Stahla Services: Dedicated to making your rental process smooth and easy. Committed to renting out only the highest-quality restroom and shower trailers.
- KLS
- Feb 26
- 9 min read
For the 162nd feature of our "Together Talks" campaign, we collaborated with Stahla Services and Co-Founder, Grant Stahla. When you think about it, restrooms say a lot about how much you value people. For your event guests or customers, they’re a statement about your attention to detail and how much you care about their experience. With Stahla, you get clean, spacious facilities that feel more like a hotel bathroom – complete with climate control, fresh running water, and fully-stocked supplies.
"Together Talks" feature # 162: Stahla Services presented by KLS - Your Trusted Shipping Solutions In The USA
Can you reflect on a goal you set, achieved, and how it made you feel? How have you dealt with being the face of the company?
How have you grown due to becoming an entrepreneur? What aspect of entrepreneurship do you appreciate the most? Share a decision that you made that was detrimental? What is your why?
Story of how it was created?
Eleven years ago, fresh out of college, I felt restless. The traditional 9-to-5 path didn’t appeal to me—I knew I was meant for entrepreneurship. While many wait until their 50s to take the leap, I wanted to dive in early, embracing the inevitable hardships and failures as part of the journey. The dream was to build a business that Erin and I could grow together, integrating it seamlessly into our lives and future family. We envisioned a company that would thrive and leave a legacy, inspiring others to live intentionally.
That vision led me to discover the niche of restroom trailer rentals. The "gross factor" deterred many, but I saw potential in the cyclical, project-based nature of the industry—it fit perfectly with what I wanted to create. Erin was supportive from the start of us knowing each other and helped refine our focus on quality and service, especially for events in Kansas City, Denver and Omaha. Together, we’ve built Stahla Services into a company that reflects our shared values of faith, family, and service, serving clients from Denver to nationwide.
What separates you from your competition?
In the niche industry of restroom and shower trailer rentals, differentiation is key. While many companies buy from the same manufacturers and offer similar trailers, Stahla Services stands out through our maintenance, customer service, and operations team. When we deliver a trailer—whether for a wedding in Omaha or a construction site in Kansas City—it’s 100% mechanically sound, smells fresh, and looks visually appealing. We wax and buff every trailer, ensure the metals are shiny, and keep the toilets clean.
We’ve built a three-tier preventative maintenance program as a core pillar of what we do, ensuring every trailer—from Denver events to nationwide relief efforts—is reliable. The team’s attention to detail has shaped this program, reflecting our commitment to excellence. If you’re an equipment rental company, you know there’s a big difference between those who maintain their gear and those who don’t. At Stahla, we prioritize quality, ensuring our clients and team always get the best.
What have been the biggest challenges?
Running Stahla Services is a daily commitment to excellence, and it comes with weighty responsibilities. As co-owners, Erin and I are constantly ensuring we provide value to customers, care for our employees, and stay financially fit. It’s a consistent, day-in-and-day-out effort to maintain a steady approach, smoothing out the highs and lows to deliver a reliable experience for clients and team members alike.
Erin’s role in shaping our culture is vital—she oversees hiring to ensure our team aligns with our values. During tough times, like an urgent hiring need in Omaha and Denver her steady presence helped keep us on track. Together, we’ve navigated the ups and downs, from serving Kansas City construction projects to expanding nationwide. It’s challenging, but our shared faith and focus on family keep us grounded, ensuring Stahla remains a place of purpose and consistency.
Can you reflect on a goal you set, achieved, and how it made you feel?
For the last two years, our goal has been to make Stahla Services profitable year-round, not just during peak seasons. The cyclical, project-based nature of restroom trailer rentals drew me in initially, but as we grew, shop rent, payroll, and loan payments demanded steadier income. The whole team worked hard to secure consistent business, especially in the slower winter months—think Kansas City construction gigs or Omaha rentals. This past Q1, we hit profitability mid-quarter, a first in 11 years.
The team celebrated this milestone, knowing it was a collective effort. Erin’s strategic thinking played a crucial role, helping us diversify and stay focused. For me, it’s proof that our "thousand BBs" approach—small, consistent wins—works. We’re pumped to dream bigger, from AI integration to nationwide expansion, all while inspiring others to live vibrantly by design.
How have you dealt with being the face of the company?
Part of the reason that we want to own a business and that we want to get into this is that we can impact and inspire other people. We want to internally be thinking about and focused on the things that are actually important for other people, as well as us. Our walk with God, that's number one, our marriage is number two, our marriage is absolutely priority over the business. We talk about business all the time, morning and night, but our marriage comes before the business. Business just happens to be a shared passion..
We talk about prioritizing marriage all the time, we get away, and we do marriage retreats or we do different things that focus on our marriage. And then with our faith, we read the Bible together most mornings,, we're praying together consistently every morning just to set that day up.
What have your learned becoming an entrepreneur?
I love it. I love it. I think it's great. One of the things I talk with people and employees about is, if you're built to be an entrepreneur, then I definitely think you should be an entrepreneur. If you're built to do this, go do it. Go do it sooner than later. Go cut your teeth on a project, on a business, on something. It doesn't have to be your main thing, but go do it. But I think it's great when you have a level of autonomy and authority over a day, then it opens up some of your brain capacity. We have 100% flexibility to control our schedule right now. To be able to logistically and creatively think about solving problems and just think outside the box, inside the box, create a new box. I think is really fun.
