LEINFELDEN-ECHTERDINGEN (dpa-AFX) - The truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck sold significantly fewer commercial vehicles last year. Sales worldwide fell by 12 percent to 460,409 vehicles, as the Dax-listed company announced on Tuesday in Leinfelden-Echterdingen. The worst performance for the Swabians was in the long-ailing truck markets of Europe and Asia, where sales fell by around a fifth in each case. In North America, which is the most profitable region for Daimler Trucks, truck sales only fell by 2 percent. The company even managed to achieve a slight increase in bus sales worldwide. The group recorded an increase of 17 percent to 4,035 vehicles in sales of battery-electric vehicles./men/stk