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The 83rd State of the Fleet Industry video produced by Automotive Fleet offers an updated look at the state of the fleet market as presented by AF Editor Mike Antich.
🎙 Today's topics include:
- The anticipated additional disruption of the supply chain due to today’s geopolitical issues will extend today’s supply chain imbalance.
- The reason today’s situation in Ukraine is so important is because most finished metals especially aluminum come from Russia/Ukraine and China, but more so from Russia/Ukraine since the U.S. added tariffs on Chinese finished materials.
- If there is a tit-for-tat escalation in sanctions, it can crimp the supply of aluminum. Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was a 9 to 12-month order-to-delivery time for the time it takes to receive aluminum in bulk.
- How will the auto industry be impacted by the reduced availability of steel, aluminum, and stainless?
- Mills are limiting who gets supply for the purpose of reallocating supply to higher-margin customers. Problematic or low-margin customers are getting letters from the mills saying they can’t supply metal. This “saved” production is being reallocated to higher-margin customers.
- The price of aluminum has had back-to-back increases in the first two months of 2022. Also since October 2021, the price of aluminum is 68% higher.
Silverado Medium Duty led the way in February, posting a 12 percent gain versus last February. A combination of Commercial and Dealer Fleet sales propelled the increase. Silverado Medium Duty is now up 35 percent calendar year-to-date.
Strong Commercial and Dealer Fleet sales also drove Low Cab Forward with 6 percent increases over both last February as well as January.
For the year, Medium Duty sales are up a very strong 35 percent!
Paradise Chevrolet was shown as the number one Medium-Duty Dealer Fleet dealer in the U.S.!
Here is a great truck for handling construction debris or heavy landscaping duty. With a 23,500 lb. Gross Vehicle Weight Rating, this Chevrolet Silverado Medium-Duty 6500 will carry the load and manage the road with the Duramax diesel and Allison automatic and other comfort features. The 14' Martin steel Landscape Dump body with high 48" gates and the swing-away rear gate will help get that debris or landscape materials moved where they need to go. It is also equipped with 60" underbed toolboxes and retractable tarp load cover.
RAILGATE SERIES: HIGH-CYCLE GBR: High-Cycle Gas Bottle Rack models incorporate the "High-Cycle" drive system and feature folding, gas bottle rack platforms. Ideal for gas cylinder transporters, these liftgates support higher lifting capacities and feature a platform drop-down function allowing work vehicles to load and unload in any manner at any location.
The 82nd State of the Fleet Industry video produced by Automotive Fleet offers an updated look at the state of the fleet market as presented by AF Editor Mike Antich.
Today's topics include:
- Multi-year impact on difficulty sourcing replacement vehicles.
- OEM strategy to strengthen the North American supply chain.
- Widespread increase in fleet costs due to inflationary pressures on commodity prices.
- Anticipation that 2023-MY vehicle prices will increase and fleet incentives will decrease.
