RACE is an engineering consultancy company and is also T&BB's partner organisation in India.

Strong demand for rigid trucks sees reguistrations grow by 30% across India.

The Covid-19 pandemic decimated bus and coach travel demand in India starting two to three years' ago - the market now for public transport is in recovery.

Sales of light-duty passenger vehicles (7.5 tons and below) enjoyed a resurgence in the FY2022-23 ending March 31, 2023, increasing by 122.1%.

The Indian Government's subsidies for transit buses under the FAME programme has reinited sales.

Strong tractor demand in Q4 helps boost production by similar volumes.

Medium and heavy rigid truck sales in India remain the life blood of the road transport sector - sales improve 5.1% during the final quarter of FY2022-23.

The recovery in India's light-duty bus sector seen late last calender year continued into the last quarter of fiscal year 2022-23.

Sales of LCV goods carrier vehicles (light trucks) of gvw ≤ 7.5t fell by 1.2% in Q4 of FY 2022-23 ending March 31, 2023 compared with same period of FY 2021-22.

Sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t gvw and above) in India increased by 46.3% in the period for April to December of 2022-23 to 181,934 units from 124,367 units in same period of the year 2021-22.

Domestic sales of buses and coaches (7.5t gvw and above) increased by 130.5% in Q3 (October to December) of the financial year 2022-23 (Q3/FY22-23) to register 8,331 units, up from 3,615 units in Q3 of FY 2021-22.

The heavy haulage tractor sector saw sales more than double during April to December of 2022-23 to register 35,334 units compared with 15,794 units in the same period of the previous year (2021-22).