Some 200 new heavy trucks were landed here in March – the highest figure so far this year – after 186 and 169 trucks over 3500kg crossed our wharves in the two previous months.
The total number of new heavy trucks landed in the first quarter of this year – 555 – is, however, almost 100 units down on the 633 trucks over 3500kg that arrived in the first quarter last year.
But the total for the quarter is well up on the 357 heavy trucks landed in the first quarter on 2011.
It was also another solid month for used import trucks over 3500kg with178 landed here in the first three months of this year.
One in four trucks over 3500kg arriving in New Zealand are now used imports – 178 used v 555 new in the first quarter this year..
53 used heavy trucks crossed our wharves in March, with 65 and 52 arriving in February and January.
The total of 178 used import trucks over 3500kg that arrived in the first quarter, is well up on the 123 that were landed in the same period last year, and the 43 that arrived in Q1 2011.
Meanwhile light commercial arrivals – light trucks, vans and utes – continue to pour into the country in numbers not seen since prior to the global financial crisis.
New light commercial arrivals soared to 1763 vehicles last month, compared with 1341 in February and 950 in January.
Used import light commercials crossed our wharves in more steady numbers – 338 in March, 393 in February and 257 in January.
The new light commercial total of 4054 units arriving in the first quarter this year compares with 3026 in Q1 2012 and 3524 in Q1 2011.
The used light commercial arrivals total of 988 this quarter is more than double the 420 that were landed in Q1 2012 – and the 433 landed in Q1 2011.
