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TRUCKS SALES * USA
* Michigan - Heavy-Duty Truck Sales Rise 36% in May
Detroit,MICH,USA -Transport Topics -13 June 2012: -- Heavy-duty U.S. truck sales climbed 36% in May to 18,012 from the same month of last year, continuing a stretch of 29 consecutive gains... Information from WardsAuto.com, which reported the latest sales on Wednesday, showed increases for all seven nameplates, compared with Class 8 sales that totaled 13,290 last May... Daimler Trucks North America’s Freightliner brand topped the list with 5,529 sold. Paccar Inc.’s, Kenworth and Peterbilt Class 8 tractor sales totaled 5,290, about equally divided between the brands... Navistar sales totaled 3,337. Volvo Group reached a total of 3,642 that included 1,524 Mack models...
* Indiana - Time to cut Class 8 production
Bloomington,IN,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Jun. 15, 2012: -- Class 8 production levels are now running way ahead of market demand, according to new analysis by FTR Associates, thus OEMs need to start throttling their factories back or run the risk of creating too much inventory... Right now, Jonathan Starks, FTR’s director if transportation analysis, noted that there’s a 13% variance the number of Class 8 units OEMs plan to build in the third quarter this year versus what FTR predicts will actually be purchased – meaning OEM Class 8 production levels are 10,000 units higher than they should be, he warned... That “variance” will only grow larger by year’s end, as FTR now projects market demand will only sustain annual Class 8 production volume of 263,000 units in 2012, dropping to 236,000 units in 2013...
* NY - Truck sales score smallest gain of year
New York,NY,USA -Fleet Owner -Jun. 14, 2012: -- Through May, U.S. medium- and heavy-duty deliveries are up 29.1% compared to a year ago... Sales of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. were up 16.7% in May— marking the smallest sales bump of the year when compared with like-2011 numbers, according to a news story posted on WardsAuto.com... While the May numbers “paled in comparison” with April’s 38.9% sales jump, WardsAuto noted that through May, medium- and heavy-duty truck deliveries were up 29.1% to 143,393 units, when compared with the prior-year’ figure of 111,061...
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