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The New Zealand new truck market continues to show signs of slowing, with April registrations well behind 2024 levels.

NZ Transport Agency data shows 270 new trucks (with a GVM of 4.5 tonnes or more) were registered for the month, taking the total sales for the first four months of the year to 1187 units. The total for the January-April period last year was 1940 registrations.

It’s a similar story in the trailer market with 65 registrations in April – the lowest monthly total since 2020’s Covid lows. The YTD total at the end of April stands at 321, again a similar number to the 2020 YTD total of 318 and well behind the 541 registrations during the first fou... ... 

The new truck and trailer registration data for March confirms a slow first quarter of sales activity for the New Zealand market.

The overall market figures for March show a very similar trend to February 2025 with numbers continuing to trend well down on the first quarter of last year.

Total new truck registrations (4.5t GVM and above) for Q1 of 2025 are 917 units, which is 38% down on the 1480 registrations in the same period last year. The monthly figure for March 2025 of 307 units is a decrease of 42.8% on 537 registrations in March 2024.

The trailer market is performing much the same, with the YTD registration total of 259 units being a 36.7% d... ... 

New truck registrations continue to make a slow start to 2025 with February numbers well down on the same month last year, and the trailer segment is also performing at a slower pace.

According to NZTA provisional data there were 271 trucks (with a GVM of 4.5t-plus) registered in February, nearly half of the 475 registrations in February 2024. Year-to-date total registrations of 610 units is down from 937 units (a 34.89% decrease) on the same period last year.

Registration data also shows low numbers for new trailer registrations. The monthly total of 80 new trailers is well behind the February record of 133 registrations set last year and the YTD total of... ... 

Isuzu has secured the number one ranking in the New Zealand new truck market again while Fruehauf has had another good year to retain number one position in the trailer market.

The NZTA registration data for 2024 shows a total of 5488 registrations (with a GVM above 4.5 tonnes) which is an 11.24% decrease from last year’s record of 6,183 registrations.

The new trailer market also reports a year-on-year decrease with total registrations of 1403 units being a 9.30% reduction from the 1547 total in 2024. The all-time record for trailer registrations remains at 1714 new units achieved in 2018.

Closing the year with 166 registrations during November and ... ...