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Scania cracks one thousand in 2017
Solid sales gains across all facets of the business in the past 12 monthsIn 2017, Scania sold more new trucks to Australian customers than in any previous year, exceeding the 1000-deliveries barrier for the first time.
The company says that the achievement comes on the back of several strong years for sales development, but in 2017 Scania out-performed its previous best result by 29 per cent.
“The delivery of more than 1000 new Scania trucks to the Australian market in 2017 reflects the appeal and success of the Scania Total Transport Solutions sales concept among customers,” said Martin Toomey, Director of Sales for Scania Australia.
“Our previous best result was 778 truck deliveries, so the 2017 result reflects the market’s appreciation of the Scania offer beyond simply providing reliable, durable, comfortable trucks.
“We have long maintained that assisting our customers to achieve the best possible total operating economy benefits their profitability, which in turn ensures Scania is understood to be an important part of their business success,” he said.
“Our commitment to uptime and customer aftersales service, teamed with our very successful trucks with their huge driver appeal, have been very attractive arguments to convince new customers to join Scania during the year,” said Dean Dal Santo, National Sales Manager – Trucks, at Scania Australia.
“We have seen interest across the range of applications, from long distance line-haul to city-based distribution, as well as construction and forestry, while our mining and resources division based in Perth has also been busy supplying vehicles into the sector,” Dean said.
“Our Euro 6 offer is also finding greater acceptance among fleet operators, and late in 2017 we secured an order for what will be the biggest fleet of Scania Euro 6 trucks in Australia from South West Express, based in Bunbury.
“We also hold significant orders for delivery in the first half of 2018, underlining the on-going strength of the Scania offer in the face of a very competitive market in the 16-tonnes and above segment,” he said.
Scania also enjoyed record deliveries of buses and coaches to retail customers in 2017, with more than 250 vehicles supplied to private operators, from a total of 310 passenger carrying vehicles delivered in 2017.
Despite muted demand from some state government bus operations in 2017, the fully-imported Scania-Higer A30 continued to perform well in the retail market, along with locally-bodied buses for school and charter work, and some good touring coach deliveries including several complying with Euro 6 emission regulations.
“It was a very successful year for our bus business,” said Julian Gurney, National Sales Manager – Bus.
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