ARTSA Institute (ARTSA-i) has released its Q4 2025 heavy vehicle market report.
After three years of considerable growth starting in 2021, total new heavy vehicle registrations had a downturn of -0.6 per cent in the 2024 calendar year and a further 13.4 per cent contraction in 2025.
Prime Movers have shown the largest reduction in the last 12 months of just over 20 per cent with trailers and heavy rigids also experiencing double digit reductions.
Overall, the total new registrations for prime movers, trailers and rigids were just over 40,000 units for 2025 which is on a par with the 2022 calendar year but six to seven thousand units below the peak years of 2023 and 2024.
Last month, ARTSA-i Chair Peter Hart elaborated on the organisation’s task of analysing Australia’s heavy vehicles.
