Truck registrations climb in Europe

Brussels - Figures from the European vehicle manufacturers' federation,. ACEA, show that registrations of light and heavy trucks in Europe continue to show healthy growth.

Light truck (below 3.5 tonnes) registrations have steadily gone up since the beginning of the year. In May, 191 000 new vans were registered in Europe (EU23+EFTA), 3.6 percent more than last year. The increase in the 15 countries of the EU was 2.7 percent. Overall, after first five months of 2007, there were 5.3 percent more new vans registered in Europe than last year.

New heavy truck (over 16 tonnes) registrations in Europe (EU22+EFTA) jumped by 64.9 percent (see picture) in May 2007. However, the figures from a year ago were heavily distorted downwards due to the introduction of digital tachograph in May 2006. Any meaningful analysis is therefore still difficult to conduct.

Registrations of mid-sized truckwere also affected by the tachograph regulations and sales soared by 60 percent on a year-on-year basis due to the low figures in May 2006. In total, 38 400 trucks were registered in May 2007. The new EU members' registrations more than doubled, reaching 5430 units.

The market for new buses and coaches in Europe (EU21+EFTA) showed some recovery signs in May 2007 (+6.7%), after a number of months of declining sales. The overall cumulative loss still stands at 11 percent, but German, French and Spanish markets saw their results improve (+114.5 percent, +16.1 percent and +10.9 percent, respectively).

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Press releasefrom Acea