Along with some other anecdotes about what’s happening in the lanes, the latest Black Book Market Insights report indicated the truck segment as a whole is remaining fairly stable.

Editors found that three vehicle categories within the truck segment increased their values last week, including the sub-compact crossover, midsize crossover/SUV and full-size pickup.

“Small cars continued to decline in value at a faster clip while large SUV and pickup truck values remained fairly stable last week,” said Anil Goyal, senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics at Black Book.

Volume-weighted, editors determined overall car segment values declined by 0.46 percent last week. In comparison, the market values had decreased on average by 0.32 percent per week in the previous four weeks.

In car segments, Black Book reported that sub-compact car and compact car segments performed the worst, decreasing by 0.88 percent and 0.97 percent, respectively.

Again analyzing volume-weighted data, editors found that overall truck segment values (including pickups, SUVs and vans) decreased by just 0.08 percent last week, better than the average decrease of 0.21 percent per week during the previous four weeks.

In truck segments, Black Book pointed out sub-compact luxury crossover/SUV and compact luxury crossover/SUV values dropped the most by 0.71 percent and 0.42 percent, respectively.

Turning next to what Black Book collected from its representatives scattered at more than 60 auctions nationwide, an auction general manager in Pennsylvania shared this assessment: “Our business has been good. I wish we had more vehicles to quench the dealer demand, but the positive sales conversions have been the norm, which is good.”

Meanwhile down in Georgia, Black Book’s lane watcher reported this assessment: “Online auctions in Florida (dealer consigned) and Pennsylvania (commercial) showed similar results. There was not a lot of interest in the vehicles, which resulted in more no-sales than usual.”

In nearby North Carolina, the story from the lanes went like this: “Volume was down but the inventory that was here sold well with very few no-sales.”

And finally out West in Washington, the auction beat evidently goes on as this recap indicated: “Normal sale this week with an average number of vehicles. Prices remain steady but dealers seem to be getting more conservative, not only in what they will buy but what they will pay.”