According to the marketing agency NAPI, there are 560.9 thousand vehicles in the population of special purpose vehicles on the truck chassis* as of January 1, 2026. The special purpose vehicle population accounts for 15.2% of the truck* population.
Tankers (159.2 thousand units) and truck cranes (123.5 thousand units) have the largest shares in the population. They account for 28.4% and 22.0%, respectively. Garbage trucks (41.6 thousand units) and combined road vehicles (41.3 thousand units) account for 7.4% of the population each.
Moreover, the special purpose vehicle population includes more than 30 thousand concrete mixers (6.6%) and fuel tankers (5.4%), more than 15 thousand tow trucks (3.0%) and short loggers each (2.7%), as well as more than 10 thousand vacuum vehicles (2.4%) and lifting trucks (2.1%).
TOP-10 vehicle types account for 87.4% of the special purpose vehicle population.
*vehicles with GVW of over 6 tons
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