Along with some specifics as to what dealers wanted coming down the lanes, this week’s Black Book Market Insights report showed depreciation across the board for all car and truck segments.

Editors put particular emphasis on trucks and small crossovers. They indicated vehicles in these segments faced the heaviest price drops this past week with compact vans added into the mix, too.

“Weekly depreciation rates have been fairly consistent since Memorial Day with cars at a cumulative adjustment of 2.7 percent, a 35-percent higher rate of decline compared to trucks at 2.0 percent,” said Anil Goyal, Black Book’s senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics.

Volume-weighted, editors indicated overall car values decreased 0.37 percent last week. That’s the lowest overall weekly deprecation rate in the past six weeks.

Black Book noticed full-size and midsize car segments received the highest weekly depreciation rates at 0.66 percent and 0.54 percent, respectively. In fact, the full-size segment registered its highest weekly depreciation rate this year.

Volume-weighted, editors found that overall truck values decreased 0.30 percent last week. A year ago, the decline came in at 0.17 percent.

Black Book analysis showed the sub-compact luxury crossover segment turned in the highest weekly deprecation rate at 1 percent. Three segments followed closely with 0.79 percent declines; that group included sub-compact crossovers and compact luxury crossovers as well as compact vans.

So in light of the prices movements, what are dealers seeking to fill their inventories? Black Book’s representative in Florida reported, “Buyers continuously looking for low mileage, clean history units in this location.”

Perhaps those kinds of units were what brought out the hammer quickly in Michigan as Black Book reported, “A very big auction today. Bidding was active and the sales percentages were high.”

Two recaps from Tennessee showed varied wholesale activity as one representative indicated, “Prices were strong here today with full-size pickup trucks leading the way,” while another also stationed in the Volunteer State added, “A lot of no-sales in the highline lanes today.”

Up in Pennsylvania, Black Book spotted some soft activity, too, as its representative said, “Seems to be fewer cars and more trucks and SUVs on the lanes these days.”

Finally out West, Black Book’s representative in Washington noticed, “Prices were down a little on most models today, but still a good auction.”