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December’s headlong plunge in the UK’s heavy truck market drags down the rest of Europe. Despite December’s sales dip, due chiefly to a statistical blip, last year’s third successive annual sales gain suggests that West Europe’s long-lingering truck sales famine is finally over
Sales of heavy trucks in Western Europe dropped 5.9 per cent in December from the same month last year, according to data compiled by
Acea.
But it was not because truck operators were holding back to see whether the high consumer demand seen of late in much of continental Europe was holding up.
December’s comparatively strong decline could easily be attributable to between one and two fewer working days in the month than in December 2016.
The latest dive brings last year’s West Europe’s cumulative heavy truck sales total to 244,706, up by a modest 1.4 per cent for the year.
Last year’s turnout also stands out as the best heavy truck sales year since 2008.
December’s sales turnout, echoing to an extent the same month performance of the region’s passenger car market, fell well short of year earlier levels in just over half the region’s markets.
Nevertheless, despite December’s working day handicap, a higher than earlier expected eight markets saw improved December sales.
A reflection of the underlying health of Europe’s heavy truck market, December sales were higher in two of the region’s five major
markets.
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