OREANDA-NEWS.  According to Rosstat, the production of trucks was 77.2 million units in January-August, which is less by 22.4% than a year ago. Last month, the Russian assembly lines produced 8.9 thousand trucks – it is less by 30.3% than a year before.

It is worth noting that KAMAZ stopped the conveyor during the two-week period of corporate holiday in August, and in the last week of the month in the company it was canceled one day of downtime after it became aware of the attraction in August by KAMAZ sellers of new orders in amount of 200 trucks.

Bus production in Russia for the first eight months of 2015 fell by 13.5% to 22.4 thousand units. In the August bus plants produced about 3.1 thousand vehicles – it is less by 14.2% than a year before.