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in 2012, but that was still 13.4 per-
cent below the 20,939 trucks sold in
December 2011.
For the year, sales rose to 194,715,
up 13.6 percent from 2011, and the
highest total since the 284,008 sold in
2006.
December historically is the stron-
gest sales month of any year, but in
2012 it was only slightly higher than
the 18,012 total in May, the year’s sec-
ond-best month.
Aging equipment and relatively
good truck tonnage levels provided an
impetus to purchase new trucks, but
economic, fiscal and political uncer-
tainty led some customers to stick with
their existing trucks longer than they
normally would.
Although the industry’s annual sales
tally has risen three years in a row since
bottoming out at 94,798 in 2009, last
year still didn’t reach the sales levels of
2004 to 2006, when the industry sold
more than 200,000 trucks each year.
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