Truck Sales

Partnership aims to boost LNG adoption in heavy-duty trucking, develop key freight corridors, and promote sustainable long-haul transport across India

'Seasonal fruits, including mangoes, kept some hubs busy. While there was a decline in truck rental, the fleet occupancy remained around 70 per cent'

The German firm aims for its new trucks and buses to be carbon-neutral in Europe, Japan, and the USA by 2039, and globally by 2050

For the first time since Covid outbreak, revenue of the operators is outpacing income and prompting them not only to replace older trucks but also expand fleet

Domestic medium and heavy commercial vehicle (M&HCV) sales were up 132 per cent at 3,473 units

Rebound in oil and gas vertical, passenger vehicle volume growth are other triggers

In a Q&A, Anuj Kathuria dwells on the segment shift towards intermediate commercial vehicles (ICVs) and tippers

Light and small trucks leading sequential resurgence

Company's Light commercial Vehicle (LCV) sales grew by 20 per cent to 4,567 units from 3,816 units

Balance-sheet squeeze makes purchase of trucks impractical, they say

Daimler India is taking on rivals Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland with its BS-VI line of vehicles

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The biggest drop was in trucks, whose sales declined by 59 per cent to 3,335 units in October from 8,124 units in the same month a year ago

Sales of Mahindra's heavy trucks dropped to 3,427 units in the eight months from April to September

Volumes during August were dragged down by the top two manufacturers, which together sell more than seven in every 10 trucks

Combined sales at top four manufacturers - Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles, and Mahindra and Mahindra - dropped 20 per cent to 20,324 units in November

Mumbai, 2 AprilTruck and bus sales in India rose at a brisk pace in the financial year that ended March 31, with most companies in the sector reporting record sales volumes. A pick-up in infrastructure projects, overload bans in some key states and easy financing fuelled the demand. Cumulative commercial vehicle (CV) sales of the top four manufacturers rose 20.6 per cent to 856,000 units during 2017-18 over a year before, according to monthly sales data released by the companies on Monday, barring Bharat Benz, the truck brand of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles -- it does not share monthly or yearly sales data.Order flow at listed capital goods and construction companies, one of the primary users of CVs, rose sharply in FY18, according to the data compiled by the Business Standard Research Bureau. Orders from here rose 69 per cent during the year to about Rs 2.8 trillion.Most manufacturers saw record sales. The strong performance of medium and heavy duty trucks, biggest ...

Estimates exports to reach 160,000 vehicles by 2019-20

Truck sales are expected to decline in 2017-18 on a slowdown in replacement demand