In 2024, three of four main truck market segments increased to register a total of 124,933 trucks sold, a 15.65% increase over the 108,024 trucks sold in 2023, according to statistics provided by Anfavea.

DAF Trucks UK has been the market leader in the UK truck (trucks >6t) market for 30 years.

Eduardo Freitas, vice president of Anfavea, said: “We had a special year in 2024 for bus and coach chassis production, with the 34.7% increase was driven by the urban segment, which grew 41.3%, and the intercity segment, which grew by 5.4%.”

The light and medium truck segment, up to 10.5 tons gvw bucked the trend by increasing 6.2%.

Trucks sales in 2024 fell by 3.5%, whereas bus and coach sales declined steeply by 32.8%.

Truck sales at 15,308 units in 2024 was the second highest in the ten last years.

Truck market down by 2.5%, while van, bus and coach sales slip 9.3%.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in Vietnam continued to recover in the third quarter of 2024, with sales growing by 21%.

Sales of commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in Thailand continued to plunge in the third quarter of 2024, by 45% to 45,111 units.

The commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw continued to decline sharply in the third quarter of 2024, by almost 19% to 43,267 units from an already weak 53,150 sales a year earlier.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw declined by over 17% to 16,517 units in the third quarter of 2024 from strong year-earlier sales of 19,966 units.

Commercial vehicle sales over 2 tons gvw improved by 12% to 34,394 unit in the third quarter of 2024, compared with the same quarter a year earlier when volumes plunged by 27% to 30,664 units.