Mexico’s truck factories find footing after rough start to 2026

Mexico's heavy-duty motortruck manufacturing assemblage posted its strongest export show of 2026 successful May, offering signs of stabilization aft a sluggish commencement to the year.

Mexico produced 14,543 heavy-duty trucks and buses successful May, down 0.6% twelvemonth implicit year, portion exports totaled 11,938 units, an 8.5% diminution compared with May 2025, according to information released by Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).

Despite the yearly twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth decline, manufacture leaders pointed to improving momentum. Exports climbed from astir 5,000 units successful January to astir 12,000 units successful May, making May the strongest period of the twelvemonth for some accumulation and exports, according to Rogelio Arzate, enforcement president of Mexico's National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor-Trailer Producers (Anpact).

"May has been our champion period of the twelvemonth successful presumption of accumulation and exports," Arzate said during a quality league connected June 9.

US remains ascendant export marketplace

The U.S. continued to predominate request for heavy-duty vehicles assembled successful Mexico.

From January done May, Mexico exported 45,530 heavy-duty vehicles, down 18.4% compared with the aforesaid play successful 2025. Of those exports, 42,078 units — oregon 92.4% — were shipped to the U.S. Canada accounted for 2,108 units, portion Colombia received 817 vehicles.

Arzate said Mexico exported heavy-duty vehicles to 13 countries during the archetypal 5 months of the year, but the U.S. remains by acold the industry's astir important market. He noted that exports to Colombia, Guatemala and Ecuador person shown maturation this year, helping diversify Mexico's lawsuit base.

For May alone, exports to the U.S. totaled 11,043 units, down 9.1% from the aforesaid period past year, according to Anpact.

The 16 members of Anpact successful Mexico are Freightliner, Kenworth, Navistar, Hino, International, DINA, MAN SE, Mercedes-Benz, Isuzu, Scania, Shacman Trucks, Foton, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Daimler Buses Mexico and Volkswagen Buses.

Freightliner was the apical motortruck shaper and exporter successful Mexico successful May, producing 9,348 trucks, a 14 year-over-year increase. The motortruck shaper exported 8,775 units during the month, a 10.7% year-over-year decrease.

International Trucks Inc. was the No. 2 shaper and exporter during May, manufacturing 3,519 trucks, a 20.4% year-over-year decrease. The motortruck maker's exports fell 34.1% year-over-year to 2,926 units during the month.

Production astir matches 2025 levels

Heavy-duty conveyance accumulation totaled 14,543 units successful May, including 14,117 cargo trucks and tractors and 426 rider buses. Production was fundamentally level compared with the aforesaid period a twelvemonth ago, declining lone 0.6%.