December Medium-Duty Sales Continued to Trend Below 2023

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U.S. retail sales of medium-duty trucks declined year-over-year despite a sequential increase in December, according to data from Wards Intelligence.

Classes 4-7 retail truck sales for the month declined 1.2% to 22,586 units from 22,857 a year ago. But sales also were 20% higher sequentially from 18,828 reported in November. The latest results continued the trend of the back end of this year being outpaced by 2023. But this was only after a relatively strong start when it came to year-over-year results.

“A lot of it depends on who the customer is,” ACT Resear…