin nearly 7% in the quarter just ended when the industry volumes remained down on 40% and 90%. Like Wilson, Frank brings excellent leadership qualities and a drive to perform every day. Todd Fierro will follow Frank to lead our Commercial segment. He has been one of the driving forces for change and improvement in the Commercial segment as the Vice President of Operations. Todd has a lean transformation in this segment. It is important to these highly competitive businesses. I am confident that each of these leaders will be successful in their new roles and as a team we expect to drive MOVE initiatives faster to deliver tangible results for shareholders. Let’s talk about our current market condition. I’ll turn to slide four. Led by our performance in North America, Access Equipment segment delivered double digit sales growth this quarter in all major regions. We continued to benefit from replacement demand in North America equipment utilization, rental rates and used equipment values remain attractive and we believe that replacement demand in this region will remain solid. Looking at access equipment performance across the globe we remain encouraged by the underlying drivers of long-term demand for access equipment. Specifically increased product adoption and infrastructure build out in the less developed markets. Europe remains the mixed bag as it has been for sometime given the economic uncertainty in that region and growth rates have slowed in some other markets. We’re watching to see how these events play out so that we can take advantage of opportunities and be responsive to challenges. In our Defense segment we recently announced an order in the United Arab Emirates which is our first large international order for M-ATV. We’ve talked for the last several quarters about the potential for international orders for this product. And we’re excited to expand the relationship with the UAE and move forward with this initial order for 750 units, which includes an option for close to 200 additional units. We expect to deliver all 750 M-ATVs in fiscal 2013 pending standard U.S. regulatory approval. This order is important for our defense business and further reinforces our belief that there are opportunities to continue selling M-ATV. We’ve been for – deploying business development teams in hypertension markets around the globe and believe there will be additional opportunities for global defense vehicle and aftermarket parts and service sales over the coming years. In fact John Urias and his team, his defense team participated in are very well attended and encouraging international trade show and demonstration in Paris last month. Eurosatory is an annual military trade show that focuses on defense land forces every other year. Highlights of our participation this year included an opportunity to showcase our M-ATV in a live demonstration as well as the opportunity to meet with key international military delegation have shown interest in Oshkosh defense vehicle. The U.S. fire truck market remains down and we expect this trend to continue for some period of time. Our focused efforts abroad continued to deliver results as we secured additional international orders for Pierce fire trucks as well as Oshkosh ARF and snow unit that support emergency response organizations in major airports around the world. Specifically we won some important competitions during the quarter in China, England and India. In our Commercial segment we’re seeing slow but positive improvement in residential construction trend which we believe bodes well for the concrete mixer market outlook. We also experienced another quarter of relatively strong parts sales in this segment which we view as a positive sign for future new vehicle demand. And we continue shipping a richer mix of CNG-powered units in our Commercial segment a trend which we also experienced through the first six months of our fiscal year. Let’s turn to slide five and talk about some operational initiatives. The Oshkosh operating system is gaining momentum since we reinvigorated it with strong new leadership and a sharper focus. The Oshkosh operating system is a customer-centric application of a lean operating system. Our plants are operating with (indiscernible) metrics. Integrated project teams have been formed to streamline key business processes and resolve operational challenges. And training is commencing across the company. The Oshkosh operating system will be a key contributor to delivering the optimizing cost initiative of our MOVE strategy. We will have more to report in the Oshkosh operating system and its impacts on our organization during our Analyst Day in September. JLG continued the trend of improved operating margins that we have been taking about for the last several quarters. We capture some additional pricing as expected from our price increase implemented in our second fiscal quarter. Capturing these price increases is important as we continue working to recover material cost increases that we absorbed over the past 12 to 18 month. We have communicated to customers that we expected increased prices again January 2013 as it is important to fully recover our cost increases in this business and deliver acceptable margins over the economic cycle. We also benefited this quarter from higher volumes and operational efficiencies in this segment. In Defense, the team delivered another quarter of improved performance on the FMTV program. During the quarter, we worked with our U.S. Army customer to adjust FMTV delivery schedules for fiscal 2013 and 2014 to better match our customer needs, at the same time, better utilize our production capacity. Basically, we’ll be building a same quantity of vehicles over the two-year period with some of the production volume shifting to fiscal 2014. In the Fire and Emergency segment, we have made progress in the quarter of improving the operational efficiency of our fire apparatus manufacturing. This is key to driving margins to acceptable levels in this low volume environment. As I mentioned earlier, to allow us to better focus on improving the performance of our major product lines in this segment, we announced today that we’ll be exiting the ambulance business and the European mobile medical business. We had expected that the move of ambulance production to Florida would result in significantly improved performance for the Med Tech Ambulance product line. Our current view is that despite the effort of numerous dedicated individuals and teams, we would not be able to achieve profitability for Med Tech Ambulances in a reasonable timeframe, if at all and as a result, we will turn our focus to other initiatives. We expect to incur pre-tax charges of approximately $15 million to $20 million related to these actions with approximately $14 million to $18 million of that number expected in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 and the remainder largely in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 as we build out our backlog of ambulance orders. Our Commercial segment delivered another solid quarter driven by stronger volumes and focused execution utilizing their principles of the Oshkosh operating