DTNA chief sees slow U.S. truck sales through mid 2017
Overall U.S. retail Class 8 sales will end the year 26% below 2015.
LAS VEGAS. Calling the current downturn in U.S. Class 8 truck sales “a bit unexpected,” Martin Daum, president and CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, now expects those slow sales to continue through the first half of 2017. And while he believes sales will pick up in the second half, “they won’t be enough to offset the first half, so we’re seeing 2017 as off slightly from this year,” he said at a press conference during the American Trucking Assns.’ annual management conference.
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