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U.S. Class 8 retail sales in June fell 43.5% year-over-year to just above 13,000, WardsAuto.com reported, as the nation worked to reopen businesses while cases of COVID-19 climbed.
Sales reached 13,276 compared with 23,500 a year earlier. All truck makers posted double-digit declines compared with the 2019 period.
The year-over-year declines ranged from a low of 21.6% at Western Star, a brand of Daimler Trucks North America, to the steepest decline, 51.9%, at Peterbilt Motors Co., a unit of Paccar Inc.
Freightliner, also a brand of DTNA, remained the market leader with 4,732 sales, good for a 35.6% share. Sales dropped 42.4% compared with 8,215 a year earlier.
At the same time, June’s volume rebounded from sales in May that fell 62.5% to 9,165, the lowest number since February 2011.
Year-to-date sales sank 38.7% to 82,648 compared with 134,832 a year earlier.
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