Year-to-date deliveries grew 10.8% in October, compared with year-ago, to 176,530
New York,NY,USA -WardsAuto.com, by Byron Pope -Nov 11, 2010: -- U.S. sales of medium- and heavy-duty trucks in October continued their momentum from last month with a 5.2% gain on like-2009 to 18,522 units... Class 5 led the pack, with sales soaring 55.0%, while Class 6 and 7 saw slight increases of 0.1% and 5.0%, respectively. Class 4 made a dismal showing in the month, with deliveries tumbling 58.5%... While most Class 5 manufacturers showed gains, the largest came from International Truck and Engine Corp., up 139.2%. Volume-leader Ford Motor Co. followed with a 133.6% year-over-year increase... Ford led Class 6, with sales surging 115.3% to 602, compared with like-2009. Volume-leader International, however, posted a 37.5% decline to 710 units... International dominated Class 7 in volume, with deliveries up 14.2% to 2,000 units. Daimler AG’s Mitsubishi Fuso brand saw the largest percentage gain, up 211.1% from prior year, but on a meager 3 units. Daimler’s total Class 7 sales in October, including the Freightliner, Mitsubishi Fuso and Sterling brands, slipped 2.3% from year-ago to 1,116 units... Total medium-duty deliveries in the month grew 4.9%, compared with like-2009, to 9,861... Sales of heavy-duty Class 8 trucks climbed 6.3% in the month, largely on the back of Daimler’s Freightliner brand’s 49.8% spike to 3,128 units...
* Canada - Big-Truck Market Continues Hot Streak in October
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -WardsAuto, by James M. Amend -Nov 11, 2010: -- Canada’s big-truck sales climbed 29.2% in October to 2,763 units, marking the seventh straight month of year-over-year increases... Class 8 sales continued to fuel the streak, soaring 49.5% last month, compared with year-ago’s 1,920 units, according to Ward’s data. Segment leader PACCAR Inc. built more momentum in the month, with sales increasing 23.7% to 487 units... However, Daimler Trucks North America LLC posted the biggest gain in the segment, as deliveries nearly doubled over like-2009 to 718 units. Volvo Trucks North America witnessed a surge in demand, as well, with deliveries also nearly doubling to 306 units... Every truck maker and brand in the Class 8 segment saw sales rise in October, compared with prior-year, and through the first 10 months were ahead like-2009 by 39.2% to 15,355 sales... Medium-duty sales fell 1.2% to 843 deliveries, but stayed ahead of the segment’s 6.2% decline to 8,080 units through October... Class 7 sales experienced the steepest fall last month, plunging 18.5% to 234 units... Daimler posted one of the segment’s only gains in October, as sales jumped to 60 units over a modest 12 deliveries year-ago. Its Freightliner brand takes credit for the increase... Hino Motor Mfg. U.S.A. Inc. nearly matched year-ago’s total, delivering 27 units last month, compared with 26 in like-2009... Class 6 sales improved 28.5% to 193 units in October, and Class 5 gained 8.2% to 299. Class 4 sales fell 16.2% to 117...
* USA - Heavy Truck Production Forecast to Double. OEMs will build more than 300,000 Class 8s in 2012, ACT predicts
New York,NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Nov 11, 2010: -- The economy may be slowing, but truck demand is picking up, and will double by 2013, according to ACT Research... The commercial vehicle research firm expects truck makers to roll out 151,000 Class 8 trucks this year. That's a 27 percent increase over truck production in 2009, one of the worst years on record for truck manufacturers and their customers... In 2012 that number should exceed 300,000, ACT Research predicts... Older trucks are being replaced and the price of used trucks has climbed, making it easier to sell new vehicles. The average age of a Class 8 tractor is now 6.7 years, which means owners will soon have to replace or retire them... Current production and sales are still below normal replacement demand, however, indicating truck capacity will remain tight in 2011...
