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The New Zealand truck market continues its quiet 2025 performance, with May figures confirming low volumes across both new truck and trailer registrations.

The May 2025 registration total of 279 new trucks (with a GVM of 4.5 tonnes or more) is just head of the April figure of 270 units. Trailers performed slightly better with 71 new registrations, up from 65 the previous month.

Total new truck sales in the first five months of the year are now 1466 units, down from 2399 registrations in the January-May 2024 period.

The 71 trailer registrations for May lifts the year-to-date (YTD) total to 391 units, a long way behind last year’s YTD total of 674 and ... ... 

New Zealand’s new truck and trailer registration figures confirm a slow start to 2025, with the January data for both sectors well below the January 2024 volumes.

According to NZTA provisional data there were 339 trucks (with a GVM of 4.5 tonnes-plus) registered during the first month of the new year, a hefty 26.6% decrease on the 462 sales from January 2024.

Official NZ Transport Agency registration data shows that trailer registrations are also significantly down year-on-year for the start of 2025, with 87 registrations being a 41.2% decrease on the January 2024 total of 148.

Hino has started the year strongly to gain the number one position in th... ... 

The New Zealand new truck market began to show signs of slowing in April.

NZ Transport Agency data shows 460 new 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 1940.

The total for the same January-April period last year was 1952 registrations, but for context the latest result is still the second-highest January-April registration total.

The trailer market is remaining buoyant – with 133 April registrations – which is just 13 shy of 2018’s record April performance of 146 registrations. The YTD total at the end of April stands at 541,... ... 

New truck registrations in March were down on the same month last year, possibly signalling the first signs of the market slowing from record volumes.

NZTA registration data for March 2024 saw 537 new truck registrations (above 4.5t GVM), down from the March record of 654 registrations set in 2023.

This total monthly figure also brings the YTD total to 1480, which is also down on last year’s total of 1528. The monthly figure of 537 is a decrease of 17.8% on 654 sales from March 2023 while the YTD total is a 3.14% decrease on the record number  achieved in the first quarter of 2023.

In contrast the trailer market is achieving record numbers with... ...