GAINESVILLE, Ga. -

In reviewing last week’s activity in the wholesale lanes, Black Book’s Ricky Beggs noticed something that had not been spotted in two months.

Speaking about the 14 used-truck categories that Black Book monitors, Beggs noted that “the compact pickup trucks actually increased by $12. This is the first positive movement change in the past nine weeks (for any truck segment)."

Overall, the average change for the car segments was a downward adjustment of $51; for trucks, it was a decrease of $43.

Breaking down the car segments, Beggs noted that while there weren’t as drastic of declines this week, a few categories saw measurable drop-offs.

“There were no $90 and greater declining adjustments like the three segments from the previous week, but the greatest declining segments were varied from the premium sporty cars at $87 to the entry midsize cars at $79 and then the luxury level cars at $64,” he said. (Those same three segments were the ones with $90-plus declines the previous week.)

“This is quite different from a year ago in the cars where the overall declining change was less than half at $23 with the prestige luxury cars declining the most at $56 with one segment, and the near-luxury cars actually increasing by $13 for the week,” Beggs continued.

As for trucks, four segments declined less than $30 and then compact pickups jumped $12.

However, luxury SUVs were off $113, the second straight week it has eclipsed a $100 decline. Additionally, full-size crossovers fell $99, and their average change over the last three weeks is a downward adjustment of $102, Beggs pointed out.

Looking forward, Beggs said: “What can we expect as we look ahead? The percentage of adjustments that were increases at 18 percent this past week continues a run where seven of the past eight weeks had sub-20-percent increases. With a four-week average change of  (negative) 0.37 percent for the cars and (negative) 0.46 percent for the trucks per week, we expect a continuation of change in this same range."