Truck sales stay in the green but tough months lie ahead

Though truck sales showed year-on-year growth at the end of August, it has been tough going for the SA commercial vehicle market over the past months. 

According to the latest year-to-date sales figures released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA (Naamsa), new commercial vehicle sales increased 3.1% compared with the first eight months of 2018.  This brought the total of new trucks and buses sold in 2019 to 17,919 at the end of August. ..

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