Datamonitor's Trucks Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the trucks industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global trucks market generated total revenues of $541.7 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Market consumption volumes increased with a CAGR of 4.3% between 2001-2005, to reach a total of 19.5 million units in 2005.

Light commercial vehicle sales proved the most lucrative for the global trucks market in 2005, generating total revenues of $233.2 billion, equivalent to 43.1% of the market's overall value.

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Definition

The trucks market is composed of the light trucks market and the medium and heavy trucks market.

The market for light trucks is composed of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and light buses and coaches (LBC), of weights up to 3.5 tonnes. Pick-ups and vans are included, but SUVs and similar vehicles are excluded.

The market for medium and heavy trucks includes commercial vehicles (CVs), buses and coaches (BCs), heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs), and heavy buses and coaches (HBCs). CVs and BCs weigh 3.51 to 16 tonnes and include pick-ups, vans where they fall into this weight range. HCVs and HBCs weigh over 16 tonnes.

The market value is calculated in terms of manufacturer selling price (MSP), and excludes all taxes and levies. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, Taiwan, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.

Americas comprises the US, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.

The global market refers to Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.