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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Brazil - Mercedes-Benz beats sales record of heavy trucks
São Bernardo Do Campo,SP,Brazil/Stuttgart,Germany -AutoMobiles Review -June 5, 2008: -- Mercedes-Benz has just reached a historical monthly sales record of heavy trucks in the Brazilian truck market. In May, the brand sold 1,010 units of these vehicles and reached a new sales record of heavy trucks... Accumulated from January to May of this year, Mercedes-Benz registered sales of more than 4,300 heavy trucks, which is a 52% growth compared to the same period of last year. The brand, thus, maintains the leadership in the heavy market, with an approximate 27,5 % market share, confirming the position conquered in 2007... Axor 2540, the best-selling heavy truck in the country... Mercedes-Benz has today the best-selling heavy truck in the Brazilian market, the Axor 2540. From January to May of this year, approximately 1,450 units of this model were sold, confirming its wide acceptance by customers...UK - Highlighted as major growth market for Iveco
London,UK -Easier/Motoring -3 June 2008: -- Iveco has reduced lead times for its Stralis and Trakker products to six months, as part of its strategy to increase the company’s share of the heavy truck market to 15 per cent by 2011... The additional product availability comes at a time when Iveco has already recorded a 61 per cent increase in its heavy truck order intake in the UK between January and May 2008, compared with figures for the same period last year... The advantage of shorter lead times is designed to bring further benefits to operators by enabling them to ensure that any orders placed between now and early next year can be registered ahead of the 30 September 2009 Reduced Pollution Certificate (RPC) deadline... This enables vehicle owners to receive a discount of £500 per year in Vehicle Excise Duty, for the duration of the vehicle’s life...* India - Trucks Makers' Raising capacity
Mumbai,India -BBC (UK), by Neil Heathcote -5 June 2008: -- This feeling of gloom is felt across many parts of industry... The latest survey from the Confederation of Indian Industry shows business confidence has fallen about 9% compared with the previous six months... All the more surprising, then, that the companies that make trucks are rapidly expanding their production here... A string of international firms have set up joint ventures to get into the Indian market... Last week Volvo and Nissan both announced new subsidiaries, in partnership with Eicher Motors and Ashok Leyland respectively... Not to be left out, local companies such as Tata Motors have announced ambitious expansion plans of their own... In all, the industry is spending more than $3bn (£1.5bn) over the next two years to increase production and raise capacity... "You have to take some long term decisions" said Tata's head of commercial vehicles, Prakash Telang... "While there are some corrections happening in the marketplace in the short run, we're quite buoyant about the long-term view of the country. We want to have our capacities ready when the market wants it."... He points to the rising need for transport as the cities grow, and at the substantial government investment aimed improving the roads around the country. Tata also has its eye on the overseas market. It wants to turn India into a production hub, providing trucks for developing economies from Russia and Africa to South East Asia... But when will demand in India itself start to pick up again?... "It's difficult to answer this question," says Prakash Telang, "but it's not going to be soon."... (Picture: India's road to prosperity is far from smooth) Labels: truckmakers news UK
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