Trailer Sales Rise to Record Level

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Trailer sales in 1998 kept pace with the strong showing of Class 8 trucks, setting a record of their own with shipment of 344,007 complete trailers and chassis.

Year-end figures published by the Truck Trailer Manufacturer’s Association showed the total to be 47.3% above the 1997 figure of 233,483 and 64,863 — or about 23% — above the previous record year, 1995.

Although TTMA President Richard P. Bowling said that a “direct relationship” between truck sales and trailer sales could not be discerned from a study of yearly sales, the two markets seem to have run parallel to each other in recent years.

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