Stellantis Mexico announced the rollout of the first Ram 1500 produced at the new Saltillo Truck Light Duty Plant , marking a new stage in the company’s manufacturing strategy in the country.

“The rollout of this first unit at our new plant demonstrates the capability, dedication, and skilled Mexican workforce. This production reaffirms our commitment to Mexico and to our employees, who make it possible for every vehicle assembled at this plant to meet the highest quality standards,” said Carlos Rivera, Vice President of Manufacturing at Stellantis Mexico.

The unit is a Ram 1500 4×4 Crew Cab Bighorn, destined for the domestic market , and was assembled to the highest quality standards. With this addition, Stellantis expands its production capacity, adding local manufacturing to its export production.

The production of this model in Mexico aims to consolidate the complex as a key point within the global operation . The focus includes serving the domestic market, in addition to maintaining its position as an exporting country.

The announcement aligns with the company’s vision of continuing to invest in Mexico. The strategy includes creating jobs and expanding operations to meet domestic market demand.

Stellantis Mexico has been operating since 1938 and has more than 17,000 employees in three regions of the country . Its facilities include a Parts Distribution Center in Toluca and eight production plants in Mexico City, the State of Mexico, and Coahuila.

During 2025, according to the Administrative Registry of the Automotive Industry of Light Vehicles of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), 266,027 units of Stellantis RAM products were produced in Mexico , with August being the month with the highest production at 27,050 units.

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In light of the imposition of 25% tariffs on imported vehicles manufactured in Mexico by the United States, public policies must be adjusted to consolidate the domestic market with more affordable options, said Guillermo Rosales Zárate , executive president of the Mexican Association of Automobile Dealers (AMDA) .

“This isn’t about abandoning the high-quality manufacturing and export profile, but rather about satisfying domestic demand for vehicles with more affordable options that meet the needs of a much broader population,” Rosales emphasized.

During the presentation of the book Automotive Industry in Mexico: History of the production, distribution and export of vehicles in the Chamber of Deputies , he specified that clear rules and incentives for local purchasing and production are required to boost domestic consumption of automobiles, because 80 % of the manufacturing in this industry is exported and of this percentage, 70% is sent to the United States.

In his speech, he supported the negotiations being conducted by President Claudia Sheinbaum ‘s government regarding the tariffs announced by Donald Trump , the president of the country’s northern neighbor.

The AMDA executive president invited legislators to continue discussing the tax revenue collected by the automotive industry, suggesting that adjusting it could help boost the domestic market.

“Since 2008, the deduction for new vehicles has been capped at 175,000 pesos over five fiscal years; with this year’s update, the amount should be 450,000 pesos,” he recalled.

Rosales believed it would be beneficial to implement this tax break in the Mexico Plan, which Sheinbaum is promoting as part of the country’s shift in export profile toward Made in Mexico.

In the sense of boosting the domestic market, he recalled the case of Brazil, a country that closed the first quarter of 2025 with a production of half a million units with a very similar local sale , while in the same period Mexico produced more than 973 thousand units , of which it exported 80% (776 thousand vehicles) and, the domestic market, even with good sales results in the reference period, was barely more than 370 thousand vehicles .

“What does this tell us? That Brazil, with a market and population almost double that of Mexico, has a production that barely reaches half of ours. Why? Because in Brazil, almost 80% of its production is for the domestic market, and the little it exports goes to the rest of Latin America. Very little of Brazilian production is sent to the most demanding markets, where Mexican vehicles have a reputation for the best quality in the world,” he emphasized.

Along these lines, he called on President Sheinbaum to end the regulation of automobile smuggling as another measure to improve the domestic market. He noted that through this measure, more than three million foreign units have been legalized so far.

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The National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Producers (ANPACT)  announced that during 2024 the heavy vehicle manufacturing industry sold 66,455 units wholesale (cargo and passenger) in Mexico , a figure that represented an increase of 23.2% compared to the previous year, when 53,932 vehicles were sold. The results exceeded the expectations set forth by the organization itself for the cycle that just ended.

As anticipated by Rogelio Arzate, executive president of ANPACT, 2024 was seen as a historic period for the placement of heavy vehicles, motivated by the economic dynamism, but also by the pre-purchase effect that could be manifested by the change in regulations on engine emissions (NOM-044), which is in force as of 2025.

