As vehicle values remained relatively steady, multiple Black Book representatives walking the lanes with dealers last week noticed consignment volume softened.

Before going into those observations, here are the numbers from the latest Black Book Market Insights report. Editors indicated car segments decreased value slightly last week, but overall both cars and trucks held fairly steady.

Out of both car and truck segments, Black Book noted compact vans performed the strongest, increasing in value by 0.89 percent.

According to volume-weighted information, editors computed overall car segment values decreased by 0.27 percent last week. In comparison, the market values had increased on average by 0.14 percent per week in the previous four weeks.

Within car segments, Black Book found that compact car and midsize car segments performed the worst, dropping by 0.89 percent and 0.44 percent, respectively.

Again looking at volume-weighted data, editors determined overall truck segment values — including pickups, SUVs and vans — increased by 0.10 percent last week, better than the average increase of 0.02 percent per week in the previous four weeks.

“The wholesale market held steady last week with stable values across most segments. Auction consignments were reported to be low for this time of the year,” said Anil Goyal, senior vice president of automotive valuation and analytics.

The consignment discussion came from Black Book representatives stationed throughout the country. Let’s start in the East and move to the West.

—From Pennsylvania: “Consignment was down a bit. Rental returns along with repos and lease returns dominated the auction. There were more bidder badges issued than normal.”

—From Indiana: “A good sale but consignment is still down. Nice, used vehicles are scarce, so the prices should remain strong on the clean and extra clean units.”

—From Washington: “Low number of consigned vehicles and a lot of high mileage or damaged vehicles. Even so prices were steady or even up slightly.”

While not mentioning dealer consignment, Black Book’s other two lane watchers to report back to headquarters had these observations:

—Out of Arizona: “Two good auctions here this week. Cars and trucks were bringing all the money.”

—Out of Michigan: “Late model year trucks with average or fewer miles are doing very well. The money on those units remains strong.”