{"id":2031,"date":"2015-05-20T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-05-20T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:18:43","slug":"van-registrations-rise-21-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/van-registrations-rise-21-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Van registrations rise 21% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van registrations rose 20.9% to 24,927 units in April, reflecting the ongoing recovery in the economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the year to date sales of vans were up22% to 122,702 units, according to figures released by the SMMT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sales of trucks rocketed 43.5% for the month and were ahead 41.7% in the year to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith business confidence still on the up, the strong uplift enjoyed in the commercial vehicle market this year has continued into spring,\u201d said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDemand for new vans is stronger than ever, with the sector recording its 12th consecutive month of growth in April,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NFDA said a number of factors lay behind the sales increases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHealthy demand is being driven by competitive financial offers from dealers and manufacturers, growth and upsurge in self-employment, the service industries and continual increases in demand for home deliveries via internet sales.\u201d, said NFDA director Sue Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van registrations rose 20.9% to 24,927 units in April, reflecting <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/van-registrations-rise-21-april\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[243,35,244],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-nfda","tag-smmt","tag-van-registrations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}