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28 April 2018 | AutoData MARKET » TRUCKS T he black clouds with lightning and storms were left behind. At the front of the booth executives of the Brazi- lian truck market still see some clou- ds in the sky and holes in the road, but they are insufficient to take the optimism of the segment regarding the perspectives that are created. The result of the first two months brou- ght encouraging figures: a 54.7% increase in truck licenses to 8 thousand 600 units, with some segments more than 80% hi- gher than the sales volumes of the first two months of last year, such as of heavy goods. The performancewaswell above, even, the Anfavea’s projections for the year, a 24.7% increase that would take the sector to 79.5 thousand units sold of commercial vehicles in 2018 - added bus chassis and By André Barros Loads of optimism After a good start to the year the truck industry believes that the crisis in the sector has been left behind: expectation is already growing above the projection of Anfavea. trucks. Isolated, the segment of trucks, estimates the association, would grow the same 24.7%, to something around 63 thousand units. The comparison of the first two mon- ths, however, occurs on an extremely low base, a point made by all the executives consulted. From January to February last year, 5 thousand 600 truckswere licensed, the lowest volume of the last ten years - according to Anfavea, in this period the sector recorded an average of 16.5 thou- sand trucks sold in the first two months. The result of 2018 is still, therefore, half of the average index from 2008 to 2017. In any case, the truck industry had not been so optimistic. “Fenatran was a mi-