The European market for off-road rigid and articulated dump trucks (ADTs) stood at some 1,800 units per year in 2018 and 2019, according to specialist market research and forecasting company, Off-Highway Research. This is healthy compared with the early part of the 2010s, but weak compared with the 2000s. Demand was comfortably above 2,500 units per year in the 2000s, until the global economic crisis, and peaked at more than 3,600 trucks in 2007. Out of the two types of truck, it is the rigid hauler market which shrank the most following the crisis and which has been the most sluggish since. At around 300 trucks per year at the moment in Europe, demand for this type of equipment is less than half what it was in the boom of the 2000s. The articulated dump truck market is also much smaller than it was 15 years or so ago, but it has bounced back a little more than has the demand for rigid framed trucks.
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