Economic News

In normal times, pricing trends in the retail market usually lag the auction market by roughly 3-5 months. In our current environment, trucks in both channels...

April is the first full month in which sales activity took place entirely during the economic shutdown, so we’re eager to look at how the market...

April was the first month in which buying and selling took place entirely under the economic shutdown, so we were very curious to see how volume...

At the auctions we track, volume was down across the board, and pricing was mixed. Starting with Class 3 – 4 cabovers, a newer mix of...

Retail pricing continues to outperform auction, and that gap has widened. We expected to see pricing fall more notably in April, following the auction channel. This...

Volume was down considerably in May, which made analysis difficult and resulted in averages that are not necessarily representative of market conditions. A more complete analysis...

Dealers retailed an average of 3.9 trucks per rooftop in May, 0.5 truck higher than April, and identical to last May. This increase is encouraging, and...

Volume rose substantially in June, and was in fact the highest we’ve seen for our benchmark group since at least late 2015. Pricing was fairly solid...

Retail volume was way up in June. Depreciation accelerated moderately as a result. The average sleeper tractor retailed in June was 68 months old, had 478,296...

Average pricing for almost all model years of the benchmark model we track was stronger in July. Volume was back down to a typical level after...