The latest March truck sales data released by the Truck Industry Council (TIC) indicate marginal growth across all truck segments.
According to TIC figures, the heavy-duty sector continued on its long slow crawl back with 795 new registrations in March, following 671 in February and 438 in January.
The quarterly result of 1904 is 6% down on 2015’s first quarter result, but the trend over the last couple of months is positive at least – with a number of manufacturers indicating that their order books continue to fill at a faster rate than last year.
In the overall market, Isuzu had a great month with 664 new units taking its first quarter result to 1673, which is 30.7% of the total truck result. Put another way, almost one new truck in three sold so far during 2016 is an Isuzu.
Meanwhile, Freightliner is bouncing back from a disappointing 2015 (692 trucks for the year – down 17.9% on 2014) with 135 new units year to date – 22.7% up on last year’s first quarter.
In the van sector, Mercedes-Benz took the lead back from Renault in March despite the French manufacturer posting a year to date increase of 80% with its 403 units during Q1.
On the big stage, the van sector shows no sign of cooling with 1320 sales for the quarter, which is a healthy 8.7% increase over the 2015 March quarter results.
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