{"id":6895,"date":"2014-12-04T15:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2014-12-04T15:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T15:48:32","slug":"van-registrations-up-17-1-in-november-truck-sales-slump-in-type-approval-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6895","title":{"rendered":"Van registrations up 17.1% in November, truck sales slump in Type Approval aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose by 17.1% during November 2014,\u00a0compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n

Truck registrations plummeted, falling by 49.6% in the wake of the introduction of the new Type Approval regulations — a topic I discussed last month<\/a>, when it created an artificial boost in pre-Type Approval sales (in short, operators were registering new trucks in October so they could be fitted with bodies\u00a0post-registration, thus avoiding the need to comply with the new Type Approval rules which now\u00a0govern conversions of\u00a0unregistered vehicles).<\/p>\n

Over the year to date,\u00a0van registrations are up by 18% in 2014, while truck registrations (commercial vehicles over 3.5t) are down by 14%.<\/p>\n

\"SMMT

Van and truck registrations, rolling year changes from Jan 2010 – November 2014 (courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n

Commenting on the figures,\u00a0Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said that\u00a0“buoyant consumer\u00a0confidence and a rise in home deliveries”<\/em> were behind the “surging demand for vans”.<\/em><\/p>\n

The figures suggest he’s correct, with registrations of vans between 2.5t and 3.5t — the size commonly used for home delivery and courier work — rising by 17.1%, or 2,378 units, to 16,084 in November. This increase maintained the 18.8% growth seen in this category for the year to date.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0second biggest category, in volume terms, is vans\u00a0from 2.0-2.5t. New registrations in this category rose by 31.6% in November, but\u00a0as total sales\u00a0registrations were only 4,708, this remains less significant, in terms of numbers, than the larger category.<\/p>\n

As I’ve commented before, the UK van market appears to be in rude health,\u00a0which I take to indicate improved confidence and recovery for businesses of all sizes,\u00a0as well as\u00a0being a natural consequence of the financial crisis, during which many companies\u00a0postponed new vehicle purchases or bought used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New van registrations rose by 17.1% to 26,516 during November 2014, when compared against the same period during the previous year. <\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895"}],"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=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}