LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -

The particular vehicle that delivered an online order to your home or brought the air conditioning or plumbing repair crew represents the hottest segment of a wholesale market that’s continue to sizzle.

Black Book reported on Tuesday that overall wholesale prices continued to increase for a fifth consecutive week.

In fact, analysts said that 21 of 22 vehicle segments posted week-over-week value increases during the span that closed on Saturday.

And as Black Book put it in the latest installment of Market Insights, full-size vans continue to “skyrocket,” increasing 35 out of the past 36 weeks.

Analysts determined the average weekly gain through that stretch by full-size vans was 0.55%. Those vehicles rose by 1.26% last week, helping to push the overall truck segment up by 0.47%.

Black Book offered this explanation as the reason why.

“The microchip shortage has forced OEMs to prioritize full-size truck and SUV production over this highly demanded segment, causing competition for these vehicles to continuously increase,” analysts said in the newest report.

Black Book mentioned that values of full-size trucks are moving higher, too, having now ticked up for three weeks in a row. Last week’s game was 0.20%.

Sliding over to cars, analysts indicated that overall car segment values on a volume-weighted basis rose another 0.64% last week, topping the previous week’s increase of 0.57%.

While technically a decrease, Black Book said only values for premium sporty cars dipped a week ago, and it was just 0.01%.

Two primary modes of transportation continue to experience price increases, as Black Book indicated values for midsize cars jumped 1.04% and values for compact cars climbed 0.95%.