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MEDIUM DUTY TRUCK SALES SEGMENT REFUSES TO BE COWED

It is easy to discount January commercial vehicle sales as representing the traditional slow start to the year that can be ignored as the economy gets its act together.

But the month’s figures are the earliest pointer to longer-term trends likely to affect the following 11 months.

The headline total figure of 1,852, for example, puts the market just below

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