3 More Sleeps Til Christmas
Blazed through another Year and with only 3 more sleeps til Christmas it's about time to look forward to 2026 as 2025 becomes chip paper.
2025 has been an interesting year in the bulk community. Within the wider world of Trucks - speaking to the head of Scania a mixed year.... even though Scania's Military side has taken a vast up tick from the shenanigins in Europe - a sad reason to be doing well I suppose - it's not just fighter jets and drones that move militaries forwards.
The agricultural community has taken quite a battering since Brexit. Farm incomes are not super healthy and Rachel Reeves has swept away any up beat feelings from family farms. In his last 2 fingers to the state we said goodbye to James Smith this year who as well as starting Newton in 1962 maintained a farm throughout his adult life.....So in departing the planet this year he did manage to dodge the Inheritance Tax attack on farms and farming families coming in April 2026. He would have been delighted to have disappointed Mrs Reeves - impecable timing dad!! So mostly 2025 was a replacement market for agriculture.
Waste and Construction held steady in 2025 and I think will go well in 2026. The fall in inflation and also in interest rates will give some confidence to the fleets and individuals to refresh in 2026. Housing is stutturing along and the Governments promise to build build build is yet to show up in the numbers but 2026 will be the year the numbers change upwards if Labour is going to have any success at all.
The runners and riders in the trailer manufacturing community have largely held themselves in a neutral position. All the manufacturers managed to survive 2025 and will look keen to fight for market shares in 2026.
The STAS tipping trailer had a steady 2025. There has been an excellent response to the engineering led HALO trailer from customers and a widespread acknowledgment of it's Class leading stability - the only trailer manufacturer in the UK to hold Class A IRTE tilt test standards and European DIN test standards whilst also reducing the total weight of it's design - the power of super computers in Engineering .... So an amazing 2026 is awaited
So all it remains to do is wish you all a very happy Christmas and a healthy and joyous New Year.
Posted by Andrew on 22/12/2025
