Registrations of new heavy vehicles – those over 3500kg GVM – in June 2014, mirrored the result in June 2013, with another 25% increase year-on-year.
This means that sales of new trucks in June has risen 50% in the last 24 months, and the market continues to be strong as confidence remains in the economy.
Registrations for the heavy vehicle class hit 427 units last month, up from 342 in June 2013, which was also up from 276 in June 2012.
Market leader Isuzu held on to its overall lead for the year, despite a 17% decrease in year-on-year sales, it registered 97 units in June as opposed to 117 for the previous corresponding period.
Isuzu however still retained 22% market share and leads the market overall with 417 trucks registered year to date, followed by Hino with 342 trucks registered year to date, and Fuso with 303 units registered year-to-date.
Fuso however had a boomer of a June, with 78 sales for 2014 as opposed to 38 in the previous year, an increase of 105% for an 18.3% market share.
Hino had to settle for third place in the table in June with 62 sales, still a good 106% improvement on June 2013, while fourth placed Mercedes-Benz leapt 125% year on year with 27 units registered, and this was equalled by UD Trucks also on 27 units registered, but a 170% year on year increase!
DAF had a 43% increase with 23 units sold in June 2014 as opposed to 16 in the previous corresponding period, while MAN went from six units sold in June 2013 to 21 last month, a whopping 250% increase year on year.
Volvo suffered a minor decline selling 13 units as opposed to 19 in the previous corresponding period, Fiat went up one unit to 12, Kenworth had a good increase to 12 from 9 previously, Scania finished two down 11, and Freightliner went one up on 8 trucks registered for June.
Used imported trucks did not mirror quite the increase of newly imported ones, the market finished 18% ahead of last years figures with 111 trucks sold as opposed to 94 in the previous corresponding period.
Toyota lead the used import truck market with 32 units sold, a 6.7% increase on June 2013, Isuzu went up 71% with 24 trucks registered in June 2014, Nissan had a boomer month with a 300% increase, selling 12 trucks last month as opposed to three in the previous corresponding period.
Mitsubishi finished up up 11 used imported trucks, Hino registered 10, and there were 22 others sold in the market.
Year-to-date used imported truck sales total 668 units, as opposed to 563 in the previous corresponding period.
