Class 8 Sales Plunged in September

October 25, 2000 8:50 AM, EDT

Sales of class 8 trucks stopped slumping in September — and fell right off the edge of the table — with a monthly total 38.6% below September 1999, the largest month-to-month drop so far this year.

Truck manufacturers sold 13,768 class 8 trucks in September, vs. 22,421 in September 1999.

On a year-to-date basis, the drop was also the largest so far in 2000, with sales of 170,057 trailing the 193,516 sold in the first nine months of 1999 by 12.1%.

“This comes as no surprise,” said Roy Wiley, director of public relations at International Truck company, based in Chicago. “Last year at this time, the industry was getting about 30,000 orders a month. Now, it is about 10,000.”

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