How have you grown due to becoming an entrepreneur?
I feel so young, like my wife and I are 32 and 31. I started the business when I was 21 and just to see those people that are out there that have been doing this for 50 years is inspiring. My grandparents had a mobile home business and they still have it after 50 years. It's just impressive thinking about how I've got 10 years of stories of ups and downs already. That was hard. It was really, really hard. Some of those have been the hardest things that I've gone through in my whole life–most recently in the past few years.
It's really tough business stuff. We learn our lessons and we move forward and we don't look in the rear view mirror. One of our leadership team members, Ellen, always says "rip that rear view mirror off because we're not looking behind us, we're looking forward".
The biggest thing is humbly seeing where we're at, we're inexperienced but also we take the lessons that we do have and catalog them, to make sure we don't make the same mistakes and then learn from it
What aspect of entrepreneurship do you appreciate the most?
The sweetest part of entrepreneurship is building Stahla Services with Erin. Her vision for a flexible, family-first business means we can chat with our team in Omaha one minute, duck out for a personal meeting in Kansas City, and still crush our goals. Erin quietly sets the tone. Three years into marriage, we’re still learning, but her knack for blending work and life makes it feel like a shared adventure.
Navigating friction, whether with employees or at home, is amplified in a marriage, but Erin’s grace keeps us growing. From serving Denver clients to dreaming up new ideas, this flexibility feels fulfilling—a holistic picture of what marriage and business can be. We’re excited for the future, knowing we’re building something purposeful together.
Share a decision that you made that was detrimental?
Back in 2020, we had huge growth the year before, we more than doubled the previous year's revenue. After that we were projecting maybe a 50-70 percent growth which seemed conservative but the mistake was growing when I was over-leveraged. We eventually grew into that over the next few years but it was a really dangerous thing to do. We talked to trusted advisors and mentors and no one knew. We didn't know because we were just six or seven years into the business. But it's really dangerous to go out and get more leverage when you don’t have the jobs to support the growth yet. Now we're a lot more solid and we make sure we have the jobs.
What is your why?
Why we're doing this goes far beyond just business success—it’s about honoring God in the way we live. Erin and I recently met with both our marriage and business coaches, seeking clarity on our deeper purpose. As we reflected on what God is calling us to, we kept coming back to this: to inspire and impact vibrant living by design—both in our marriage and in our work.
For us, this means using the gifts God has given us to encourage others to live with intention and fullness. Through the way we structure our lives, we want to reflect His design for purpose-driven, abundant living. Vibrancy, to us, is about seeing and experiencing the beauty of what God has created—whether it's incredible people, breathtaking places, or businesses operating at their best. And living by design means being intentional with our choices, seeking wisdom before making decisions, and ensuring our work serves a greater Kingdom purpose.
This is still something we're prayerfully working through, something we’ll revisit and refine as we continue growing together. But defining it now gives us a foundation to build upon—one that keeps us accountable to the life and business we believe God is calling us to create.
Do you have a moment that brings you the most joy?
We're so excited about being profitable this quarter. This is something that we've been striving towards for 11 years, for over a decade to be profitable in all the quarters and that makes it so that we can do some different things. We can continue to grow. We can continue to make our customers' lives better. Our team’s lives are better. Erin and my life is better just by making it so that we're not losing money in the season, but consistently (at least) breaking even and then making money in all seasons.
It opens the door and I'm definitely thinking about possibilities.
Erin and I like to dream and so it allows us to do a lot of fun stuff in a profitable way. We’re not getting to dream and think about incorporating AI into our expanding business
Where and how to find you?
If you're in need of a restroom or shower trailers, we've got you covered. Whether you're looking to rent for a short-term event or purchase a used trailer, you can find everything on our website at stahla.com.
We specialize in all things specialty trailers, serving customers nationwide—from New York to California to Texas. Planning a wedding, festival, or large-scale event? Reach out! Even if we don’t have exactly what you need, our deep industry connections ensure we can connect you with the right vendor.
For large-scale operations—whether it’s a military exercise, a major distribution center remodel, or a meatpacking facility upgrading its locker rooms—we handle the logistics. Need towable generators, fuel and water delivery, tank pump-outs, or daily cleaning services? We do it all.
Whatever your trailer needs, Stahla Services is here to help. Let’s make it happen.
Piece of Advice
Back to what I was saying about purpose, get your purpose statement. It doesn't have to be perfect, but think through the number one thing. Think about what your big hairy audacious goal is, that's Jim Collins book, Good to Great. He introduced a big hairy audacious goal.
Think about what's the biggest goal that you can only hit 50% of the time. It's something that you dream of being in that situation or doing. Think about your core values, what do people say about you? What do they say that you're always doing or when you're in flow state when you're working? What are you working on? What are your favorite things? Then just think about your core values. What's the most important thing to you? What do you most admire about other people?
This will help highlight your core values and show how they overlap. From there, you can refine it into a clear, concise purpose statement—the shorter, the better. Revisit it annually and ask yourself: Does this still align with who I am and who I’m becoming?
In Closing
KLS wants to thank Stahla Services and Co-Founder, Grant Stahla, for today's "Together Talks" feature. Follow along for their journey with their social handles below!
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