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The advanced safety features found in today’s newer trucks are a significant motivating factor for drivers to remain with a particular fleet.
Daimler Trucks adds three safety advances, building on NHTSA data showing fewer truck-related crash deaths.
New Class 8 truck orders are piling up, leading fleets to turn to used equipment to add capacity in a consumer-driven freight market.
Increased freight volume and higher carrier profits always drive Class 8 truck demand. The circumstances in 2020 differ from 2018’s tax cut-driven boom, but reasons for the surge are identical.
All stakeholders are experiencing used truck momentum despite and because of the lingering pandemic.
Prices are firming and demand is rising for used trucks after more than a year of doldrums mirroring a slowdown in new truck orders.
The recovery in freight pricing led to a five-year high in certain used truck auction volumes in June as crowds of identical used sleeper trucks pushed some prices lower.
John Flynn is convinced that safety equipment on heavy-duty trucks saves lives and could reduce nuclear verdicts. His company, Fleet Advantage, is taking a financial risk to prove his point.
Fleet Advantage offers book value cash and leasebacks to help trucking companies weather the economic crisis while banking on selling them new trucks down the road.
