Competition record
Scania
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Scania is the Swedish heavy-truck maker that stayed out of the trucks-cartel settlement. The Commission fined it in a separate decision over the same coordination of gross list prices and emission surcharges, inside a case that totaled about €3.8 billion.
Overview
Scania builds heavy trucks in Sweden and sells them to fleets across Europe. Operators compare Scania with Volvo, MAN, Daimler, and Iveco on price, fuel use, and the workshop network. The gross list price is the number printed before the discount. Emission surcharges are the extra lines added when a new pollution rule puts more equipment on the truck.
The Commission found those manufacturers coordinated list prices and emission surcharges. Most of them entered a settlement. Scania did not join that settlement and was fined in its own decision afterward. The conduct described is the same coordination. The procedural path is different, which is why fleets' lawyers keep Scania's decision as a separate document.
About €3.8 billion is the widely stated total for the trucks cartel. It is not a Scania-only figure, and this profile does not invent one. Library status is fined. A haulier renewing a fleet was negotiating against a list the rivals had discussed.
Competition footprint
Scania's separate infringement decision is the legal record of its fine, distinct from the settlement the others accepted.
Gross list prices and emission surcharges are the two coordinated items.
Daimler, Iveco, MAN, and Volvo are the other truck makers in the cartel as this library describes it.
Consumer & business angle
Fleet engineers and finance directors are the direct buyers. They model the list price and the surcharge into a cost per kilometre.
A small haulier with twenty trucks feels a coordinated list more sharply than a manufacturer describing an industry meeting.
What to watch
- Damages cases that plead the Scania decision on its own, because Scania was outside the settlement.
- How courts treat list-price coordination when the invoice the fleet actually paid was a negotiated discount.
Markets
heavy-duty trucks · fleet vehicle pricing · commercial vehicle pricing
Also known as: scania ab, scania trucks