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Truck market better than expected

IF HALF YEARLY results are anything to go by, truck sales figures for 2020 may not be the complete disaster some pundits have been spectacularly quick to predict.

Certainly, the sales market to the end of June hasn’t been great and the strong figures of the previous three years now seem like a distant dream. Or were they an unsustainable illusion?

Whatever, we’ve never seen anything like COVID-19 before and the simple fact is that 2020 numbers to date could have been worse. Much worse. For instance, as the Truck Industry Council (TIC) reported back in May, ‘Despite the

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