U.S. Heavy Truck Sales up Year-over-year in March

The following graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the March 2018 seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR). Heavy truck sales really collapsed during the great recession, falling to a low of 181 thousand in April and May 2009, on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis (SAAR). Then sales increased more than 2 1/2 times, and hit 480 thousand SAAR in June 2015. Heavy truck sales declined again - probably mostly due to the weakness in the oil sector - and bottomed at 364 thousand SAAR in October 2016. Click on graph for larger image.......(read more)

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