Just Plain Jeff
08-23-2007, 06:13 AM
Each month Prevost Car puts out a report of how many completed new shells are available on the ground for sale at the retail level.
Usually there are around 70 or so, spread around to the various converters across the country.
First, there is a term, "sold into production." That means a converter is building coaches which are already sold.
Made a few calls yesterday and this is what I came up with:
Liberty is maintaining production levels with several months of coaches sold into production, about 24-28.
Parliament has increased its production (much of which is already sold) to about the Liberty level.
Featherlite has cut back production to about the same levels as Liberty and Parliament.
Marathon, which was at 50 coaches for awhile, is cutting back, but couldn't get an exact number.
Country Coach is keeping at their recently increased production level of about 25 coaches/year.
Millennium is maintaining production at 12-18 coaches.
Bleakley (a dealership, the converter is Legendary) still has about 5 Legendary coaches in stock (manufacturing has been ceased) at $979K or so.
Note: This is from the rumor mill, so take this as it is reported.
Usually there are around 70 or so, spread around to the various converters across the country.
First, there is a term, "sold into production." That means a converter is building coaches which are already sold.
Made a few calls yesterday and this is what I came up with:
Liberty is maintaining production levels with several months of coaches sold into production, about 24-28.
Parliament has increased its production (much of which is already sold) to about the Liberty level.
Featherlite has cut back production to about the same levels as Liberty and Parliament.
Marathon, which was at 50 coaches for awhile, is cutting back, but couldn't get an exact number.
Country Coach is keeping at their recently increased production level of about 25 coaches/year.
Millennium is maintaining production at 12-18 coaches.
Bleakley (a dealership, the converter is Legendary) still has about 5 Legendary coaches in stock (manufacturing has been ceased) at $979K or so.
Note: This is from the rumor mill, so take this as it is reported.