Trailer orders in North America in November spiked to the year’s second-best level, ACT Research reported, citing trailer makers’ preliminary final data.
Orders reached 39,000 compared with 32,103 a year earlier. August posted the highest net sales so far with 47,860, according to ACT.
“Nearly as soon as a build slot is available, there is a fleet ready to fill it with an order,” Jennifer McNealy, ACT’s director of commercial vehicle market research, said in a release.
The backlog-to-build ratios are near the 7.5-month mark, on average. The trailer backlog should increase by around 13,500 units when complete November data is released, she noted.
“That said, with orders being preliminary and the build numbers projections,” McNealy said, “there will be some variability in reported backlogs when final data are collected.”
