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76 October 2018 | AutoData PERSPECTIVES 2019 » ROAD IMPLEMENTS T he segment of heavy vehicles, for- med by trailers and semi-trailers, will keep driving the Brazilian intern sales of road implements in 2019, as it ha- ppens in 2018. The expectation is due to, in the short term, the Brazilian economy will keep having, as main growth indica- tor, the agribusiness, a great buyer of this implement. Another activity with an increase in- dicator, in the industry leaders’ view, is the fuel transport, which also earn im- By Roberto Hunoff, from Caxias do Sul, RS FROM GRAIN TO GRAIN Agribusiness will be decisive for the recovery of the industry of road implements recovery next year portant numbers of heavy implements. Norberto Fabris, president of the Bra- zilian Association of Road Implements Manufacturers, Anfir, affirmed, during the AutoData Commercial Vehicles Forum in Caxias do Sul, RS, to believe that regardless of the election result, the segment’s eco- nomic activity will continue in an upward curve - but chose not to point an index. While the consumption of the families, which drives the majority of the indus- trial sectors, is still weak, interfering in the