At the end of May 2022, 8,179 units of commercial vehicles were sold in Russia. According to the experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT", according to the results of data processing by JSC "Electronic Passport" (EPTS), this is 27% lower than in April, and 58% worse than in May of the previous year. For the second month in a row, sales of new trucks are higher than those of light commercial vehicles (LCVs).
Thus, for the whole May, 4,284 trucks were purchased in the Russian Federation, which is more than a half (52.4%) of the total sales of commercial vehicles. At the same time, in compare with April, sales of trucks fell by 22%. Also, in the previous month of spring, 3,079 LCV units were purchased in our country, which is 37% worse than in April. But the sale of new buses in May (816 units) remained almost at the same level as a month earlier (817 units).