February Class 8 orders up 28% in year-over-year comparisons; the biggest such gain in two years.
Analysts are now expecting a “modest upturn: for Class 8 truck orders this year as February orders hit 23,200 units according to ACT Research and 22,900 units according to FTR.
Those numbers are up 28% versus February 2016, noted Kenny Vieth, ACT’s president and senior analyst; only the third positive year-over-year comparison, and the largest one at that, in the past two years