Canada Class 4-8 Sales Down Again in October

With 2,867 units delivered in October, Canada’s medium- and heavy-duty deliveries declined again in October, falling 17.4% from year-ago.

Class 8 sales were off 18.9% from year-ago on 1,979 deliveries. PACCAR was the only truck maker up, with a 12.2% increase from prior-year. Daimler (-33.9%) and Volvo (-28.9%) had double-digit losses. International fell 6.4%.

Class 7 totaled 307 deliveries, a 9.2% drop. PACCAR’s Kenworth was up 8% from year-ago but Peterbilt undersold like-2015 with only 11 deliveries, dropping 54.3%. Ford (29.6%) and Hino (36.2%) outsold prior-year, but Freightliner came in low with only 41 deliveries, a 47.9% drop.

Class 6 was down 28% on 74 deliveries. Ford rose 44% from year-ago with four sold. Freightliner’s total was down 69.1%, and International’s results fell 29.1%. Hino dropped only 0.1% on 37 deliveries.

Class 5 dropped 9.1% from like-2015 primarily from the 17.5% decline in domestic sales. Daimler (8%) and Hino (49.3%) were the only two to have increases from prior-year. International had the largest drop of 69.1% with only four deliveries. Ford and Isuzu also were also down by 24.9% and 21.1%, respectively.

For the second straight month, Class 4 took the hardest fall, down 31.9% from last year to 87 units. Imports were up 3.3%, but domestics fell a dramatic 39%. Hino’s import line rose 116% to 10 units. The largest decline was posted by Ford with a 43.1% decrease.

Year-to-date through October, medium- and heavy-duty truck sales were down 18.2% from like-2015, totaling 30,653 units.

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