Canada Big-Truck Sales Down 8.7% in August

Canada’s big-truck sales fell in August, as combined medium- and heavy-duty deliveries dropped 8.7% from year-ago.

Class 8 sales declined 14.4% to 1,810 units. The January-August tally came to 15,124 deliveries, 22.5% behind like-2015. Daimler was the only company to outsell last year, with a 0.5% downtick from Freightliner outweighed by a 28.8% gain by Western Star. International dropped 46.9%. PACCAR’s Kenworth and Peterbilt were down 9.7% and 15.1%, respectively. Mack (-14.6%) and Volvo (-22.3%) brought their parent company down 19.9%.

Medium-duty trucks came in 4.1% above prior-year with 971 units. The August figure brought the year-to-date total to 9,245, 3.1% less than like-2015.

Class 7 saw strong growth, rising 31.2% to 446 orders. Group leader International posted a 102.3% gain to 263 units. Freightliner slipped 11.0% and Hino lost 4.1% of sales.

Class 6 deliveries totaled 64 units, 11.1% below prior-year. Hino’s sales rose 28.6% and its share was able to shoot up to 70.3% due to a 90.0% decline from International.

Sales of Class 5 vehicles decreased 14.7% from last year on sales of 354 units in August. Ford’s deliveries fell 22.0%. FCA and Hino posted smaller declines of 4.5% and 8.6%, respectively.

Class 4 sales rose 0.9% to 107 units. Ford slipped 12.5%. Isuzu’s domestic line rose 72.7% and its imports gained 28.6%. Hino was down 28.6%.

Over the first eight months of 2016, medium- and heavy-duty truck sales totaled 24,369 units, 16.1% fewer than the same period in 2015.

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