* Canada - Peterbilt scores order for 180 LNG-powered trucks
Mississauga,ONT,CAN -Fleet Owner -Nov 9, 2010: -- Indicative of the rising prominence of liquefied natural gas (LNG) engines in heavy-duty Class 8 trucks, Robert Transport has ordered 180 LNG-powered trucks from Peterbilt Motors Co... The trucks, Model 386 and Model 367 Petes, are powered by the Westport HD system, which includes a GX 15-liter engine, Westport fuel injectors, LNG fuel tanks with integrated cryogenic fuel pumps, and related electrical components. The LNG engine has been approved by both the U.S. EPA and California’s Air Resources Board as meeting 2010 federal emissions levels... (Photo from t3.gstatic: A Peterbilt truck model 386)
* Holland - Four axle DAF offers flexibility
Eindhoven,Noord-Brabant,The Netherlands -HGV UK -November 9, 2010: -- Considerable flexibility in the use of a new DAF that recently entered service with Fife company Robert Purvis Plant Hire Limited has come from the ability to alter the body from a beavertail to a full flatbed and by fitting a high capacity crane... The four-axle configuration of the FAD CF85 adds further flexibility because it ensures an inherently stable platform for the transport of plant and equipment and its twin steering axles provide excellent manoeuvrability – especially useful at sites with restricted access. Good off-road capability also comes from the specification of the heavy-duty, dual-drive DAF HR1355T bogie with hub reduction axles that incorporate cross and inter-axle diff locks... Much of the DAF’s work involves the movement of portable site buildings for the Purvis Group’s Thistle Accommodation subsidiary. For this purpose the four foot long beavertail section can be hydraulically raised to create a continuous flat deck of 26 feet. In this position the rear ‘cheese wedge’ ramps are folded down flat to allow a rear overhang... (Photo from encamion: DAF truck model CF85 FAD 8x4)
* UK - Lomas chooses Mercedes-Benz
Buxton, Derbyshire,UK -HGV UK -November 11, 2010: -- Mercedes-Benz has clinched a breakthrough deal for 24 premium specification Actros tractor units with leading bulk powder and liquids haulier Lomas Distribution... The high-profile operator, placed its first significant order for Mercedes-Benz trucks... Lomas Distribution has bought 10 Mercedes-Benz Actros 2455s with 550hp V8 engines and flat-floored MegaSpace cabs, and 14 Actros 2448s with 480hp V6s and Long Distance sleeper cabs... The more powerful units have been specified for long haul continental duties. Pulling bulk tank trailers with ‘donkey engine’ packs, they are being used primarily to collect lime and cementitious materials from Germany and Italy. The V6-engined vehicles, meanwhile, are equipped with PTOs for tipper/blower operation and work with bulk tipping and walking floor trailers... Lomas Distribution runs 160 trucks – all but three of them 44-tonne tractor units – and some 200 trailers, the majority of them bulk tankers, which it uses to supply customers in the construction and chemical industries... (Photo from hgvuk: Actros Lomas')
* UK - Leeds Commercial adds 52 MAN trucks to fleet
Leeds,EN,UK -Leeds Commercial Vehicle Hire, by Kevin Swallow -9 November 2010: -- Leeds Commercial Vehicle Hire has bought 20 new MAN trucks and ordered another 32 vehicles as it expands its rental fleet. It has taken delivery of 10 TGX 26.440 6x2 tractors and 10 TGL 7.5-tonne box-vans, and ordered another 20 6x2 tractors, as well as 10 TGS 35.360 8x4s and two TGM 26.290 6x2 rigids with Palfinger cranes. Chris Miller, director at Leeds Commercial Vehicle Hire, says a significant factor in choosing MAN is because it doesn't need AdBlue... The company runs a 1,500 mixed-fleet from vans to tractor units, which operate out of Barnsley, Bradford, Leeds, Manchester and Sherburn-in-Elmet. Leeds Commercial offers spot hire, short-term rental, municipal and council contracts, and it maintains its own fleet in-house... (Photo from truckwallpapers: MAN truck TGX model)
* UK - Argos improves payload with Isuzu trucks and Bevan bodies
Acton Gate,Stafford,UK -Road Transpsort, by Kevin Swallow -9 November 2010: -- Argos has bought 25 new Isuzu 7.5-tonne trucks and 100 aerodynamic demountable boxes from the Bevan Group, which improve payload by 500kg when combined... The Isuzu N75 Forward trucks, are the first on the Argos fleet... The aerodynamic Bevan21 boxes have light-weight panels, plastic tie rails, and pre-coloured and powder-coated extrusions and fixings to reduce the standing weight of the boxes by more than 200kg... The deal for the Bevan21 truck body follows a two-year trial that has established a 4.5% fuel saving... (Photo from roadtransport: Argos' Isuzu truck)Labels: truck sales
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