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Polk found new commercial vehicle registrations up 9.6%
Detroit,MICH,USA -AutoRemarketing -December 2, 2010: -- Polk reports used commercial vehicle registrations hit record. Class 3-8 used vehicle registrations hit 524,500 units for 1st 9 months of 2010. That's up 18.7% over same period last year... All totaled, commercial vehicle registrations hit 794,200 units, up 15.5%... Polk says record numbers create aftermarket opportunities, especially Class 8... Polk analysts also report new trailer registrations up 42.2% to 76,125 units. These numbers include trailers 24 feet or longer. Market strongly influenced by dry and refrigerated van trailers... Information part of Polk Commercial Vehicle Market Intelligence Report, includes information on Canadian, global heavy commercial markets...
* DC - Freight Index Climbed 0.2 Percent in October
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Joseph Bonney -Dec 8, 2010: -- TSI rose for 13th time in 17 months but remained down for the year... The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Index climbed 0.2 percent in October from its September level, rising for the 13th time in 17 months... The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in freight shipments in ton-miles of freight moved in for-hire trucking, rail, inland waterways, pipelines and air freight. Trucking makes up the majority of the seasonally adjusted index... The October reading pushed the index 5.7 percent over its June 2009 low, which was 15.3 percent below the pre-recession level of August 2008. Through the first 10 months of 2010, however, the index declined 0.7 percent. The October Freight TSI is down 12.4 percent from its historic peak of 112.9 reached in May 2006...
