Transit buses, school buses and intercity / tour coach segments are on different trajectories when looking at global bus demand, stated Veerender Kaul, global vice-president commercial mobility at Frost and Sullivan talking at Busworld Academy North America about the global and North American bus and coach markets.

WABCO India Ltd has signed a development agreement with Oy Tamware Ab for the design and development of bus doors for the Indian commercial vehicle market.

LCV sales in Russia decreased by 1.9% to 104,224 units in 2019 from 106,224 vehicles in 2018 with the sales of foreign brands contracting by 6.5% from 36,670 to 34,288 units and the sales of Russia LCVs inching up by 0.5% from 69,554 to 69,936 units, according to statistics collated by Avtostat Info.

Truck (>5t gvw) sales in Russia in 2019 totalled 78,807 units, which was 3.3% fewer than the 80,702 trucks registered in 2018, according to figures produced by Avtostat Info.

The Russian bus and coach market reached 13,963 units in 2019, an increase of 5.2% on 13,274 in 2018, according to statistics collated by LLC Avtostat Info.

Albi-based SAFRA, a long established renovator of buses, trams, metro and funicular vehicles and more recently, a specialist bus builder of high quality innovative hydrogen electric, battery electric and hybrid 9-12m city buses, has announced it is increasing production on the back of an increasing order book.

Norwegian grocery distributor, ASKO AS last month began pilot operation of four Scania hydrogen fuel cell 26+1 tonnes gross vehicle weight trucks with an electric driveline.

The Russian trailer market after six years of growth declined in 2019.

Peterbilt Motors has supplied Werner Enterprises with a Model 579EV for its battery electric-powered truck pilot programme.

Ashok Leyland Ltd last month started delivering its first batch of BSVI compliant trucks to its customers several months ahead of the BSVI emission standards deadline of April 1, 2020.

December saw MAN Truck & Bus SE hand over the first two Lion’s City E buses to Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH.

Reporting an 81st year of continuous profits, truck builder, Paccar Inc achieved record revenues of USD25.6bn for the year ending December 31, 2019 and an increase of 8.9% compared with USD23.50bn in 2018 and USD19.46bn in 2017.