The market and the money side
What a truck costs to run and what it is worth later, who builds and registers them, and the rules around parts and repair.
CBAM and trucks, buses, trailers and parts: what is covered and what is proposedWhether the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) applies to trucks, buses, trailers and their parts today, and which CN codes the 2025 proposal would add from 2028.
What it costs to run a tractor unitFuel, driver, tolls, tyres and residual value: where the money actually goes on a European long-haul tractor, and which lines the specification sheet controls.
Buying a used truck: what to check before you commitWhat a used truck's papers settle — the German CO2 toll class, its tachograph for cross-border work, the roadworthiness file's mileage record, the plated weights — and why to ask for the Euro VI step.
Truck depreciation and book value: five years, or a million kilometresA heavy truck is written off over five years in the German sectoral depreciation table, or over a million kilometres if you meter it — and a lease term is read as a percentage of the same table.
Who builds trucks in EuropeThe six groups behind Mercedes-Benz, Scania, MAN, Volvo, Renault Trucks, DAF, IVECO and Ford Trucks: who owns which brand, where the factories are, what each builds in-house.
What a European truck registration figure countsACEA reports the EU truck, bus and van market in categories it defines itself, with fixed weight thresholds. What each one counts, and what the 2025 figures said.
New truck brands entering Europe: approval, duty and partsOne EU whole-vehicle type-approval is valid Union-wide; national small series is capped at 250 units of a type per country a year and stops at the border. Plus what the 2024 duty covers.
European truck driver supply: the shortage and the rules that gate itIRU counts around 502,000 unfilled truck driver positions in Europe, 13 per cent of the workforce. What that figure measures, and which licence and qualification rules decide who may fill it.
Genuine, OE and aftermarket parts: what the law saysWhat EU law means by an original part, where the competition rules stand on a warranty refused over a non-dealer part, and which replacement brake parts need approval of their own.
Repair information access rights: what an independent workshop may demandEU type-approval law gives independent operators a right to the manufacturer's OBD data, tools and repair information. What Articles 61 and 63 oblige, and what it may cost.