The chip crisis, which emerged during the coronavirus epidemic, caused a slowdown in production all over the world. Another sector where this slowdown was felt was the logistics sector. Despite the increasing trade volume, companies are struggling to find tow trucks and trucks due to the chip crisis and exchange rate increase.
With the coronavirus, the demand for e-commerce and international transportation has increased greatly. However, in order to respond to this demand, the need of logistics companies for the vehicles to realize the entire supply has increased at the same rate. The container crisis in the seaways and the increased capacity in the railways to the highway directed.
However, with the increase in the exchange rate and the demand created in our country, the prices of tractors and trucks, which are the backbone of the trade on the highways, skyrocketed. Only due to the increase in the exchange rate, the prices of the vehicles increased by 20% compared to the beginning of the year. When the cost increases due to the raw material crisis such as the chip crisis are added, the price of a truck exceeded 1 million TL. Just like in second-hand cars, the inability to find a brand new truck caused second-hand prices to skyrocket.
The problem in TIR production will continue in 2022:
Heavy Commercial Vehicles Association (TAID) President Ömer Bursalıoğlu stated that the problems experienced in the production of vehicles will continue next year. Bursalıoğlu, the chip crisis At the beginning of 2022 He stated that it is expected to continue, which means that the worldwide demand cannot be fully met. Man Truck and Bus Inc. Director Serkan Kara said that the chip shortage and increasing customer demand adversely affect the production side. stated.
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Not only attractive, trailer production is also difficult:
The only difficulty on the production side is not the tractors. There has also been an increase in the demand for trailer orders pulled by tow trucks and loaded. But The increase in trailer orders cannot be met either.. Nihat Ayhan, Turkey Sales Director of German trailer manufacturer Schmitz Cargobull, said that chip is the most popular crisis in supply problems, but it is not the only crisis, and that there are serious bottlenecks in many basic components.