Commercial Vehicle State of the Industry Reports
Monthly market indicator reports for commercial vehicles, trailers, and used trucks.
ACT Research’s State of the Industry reports provide monthly market indicators and analyst context across commercial vehicles, trailers, and used truck markets. These reports help customers monitor current market conditions, track order and production activity, evaluate inventory and backlog trends, and understand the signals shaping the commercial vehicle and equipment cycle.
Everything starts with market indicator data.
Market indicator data is the monthly data ACT receives directly from truck, tractor, and trailer original equipment manufacturers. This data helps ACT evaluate the current health, direction, and cycle position of the commercial vehicle and equipment markets.
North American truck manufacturers provide ACT with indicators covering Classes 5–8 vehicles. ACT aggregates and analyzes this data to help customers understand order activity, production, inventory, backlog, retail sales, cancellations, and other key market signals.
Trailer manufacturers also provide ACT with indicators across 16 trailer types, including dry vans, flatbeds, and refrigerated vans. This segment-level view helps customers understand trailer demand, production timing, inventory conditions, and equipment-cycle movement.
Whether your team works in manufacturing, supply chain, fleet planning, leasing, finance, investment, or dealer operations, ACT’s State of the Industry reports help turn current market data into clearer planning context.
Monthly market indicators with historical context
Truck, tractor, and trailer OEMs have shared market indicator data with ACT Research since 1986. That gives ACT a first-hand view of current market conditions as well as the historical cycles, participants, and patterns that shape the transportation equipment market.
State of the Industry reports are built from actual production, sales, order, backlog, and inventory data — not registration data — giving customers a clearer view of vehicles and trailers as they are ordered, built, sold, and tracked through the market.
Each State of the Industry report includes raw data in Excel along with ACT analysis and presentation-ready materials.
- Executive summary and current market review
- Rolling six-month industry build plan
- Backlog timing analysis
- Presentation-ready graph pack
- Previous month preliminary net orders
- Data files in Excel
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North America Classes 5–8 Vehicles
Monthly market indicators for North American Class 5–8 vehicles, including production, sales, inventory, orders, backlog, and cancellation activity.
NA OEM Classes 5–8 Build & Retail Sales
OEM-level build and retail sales data to help customers monitor production output, sales activity, and market performance across commercial vehicle classes.
NA Classes 5–8 Vehicles by Country
Country-level market indicators for Classes 5–8 vehicles across North America to support regional demand, production, and sales analysis.
NA Classes 5-7 Bus Market
Monthly market indicators for the North American Classes 5–7 bus market, supporting demand, production, and segment-level planning.
U.S. Used Trucks Classes 3-8
Monthly used truck market intelligence covering sales, pricing, inventory, age, and mileage trends across Classes 3–8.
U.S. Trailers
Monthly U.S. trailer market indicators covering production, shipments, orders, backlog, inventory, cancellations, and segment-level activity.
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ACT can help you identify the monthly market report, data resource, or analyst perspective that fits your planning needs — whether you are monitoring commercial vehicle demand, production, inventory, used truck values, trailer activity, or market-cycle risk.