J.D. Power Valuation Services

The evidence is far from overwhelming, but the worst of the price depreciation for used trucks may be over.

With 2024 orderboards open, Class 8 truck orders hit their highest level of the year in September and suggest fleet optimism.

Unprecedented high prices for used trucks a year ago have plummeted as new truck production moved past supply shortages.

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El aumento de la fabricación de camiones nuevos ha contribuido a invertir los costos de adquisición en subastas y al por menor.

After months of downward moves, used truck prices ended the year closer to pre-pandemic levels than anytime since COVID hit.

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Drivers who paid top dollar for a used truck in the past year are probably kicking themselves, if not just taking the hit and walking away.

As supply chain logjams lessen, improving new truck production levels put downward pressure on used truck prices.

Used trucks commanded lower prices at auction and retail in July as the overheated equipment market continued to cool.

Los conductores que persiguen las tarifas al contado se rinden ante la caída de las mismas

Auction prices for used trucks are dropping as more equipment shows up amid cooling spot freight demand.

Used truck auction prices started to ease in April as freight demand slowed, but they remain more than twice as expensive as a year ago.

The unrelenting rise of used truck prices in auctions and at retail appears to be immune even to the threat of an economic slowdown.

Finding a used truck in an overheated market is hard, but personal connections can be an answer, whether it’s the local plumber or the chamber of commerce.

Used truck prices continued to rise as 2021 ended with a short supply of late-model used trucks the main culprit, but there were other reasons too.

Drivers and fleets can get loans to pay sky-high prices for used trucks because spot rates let them earn more than enough to repay.

Fleets and individual truckers buying at today’s elevated prices
assume a big risk when the used equipment market normalizes.

Sought-after used trucks nearly double in year-over-year price, according to J.D. Power Valuation Services.

Used truck prices continue to fly higher as demand overwhelms supply of pre-owned models.

Higher prices for used trucks are expected to last into 2022 and when they fall, it will be from a lofty place.

Skyrocketing prices for late-model used equipment bring older, less attractive used trucks to auctions

A double whammy of few new trucks and fleets wanting upgraded equipment in a booming freight market is driving prices to a post-Great Recession peak.

Slowdowns in deliveries of new trucks are driving prices of newer used trucks up in the double digits both at dealerships and in auctions.

The growing backlog of new truck orders has supercharged pricing for newer used models at auctions, with retail traffic also high.

New Class 8 truck orders are piling up, leading fleets to turn to used equipment to add capacity in a consumer-driven freight market.

Prices for used Class 8 tractors should maintain the momentum from the last half of 2020, but the nation’s unemployment rate could affect that, according to J.D. Power Valuation Services.

The trend of improving used truck sales stalled in October. But year-over-year price gains are holding up. Added capacity could be a problem if pandemic shutdowns slow freight demand.

All stakeholders are experiencing used truck momentum despite and because of the lingering pandemic.

Pulled along by improving orders for new Class 8 trucks, demand for late-model heavy-duty used trucks continues to swell.

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.

It’s a bargain hunter’s market for used trucks, especially sleeper cabs, as prices come off the floor but demand for one-owner equipment remained slack in May.

April’s coronavirus impact intensified pricing pressure in an already depressed used truck market where most cash-conserving buyers held back on purchases.

With benchmark prices down 26% year over year, analysts pin hopes for a used truck sales recovery to the restart of the economy. March was a tale of contrasts with decent sales early in the month that plummeted later as too many trucks sought too few loads.

Before the coronavirus became a pandemic, used truck sales posted their best performance in two years as low prices and seasonality combined to boost an otherwise slow market for older equipment.

Fleet failures and bankruptcies contributed to a 14% decline in prices in 2019.

It is sort of a hostage situation. New truck orders are stalled until used truck prices go higher.

The number of used Class 8 trucks for sale continues to grow as new equipment deliveries drain the backlog created during a 2018 order binge.

Used truck sales continue to fall but for the first time since January 2018, so are the prices asked for them.

Preliminary used Class 8 truck sales fell for the 10th consecutive month in August as used trucks hit the market in bigger numbers because of new truck deliveries from record orders placed in the latter half of 2018.