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New Zealand’s new truck and trailer market continues to settle near 2025 levels, with a slight uplift recorded in the March 2026 registration figures provided by NZTA.

New truck registrations (4.5t and above) totalled 341 units in March, an increase of 11.07% on 307 sales in March 2025.

Year-to-date (YTD) the truck market now totals 894 units in the first quarter of the year, down slightly (-2.5%) on the 917 units registered in the same period last year.

The trailer market is tracking much of the same – the YTD total is 228 registrations which is an 11.96% decrease on last year’s 259 units. However, the monthly total of 88 new trailers for March is down just two registratio... ... 

The New Zealand new truck market continues at a slow pace with monthly registrations for February being 15 units behind the January numbers.

According to NZTA provisional registration data there were 270 trucks (with a GVM of 4.5 tonnes-plus) registered in February, almost identical to last year’s 271 registrations in the same month, but well behind the record 475 registrations from February 2024.

The latest registration data reveals that new trailer registrations also remain slow. There were 73 registrations in February, a slight lift from the January total of 67.

The best February on record was 2024 with 133 new trailer registrations while the 2026 YTD (Jan-Feb) total of ... ... 

Isuzu has again secured the number one ranking in the New Zealand new truck market (above 4.5t GVM) with Fuso securing second position with a strong sales performance in November and December.

The NZTA registration data for 2025 sees only 3,720 registrations for the full year, a decrease of 32.17% compared to 2024 (5488 registrations), and a long way behind the all- time high of 6,183 units in 2023.

The new trailer market is also slow year-on-year with total registrations of 928 units, from the 1403 total achieved in 2024. It’s also a long way behind the record which remains the 1714 new units achieved in 2018.

While Isuzu topped the registration numbers its market share re... ... 

Both new truck and trailer registrations as reported by NZ Transport Agency data for October show a marginal increase month on month, and potentially an early sign of recovery for the market.

There were 350 registrations of new trucks with a GVM above 4.5 tonnes (compared to 341 for the previous month). It’s still a long way behind last October’s 525 registrations and the year-to-date (YTD) total has now reached 3,174 units in the first ten months of 2025 (down from 4,719 units registered in the same period last year).

The trailer market YTD total stands at 794 – again a long way behind last year’s October YTD of 1,232…and still a long way behind 2018’s all-time best 1458.

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