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TRUCKS SALES * USA & Canada
* USA - More Gains in June for Big-Truck Sellers
New York,NY,USA -WardsAuto.com, by James M. Amend -Jul 15, 2010: -- U.S. sales of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in June kept the string of double-digit increases intact in the year’s first half with a 10.3% gain on like-2009... Medium-duty sales in June rose 9.7% to 10,356 units from 9,443 year-ago. Through the year’s first half, medium-duty deliveries were up 6.6% to 54,877 from 51,464, compared with prior-year.
- Class 4 sales slipped 24.4% to 1,364 from 1,805 in like-2009. Ford posted the greatest decline, slipping 79.3% to 194 from 939.
- Class 5 June sales rose 12.7% to 2,613 units from 2,318 year-ago. Ford Motor Co. witnessed the biggest increase with 1,547 deliveries, up 47.6% from year-ago’s 1,048.
- Class 6 accounted for took the lion’s share of the increase, with June sales surging 77.1% to 3,070 units from 1,733 year-ago. International Truck & Engine Corp. provided the biggest push, with deliveries last month climbing 75.7% to 1,536 from 874 in like-2009. Daimler AG’s, Freightliner brand sales tripled to 643 units from 212, sending the truck maker’s total deliveries in Class 6 up 174.2% to 743 from 271.
- Class 7 saw a 7.8% drop to 3,309 from 3,587 units in June, as nearly every truck maker in the segment suffered losses. International led the decline, with sales down 10.5% to 1,185 from 1,324 in like-2009. Daimler’s 16.8% gain to 1,311 from 1,122 deliveries could not offset across-the-board weakness.
- Class 8 June sales rose 11.1% to 8,896 units from 8,006 in like-2009. Daimler led the heavy-duty segment, with deliveries climbing 29% to 2,920 units, from 2,264 year-ago. Its Freightliner brand was the best-selling nameplate in the class, posting an increase of 37.4% to 2,658 from 1,934. International sold 2,884 units in Class 8 for June, up 4.8% from prior-year’s 2,752.
* Canada - Big-truck sales to a third consecutive year-over-year gain in June
New York,NY,USA -WardsAuto.com, by Eric Mayne -Jul 16, 2010: -- Medium- and heavy-duty truck deliveries for the month totaled 2,544 units for a 25.8% increase over like-2009, according to Ward’s data...
- Class 4 sales jumped 32.3%
- Class 5 was the only segment in negative sales territory. Its 396 delivery tally for June fell 17.4% short of prior-year, which held all medium-duty classes to a collective 5.5% gain.
- Class 6 increase of 33.1%.
- Class 7 saw and 22.7%, increase.
- Class 8 deliveries provided the market’s biggest boost in June, a 44.5% hike over like-2009.
Ford enjoyed increases of 71.5% and 52.2% in Class 4 and Class 5, respectively. Through the year’s first half, the blue-oval brand was the volume leader in each category... And International showed why it was the 2010 volume king through June in Classes 6, 7 and 8. In those segments, the truck maker recorded respective sales hikes last month of 41.2%, 82.4% and 29.3%, compared with prior-year...
* USA - Driver-training school buys 22 Freightliners, Great Dane trailers
Bordentown,NJ,USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 21, 2010: -- Driver-training school Smith & Solomon Commercial Driver Training has purchased 22 Freightliner Columbia tractors and Great Dane dry freight trailers for its training programs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware... The new fleet will replace vehicles currently used for driver training. The tractors feature Detroit Diesel engines with 10-sp. Eaton manual transmissions. The engines are equipped with exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and are programmed to shut down after two minutes of idling... (Photo from publiquip:Freightliners Columbia)
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