FTR: Mixed forecast for truck and trailer production

Production projected to trend down for 2017, though recoveries expected for both segments by 2018.
Class 8, medium-duty, and trailer production rates are all expected to be knocked lower this year and next, according to analysis issued by research firm FTR during its annual transportation conference in Indianapolis this week.
However, by 2018, production rates for all of them are expected to start recovering, the firm’s experts said.
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