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New Zealand’s heavy truck sales had another record month in May – setting new benchmarks for the month and the year to date.

With 518 May registrations, the overall truck market (4.5 tonnes to maximum GVM), was 14.85% up on 2018’s record-breaking May.

And that pushed the year-to-date registration total at the end of May out to another alltime record – 2218 registrations compared to last year’s 2008….a 10.45% improvement.

Market leader Isuzu had another bumper month, with 126 May registrations in the overall market, taking its YTD total to 514 and increasing its lead over second-placed FUSO (348 YTD and 75 for the month).

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The New Zealand new truck market continued its record-breaking form in April. 

Four hundred trucks were registered for the month in the overall market (trucks with a GVM of 4.5 tonnes or more), taking the total sales for the first four months of the year to 1700, according to official NZ Transport Agency data.

That was a 7% improvement on the previous best-ever April registration tally – the 372 recorded last year. 

The YTD total at the end of April was also an alltime best – an 8.4% increase on last year’s 1557 registrations.

The trailer market, while still buoyant – with 126 registrations – was still 33 shy of last ... ... 

New Zealand’s new truck market continued to run at record levels in March – with the overall market’s best-ever figures for the month.

The 495 registrations of trucks with GVMs over 4.5 tonnes was 6.7% up on March 2018 and 2.3% ahead of the previous record of 484, set in 2017. 

The 1300 trucks (4.5t to maximum GVM) registered to the end of March was also the best first-quarter performance ever, almost 10% better than the old mark.

The trailer market, while still buoyant – with 153 March registrations – was eight short of last year’s record March and the 371 YTD total was also down on last year’s 384.

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New Zealand’s new heavy truck market continued at recordbreaking levels in February – albeit only narrowly.

New truck registrations for the month in the overall market (all trucks above a 4.5-tonne GVM) totalled 389….just six more than the same month last year, which was the previous February alltime best.

On top of a recordbreaking January, the February regos guaranteed another record – the 805 2019 sales to the end of February easily beating the 721 for the first two months of 2018.

NZ Transport Agency registration statistics, analysed by industry consultant Robin Yates’ Marketing Hand, show that the heavy trailer market couldn&rsq... ...