06.11.2019
The age structure of the fleet is heterogeneous
Alexander Klimov, photo by the author
According to Russian Automotive Market Research (RAMR), on July 1, 2019 Russia had a fleet of trucks with GVW over 6 tons 3 million 496 thousand Most common in the Park of trucks dump trucks, tractors, flatbed or curtain-sided trucks, vans and liquid tanks.

Among them, the largest age different Park equipment onboard or tent: here the share of cars older than 20 years accounted for 69.4% of the Park? what it the average age of the largest in the Park for 22 years. In this case, flatbed trucks under 5 years old account for only 5.7% of the fleet onboard or tent equipment. Incidentally, it is also speaks to the growing specialization of the Park, which in itself would not be bad if it wasn't so great the average age in the Park.
The youngest among the types of trucks Park truck tractors. Here saddle tractors older than 20 years is only 25.8% of the Park. Most recent tractors under 5 years of age constitute 17.9 per cent of the Park, which puts the average age of Park of tractors on a level of 14.1 years.
Also large shares of old equipment (over 20 years) and in the segments of trucks (60,1%) and filling technique (59.1 per cent), due to the smaller share of private owners and accelerated depreciation write-off of companies by the owners. shares of 5-year-olds are, respectively, 19% and 21.5%.
In the segment of vans, the share of old machines is also significantly less than in the Park –only 44,2%, and 5-year-old machines over a quarter of 27.8%.