ACT Research: When Change Comes, It Is Likely to Come Fast According to ACT Research’s (ACT) latest release of the North American Commercial Vehicle OUTLOOK, current Class 8 build rates suggest upside to the 2019 forecast, but large new truck inventories and deteriorating freight and rate conditions suggest erring on the side of caution remains [...]
ACT Research: US Trailer Orders Are Easing, While Production Remains Robust According to this quarter’s issue of ACT Research’s Trailer Components Report, trailer industry net orders have eased meaningfully since November of 2018, as year-over-year-comparisons have now been in the red for the last five months, but order weakness is not indicative of fleets’ unwillingness [...]
ACT Research: U.S. Trailer Orders Continued to Drop in April, Down 23% Y/Y and 30% YTD New US trailer orders of 18.6k were up 4% month-over-month, but after accounting for cancellations, net orders slid to 14.7k units, down 6% from March. Year-to-date, net orders are 37% below last year, according to this month’s issue of [...]
ACT Research: While Class 8 Measures Are at Cycle Highs, Trailer Orders Are Weak According to ACT Research’s recently released Transportation Digest, Class 8 retail sales and build remain at cycle highs, but signs are multiplying that the market momentum will start declining during the second half of this year. At the same time, net [...]
ACT Research: April 2019 Trailer Industry Preliminary Net Orders Down 7% from March and 38% Below Last Year; Volume of 14,500 Units Lowest Since July 2017 ACT’s preliminary estimate for April 2019 net trailer orders is 14,500 units. Final volume will be available later this month. Our methodology allows us to generate a preliminary estimate [...]
ACT’s preliminary estimate for February 2019 net trailer orders is 23,800 units. Final volume will be available later this month. Our methodology allows us to generate a preliminary estimate of the market that should be within +/- 3% of the final order tally. Source: HubSpot Blog Import
COLUMBUS, IN – ACT Research Co., LLC, announces a 2017 update to its Global Trailer Market Analysis & Forecast white paper. The 40+ page paper and a supporting user-friendly index and graph package provides analyses, data, insights and forecasts for the major trailer markets in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America and other markets, [...]
