STUTTGART (Reuters) - Daimler Truck expects a further slowdown in demand for commercial vehicles and its new CEO must take measures to adjust for that, the German company's Chairman Joe Kaeser said on Thursday.

"Our profitability is not yet where competitors are, that has to change in the medium to long term", Kaeser told a press conference after Karin Radstrom was announced as the company's next CEO late on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach Writing by Andrey Sychev; Editing by Mark Potter)