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West Europe’s March sales of heavy trucks in the 16t and above weight category dropped 5.5 per cent. Significantly, the region’s truck market, echoing the picture already seen in the March car market, was expected to suffer a notable setback because of last month's loss of between one and two working days
As March had fewer working days than last year, West Europe’s registrations of heavy trucks showed a 5.5 per cent fall last month, narrowing this year’s first quarter truck sales gain for the sector to just under 1 percentage point, according to Acea sales numbers.
Germany, the region’s biggest market for trucks and where March had two fewer working days, March heavy truck sales fell 10.5 per cent, thus creating a sales shortfall of 6.4 per cent for this year’s first quarter.
The fallout from a notably shorter working month also made its negative mark on the vast majority of the region’s truck markets.
Of the 18 West European markets usually tracked by AID, only Belgium and France recorded a sales gain in March.
All the remaining 16 market saw sales fall by between 2.8 per cent in the Netherlands and 43.2 per cent in Luxembourg.
Apart from France all the region’s remaining major markets failed to match last year’s March sales, Acea figures show.
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