With just one month of 2025 to go Australia’s heavy vehicle market is set to record its third best calendar year of sales on record.
The Truck Industry Council’s T-Mark Database report released this week shows there were 3,810 new deliveries of light, medium and heavy trucks and commercial vans for November.
This was down 11.9 percent (-512 vehicles), over November last year, a percentage reduction in line with sales trends for the year. It comes off the back of record results in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Truck Industry Council CEO Tony McMullan says while new truck sales have not been as strong this year, compared to 2023 and 2024, they have remained resilient throughout 2025.
“2025 has thus far seen a reduction in new truck sales when compared to the two preceding, record breaking, years,” McMullan says.
“There have been multiple factors that have worked against sales in 2025, the most influential is no doubt the general economic conditions across most business sectors in Australia, that have remained weak throughout the year.
“Another contributing factor is the Australian Design Rule (ADR) change from ADR80/03 (Euro V) to ADR80/04 (Euro VI), that happened in quarter four this year.
“A number of truck manufacturers have struggled with supply chain issues in recent months as a result of this ADR change. This has affected the supply of some truck models.
“However, despite these challenges, the market remains on track for around 45,000 new truck and van sales in 2025.
“Sales over 44,379 would result in 2025 being the third best ever sales result recorded for the heavy vehicle market in Australia.”
Heavy duty
In terms of the market segments, the heavy duty trucks, prime movers, have experienced the largest slowdown in volumes this year, year-on-year.
In November 1,243 trucks were delivered, down 144 trucks over the 1,387 trucks sold in November 2024, representing a 10.4 per cent reduction for the month.
Overall the Heavy segment trails last year’s results by a greater amount, 18.4 per cent. In vehicle numbers that is 2,739 less heavy trucks sold than to the end of November in 2024.
Medium Duty
The Medium Duty truck segment delivered 464 trucks in November. This is a 34 per cent decline on sales compared to November 2024 – equating to 239 less trucks sold.
Year to date the Medium Duty segment is down 1,199 trucks on last year’s sales, or 16.2 per cent.
Light Duty
In the Light Duty category there was upside last month with sales up slightly in November 2025 compared to November 2024.
In all, 1,263 Light Duty trucks were delivered in November this year, eight more than were recorded for the same month in 2024.
Looking at the whole year the Light Duty segment is down 6.5 per cent on deliveries compared to the same period last year with 12,529 Light Duty Trucks sold this year between January 1 and November 30. This is 866 less trucks and for January 24 to November 24.
Vans
Light Duty van sales of 840 vehicles in November 2025 was down by 137 vans, or 14 per cent on November 2024.
Year-to-date the Light Duty van segment is fairing a little better, trailing 2024 sales by 8.0 percent. In terms of sales that is 839 less vans. A total of 9,670 vans have been delivered thus far in 2025, compared with 10,509 van sales to the end of November 2024.
In terms of the top five brands at the end of November, across all categories, Isuzu has 27.9 per cent of the market, Hino has 10.3 per cent, Fuso – 7.8 per cent, Kenworth – 7.5 per cent, and Volvo – 5.2 per cent.