{"id":5853,"date":"2014-02-21T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2014-03-06T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:15:55","slug":"uk-commercial-vehicle-down-14-6-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5853","title":{"rendered":"UK Commercial Vehicle Manufacturing Down 14.6% In January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial vehicle manufacturing output fell by 14.6% in January compared to January 2013, continuing a decline that has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4288\">output drop by 32% since January 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decline shows no sign of slowing, and perhaps worryingly, demand fell faster at home (down 17.9%) than it did in our primarily European export markets (down 10.8%):<\/p>\n<table width=\"578\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CV manufacturing<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Jan-13<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Jan-14<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>% Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>YTD-13<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>YTD-14<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>% Change<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\"><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>7,822<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>6,681<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>-14.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>7,822<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>6,681<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>-14.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Home<\/td>\n<td>4,196<\/td>\n<td>3,445<\/td>\n<td>-17.9%<\/td>\n<td>4,196<\/td>\n<td>3,445<\/td>\n<td>-17.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Export<\/td>\n<td>3,626<\/td>\n<td>3,236<\/td>\n<td>-10.8%<\/td>\n<td>3,626<\/td>\n<td>3,236<\/td>\n<td>-10.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>% export<\/td>\n<td>46.4%<\/td>\n<td>48.4%<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>46.4%<\/td>\n<td>48.4%<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Data courtesy of SMMT (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smmt.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.smmt.co.uk<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5854\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5854\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5854\" alt=\"CV output rolling Jan 2008-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smmt-cv-manu-jan14.png\" width=\"266\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smmt-cv-manu-jan14.png 266w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smmt-cv-manu-jan14-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph courtesy of SMMT.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Hawes, the SMMT&#8217;s chief executive, believes the change is due to various companies&#8217; restructuring their manufacturing activities in 2013, and to the introduction of Euro 6 emissions legislation for lorries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNew Euro-6 engine emission legislation came into effect from January this year, a change which invariably results in a lull in UK heavy commercial vehicle manufacturing and a contributor to January\u2019s 14.6% fall in output,\u201d said Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>While van production was strong in the month, the 2014 market will, for some months, continue to be affected by the Europe-wide restructuring that occurred last year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that there was a dip in truck registrations in January, following the surge seen during the second half of last year, but it also seems clear to me that the UK&#8217;s CV manufacturing industry is now unlikely ever to recover the capacity lost by the closure of Ford&#8217;s Southampton plant and as a result of the other restructuring that took place in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK commercial vehicle manufacturing fell by 14.6% in January, continuing a two-year decline that has seen output fall by almost a third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[310,1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}