Canada Big Truck Sales Down 1.8% in May

Big-truck deliveries in Canada were down 1.8% on a daily sales basis in May with 3,797 units sold, compared with 4,190 from prior-year.

Sales in Class 8 fell 4.1% to 2,342 units. Daimler’s Freightliner and Western Star were only the brands above year-ago, up 34.0% and 34.7% respectively. The remaining truck makers posted double-digit declines. Over the first five months of this year, heavy-truck sales were 21.8% below like-2015.

Medium-duty orders came to 1,455 units, 2.2% greater than year-ago. Year-to-date, sales were up 1.0%.

Class 7 sales totaled 331 units, dropping 27.0%. Class leader International slipped 16.3% to 112 units. Freightliner (-37.4), Kenworth (-69.4%) and Peterbilt (57.2%) posted much sharper declines. Hino gained 60.6%, increasing class share from 11.4% to 25.1% in May.

Class 6 orders rose 2.1% to 115 units. International lost 89.2% of sales, while Freightliner showed a 38.9% decline. However, Hino (+71.7%) and Ford (+369.4%) helped outweigh the downward pull.

Deliveries in Class 5 rose 10.1% to 814 units. Share leader Ford saw sales fall 26.1%, but FCA posted an 8.8% increase and Hino gained 27.5%. Isuzu and Freightliner saw big gains in the segment, too.

Class 4 was the best-performing segment in May, as deliveries surged 63.8% to 195 units vs. 129 year-ago. Ford sold 87 units with an 8.3% gain from like-2015. Isuzu showed major success with 658.3% growth in its domestic lineup and a 170.8% increase in imported models. Mitsubishi Fuso saw the only year-over-year decline in the group.

Year-to-date, medium-and heavy-truck deliveries totaled 15,732 units, 14.3% less than the same period in 2015.

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