Used import trucks continued their climb back to volume selling with 52 trucks over 3.5 tonnes landed here in January.
This is 11 more (up 27%) than the 41 imported 12 months previously.
New trucks over 3.5 tonnes, however, slipped in January with only 169 units landed, compared with 222 a year ago.
It was the under 3.5 tonne category (utes, vans etc) that really came into its own last month – in both new and used commercials.
New light commercials were running hot with 950 units crossing our wharves, compared with 754 in January 2012.
The increase in used import light commercials was even more dramatic – up from 77 a year ago to 257 this January.
The tally included 89 diesel vans and 21 diesel utes, plus 123 petrol-engined vans and 24 petrol utes.
