In 2018 a German company Roland Berger issued a report concerning the trends in truck and trailer industry. Let’s take a look at the most interesting parts of it. According to the report there are four key trends which can be abbreviated into “LEAD”: New Logistics, Electrification, Autonomous truck and Digitalization. These disruptive trends will continue developing in the up-coming period and will influence the products and services in the truck and trailer industry.
Below you can see the forecast of the major truck and trailer market drivers and their development in the up-coning years.
The production of the medium and hevy duty trucks and buses will rise globally. For Europe, for example, the annual increase is expected to be about 1%.
What’s interesting the tightening emission standards for diesel engines as of January 2018 led to a massive “pre-buy” effect in China in 2017.
Semi-trailers constitute the majority of trailers production.
The European trailer firs-fit market for axles, brakes and landing gear is estimated at about EUR 1.5 billion in 2017.