system. We expect to continue driving improved results at the Commercial segment and throughout all of Oshkosh Corporation as the Oshkosh operating system becomes more engrained in our everyday activity. Now, please turn to slide six and Dave will take us through a brief discussion of our financial performance for the quarter and our updated expectations for fiscal 2012. Dave Sagehorn – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer: Thanks, Charlie and good morning everyone. Consolidated net sales for our third fiscal quarter were $2.18 billion, an increase of 7.6% from the prior year quarter. Each of our non-defense segments experienced higher sales compared to the prior year quarter led by a 40.4% increase in the Access Equipment segment. These higher sales helped offset a 13.4% decrease in defense segment sales compared to the prior year quarter. Consolidated operating income for the quarter was $124.5 million or 5.7% of sales. This compares to operating income of $126 million or 6.2% of sales in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Improved performance in our non-defense segment largely offset the continued shift from higher margin FHTV vehicle and after-market parts sales to lower margin FMTV vehicle sales in the Defense segment. Both the Access Equipment and Commercial segments realized strong incremental margins in the quarter. And as expected, the Fire and Emergency segment was profitable in the quarter. More information on our third quarter segment performance can be found in the appendix section of this morning’s slide deck. As Charlie mentioned, earnings per share for the quarter was $0.82, which included a $0.07 per share of discrete tax benefit. This compares to $0.75 earnings per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Overall, we are pleased with the third quarter performance and believe that these results are evidenced of the efforts and focus of the entire Oshkosh team on successfully managing the business in the face of continued challenging end markets. Subsequent to the end of the quarter, we successfully refinanced our credit agreement, which included among other things lowering the interest rates spread by 100 basis points adjusting the leverage ratios, at which the interest rate spreads change and increasing the restricted payments basket to match those in our senior notes. These changes apply only to our credit agreement, which is comprised of the term loan A with $455 million outstanding as of June 30, 2012 and following the amendment of $525 million revolver, which was undrawn on as of June 30, 2012. Please turn to slide seven for a review of our current outlook for the remainder of our fiscal 2012. We are again increasing our outlook for fiscal 2012 compared to what we provided on our last earnings call, largely as a result of our third quarter performance. We now believe that Access Equipment segment sales will be approximately 40% higher than fiscal 2011 compared to our previous estimate of 35% to 40% higher. We expected operating income margins in this segment will be in the 7.5% to 8% range consistent with our previous estimate. We expect fourth quarter sales and operating income margins in the segment will be lower than in the third quarter, reflecting the seasonal pattern that this segment traditionally experiences. In our Defense segment, we believe sales for the year will be approximately 10% lower than the prior year versus our previous estimate that it would decrease by 10% to 15%. With the continued improvement in FMTV margins, we now believe that operating income margin in this segment will be between 5% and 5.5% for the full year. We continue to believe that Fire and Emergency segment sales will be up slightly compared to fiscal 2011. We now believe that this segment will report a small full year operating loss compared to our previous estimate of breakeven. We do expect the segment to report sequentially improved profitability from the third and fourth fiscal quarters however. These estimates do not include any of the expected costs associated with exiting our ambulance and European mobile medical businesses. We lowered our full year earnings estimates largely due to costs incurred during the third quarter associated with the integration of Med Tech into our Florida operations. We now believe that full year sales in our Commercial segment will be up approximately 20% compared to fiscal 2011. Our previous estimate was an increase of 15%. We believe that operating income margins in this segment will be in the 3.5% to 4% range, reflecting the continued progress being made by the commercial team. We expect our operating income margin to decline from the third to fourth fiscal quarter due largely to investments in our MOVE strategy. We now believe that corporate expenses will be approximately flat with fiscal 2011 and net interest expense will be lower than in fiscal 2011 due to the expiration of our interest rate swap and the full year impact of fiscal 2011 debt reduction. We now estimate that our full year tax rate will be 29% to 30% down from our previous estimate as a result of discrete items recorded in our third quarter. Finally, we are updating our estimated full year capital expenditures to be between $50 million and $60 million. Summing it up, we expect fourth quarter fiscal 2012 earnings per share to be slightly higher than either our first or second quarter earnings per share. We plan on providing an initial view of our outlook for fiscal 2013 at our upcoming Analyst Day. I would also like to note that with our debt level now within our targeted range, we believe there will be opportunities to increase shareholder value through selective repurchases of our common stock. Our Board of Directors has approved a 4 million share increase in the amount of common stock that management is authorized to repurchase. Combined with the approximately 3.2 million shares currently authorized, management now has the authority to repurchase up to approximately 7.2 million shares. We do expect that we will begin to selectively repurchase some of our shares. I’ll turn it back over to Charlie for some closing comments. Charlie Szews – President and Chief Executive Officer: It seems that for every positive data point in the news, there is another data point that leads to some doubt in the recovery. Regardless of the daily headlines, we are all reading, we believe we are at the front end of a slow economic recovery and that our businesses are moving in the right direction and with significant upside ahead for Oshkosh. We believe we have the right team and the right roadmap to guide us and drive shareholder value with our MOVE strategy as we transitioned for global industrial company. That concludes our formal comments here to answer your questions. So, I will turn it back over to Pat to get the Q&A started. Patrick Davidson – Vice President, Investor Relations: Thanks, Charlie, and I’d like to remind everyone, please limit your questions to one, plus a follow-up, and then after the follow-up, now we ask that you get back in queue if you’d like to ask additional questions. Claudia, let’s begin the question-and-answer period of the call, please.