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Clearly, we’re living in weird times – so it’s no surprise that New Zealand’s new truck market is also behaving a little strangely.

In October, for instance, the market seemed to find some stability – even as COVID-19 emergency levels around the country see-sawed up and down.

Truck sales for the overall market (above 4.5 tonnes GVM) were almost identical to the previous month – 477 (in October), 475 in September.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency statistics show that this was a 32.1% improvement on October 2020 (when just 361 new trucks were registered) – but only slightly down on the last “normal” (ie pre-COVID-effected) year, in 2019…when there were 480 registrations... ... 

New Zealand’s new truck and trailer market came down with COVID-19 again in August – the country’s Level 4 lockdown decimating sales.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency statistics show that the overall truck market (over 4.5 tonnes GVM) plunged to just 283 new truck registrations for the month. 

That was a 34% drop on the previous month’s 429 total, and 29% down on August last year (with 399 registrations).

The trailer industry fared worse: The month saw just 75 new trailers registered – down 44% from July’s 134….and a 33% drop from August 2020’s 112.

Year to date truck registrations at the end of August stood at 3084 – still ahead of last year’s COVID-ravage... ... 

New Zealand’s new truck market stayed consistent in July – the year-to-date sales at the end of the month continuing to lag 9.5% behind 2019’s benchmark.

The month saw 429 trucks with a GVM over 4.5 tonnes registered, taking the YTD total to 2801 – compared to 3096 in the last “normal” (ie pre-COVID) year.

In the trailer market, 134 July registrations carried the 2021 total to 855 – almost 16% behind 2018’s alltime best of 1017. 

In July’s overall truck market, FUSO did best with 88 registrations, compared to longtime market leader Isuzu’s 61 (and third-placed Hino’s 73).

That saw FUSO close Isuzu’s YTD lead down to 25 sales – 549 to 524. Year on year, FUS... ... 

New truck registrations from July are again well behind last year’s figures as truck sales continue to reflect the overall state of the New Zealand economy.

The monthly registrations showed just 367 new truck sales, well behind the July 2024 volume of 446 registrations, equating to a 17.7% year-on-year decrease.

Year-to-date the 2,126 registrations in the first seven months of the year compares to 3,275 in the same period last year.

The YTD tally of 550 trailer registrations is 40.68% down on last year’s 926 units registered by July 2024 and 45.9% down on the record year-to-date total of 1017 new trailers registered in Jan-July 2018.

Isuzu co... ...