Australian Truck Fleet Atlas
Registered truck counts by state, class, manufacture year, make and model, including a transparent replacement-pressure measure.
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Published research
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Each monitor keeps registered fleets, monthly market-entry activity, buyer type and finance demand as separate measures. Current releases cover trucks, utes, caravans and camper trailers.
Private Truck Market Monitor
Rolling 12-month new-supply activity, fleet-age context and a transparent explanation of what open data cannot reveal about private and used purchases.
View private-market signals →Commonwealth Fleet Profile
Owned and leased government fleet composition, indicative asset value and commercial-vehicle mix—with buyer-type limitations stated.
View government fleet →Australian Ute Market Monitor
A conservative identified registered fleet and monthly tracked-model activity index built from a public, versioned ute taxonomy.
Explore ute data →Australian Caravan Market Monitor
Rolling monthly caravan and camper trailer entries, leading makes, tare-weight mix and buyer definitions.
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Publication queue
Next research products
These will be released only when the dataset and methodology support the claim. A chart is not evidence if its denominator is wrong.
AFA Lead Demand Index
Percentage of valid enquiries and requested dollars by asset, finance type, product, state and value band. It will be labelled as AFA demand—not Australian market share.
Read the publication rulesEquipment Investment Pulse
Quarterly ABS equipment, plant and machinery investment by industry and state, separated from finance-originations data.
Inspect the primary sourceEquipment Import Value Tracker
Monthly customs value and quantity for selected trucks, excavators, forklifts, tractors and machinery using an audited HS-code register.
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Why this exists
Useful finance research begins before the loan application
Asset finance decisions are usually discussed as a rate or repayment question. That is incomplete. A buyer also needs to understand the installed fleet, replacement cycle, availability of new assets, concentration by make and model, investment conditions and the difference between an enquiry, an approval and a settled transaction.
Australian source data is fragmented across federal departments, state registries, spreadsheets and industry subscriptions. The AFA Data Lab standardises only the fields that can be reconciled, publishes the calculation rules and refuses to fill missing dimensions with estimates. That makes the resulting charts useful for operators, accountants, dealers, journalists and researchers without turning a directional series into a false claim about market size.
Separate fleet evidence from finance terms
Use fleet age and vehicle-entry trends to understand replacement context, then assess the actual asset age, body, seller, duty cycle, deposit, term and residual. A national trend cannot determine whether a particular truck is productive or financeable.
Cite the measured population
Charts and JSON downloads are designed for attribution. Cite AFA analysis and the underlying primary source, retain the reference period, and do not relabel registered vehicles as sales or requested finance as settled lending.
What we will measure
Different datasets, different denominators
| Measure | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Registered fleet | Vehicles registered at a point in time |
| RAV entries | Vehicles provided to the Australian market |
| Customs import value | Declared value of imported goods |
| Investment | Business expenditure measured by ABS |
| AFA demand | Valid enquiries received by AFA |
Source standard
Use and reuse rules
- Machine-readable source registryLicence, cadence, measured fields and prohibited interpretations.
- AFA data methodologySample thresholds, privacy controls and denominator rules.
- Report a data issueSend the source, disputed number and calculation concern.
Using this research for an asset decision?
Compare the fleet evidence with asset age, duty cycle, purchase channel and a current supplier quote.