As with the wholesale figures, in the case of retail, 57,106 cargo and passenger units were totaled, which represented an increase of 11.2% compared to 2023. In the cargo segment, 48,536 vehicles were reached, an increase of 12.5%, according to the organization.

This situation shows, based on ANPACT figures, that the 2024 record is the best since 2014 and marked a historic record. In the analysis carried out by T21 Business Intelligence, it is obtained that the wholesale figures exceed by 1.5x (times) the record of 2016, the best before the pandemic. Meanwhile, in the retail record, the data for the year just ended were 1.3x above the sales of 2016.

Tractor trucks push cargo

In both wholesale and retail sales, in the cargo segment, tractor-trailer sales have the highest share, with a share of 55% and 54.7%, respectively.

In the case of wholesale, sales in the cargo segment reached 56,835 units , of which tractor trucks contributed 31,233 vehicles, this represented an increase of 25.1% and 32.8%, respectively.

In terms of retail sales, cargo sales totaled 48,536 trucks, of which 26,528 were tractor-trailers, with an increase of 12.5% ​​and 18%, respectively.

ANPACT’s prospects are exceeded

As every year, before the end of 2023, ANPACT prepared its outlook for market performance for 2024, by vehicle class and by wholesale and retail sales.

Once 2024 is over, it is identified that in wholesale sales the market performance exceeded the expectations of the entire industry by 34.6%, in cargo they were exceeded by 36.4% and in tractor trucks by 42.7 percent.

In the analysis carried out, it is located that the ANPACT outlook for retail sales was exceeded by 19.4% in the industry as a whole, while in cargo sales exceeded the organization’s forecast by 19.8%, while tractor-trailer sales were 24.6% above.

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During the ninth month of 2024, wholesale sales of cargo vehicles totaled four thousand 469 units in Mexico, an increase of 19.4% compared to September 2023 , according to the National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Producers (ANPACT) in its latest statistical report.

Of the total accumulated, 55.5% corresponded to fifth-wheel tractor-trailers, with 2,481 units sold, a figure 28.1% higher than what was sold in the same month of 2023.

Class 8 trucks accounted for 30.4% of sales in September, with 1,363 units, which meant an increase of 33.5% compared to September of last year.

The third segment with the highest sales were class 6 trucks, which sold 304 units in the ninth month of 2024, corresponding to 6.8% of total sales. It should be noted that this segment reported a 24.6% decline compared to accumulated sales in 2023 when 403 vehicles were sold.

In the cumulative period from January to September 2024, sales of cargo vehicles increased by 13.9% compared to the same period in 2023. During the current year, 37,678 vehicles were sold, which corresponds to 4,609 more vehicles than last year.

At the end of the third quarter of the year, three segments experienced positive figures, while the remaining three assumed declines. In the first case, fifth-wheel tractor-trailers led sales with 21,203 vehicles that contributed to growth of 23.9% compared to the cumulative figure of last year.

In turn, Class 8 trucks increased their demand by 9.8% with the sale of 10,200 units. Third place was occupied by Class 7 trucks with 306 units sold, which contributed to the 19.1% growth in the referred period.

On the other hand, the segments with the greatest contraction were class 5 trucks, which fell 19.1%, selling 650 units from January to September 2024. Meanwhile, class 4 vehicles reached sales of 2,601 units, a downward variation of 6.5 percent. Finally, sales of class 6 trucks contracted 3.9%, with a figure of 2,718 units.

Retail sales are progressing at a good pace

ANPACT revealed that 4,052 retail cargo units were sold during September of this year. Of these, a total of 2,263 corresponded to fifth-wheel tractor-trailers, which increased 24.6% vs. 2023.

In turn, Class 8 trucks managed to sell 1,173 units, this figure contributed to a 7.0 percent increase in sales. In this same category, Class 5 trucks increased their sales by 24.2% with a cumulative total of 82 units in the ninth month of the year.

In contrast, Class 7 trucks experienced a 40.7% contraction, going from 27 units in 2023 to 16 in 2024. The same case was observed in Class 4 trucks, which lost 27.1% of sales vs. 2023, reaching 221 units in the ninth month of 2024. Finally, Class 6 trucks went from 330 units in 2023 to 297 in 2024, which meant a contraction of 10.0 percent.

The ANPACT report also stated that in the cumulative period from January to September 2024, heavy vehicle sales totaled 34,714 units, which represented an increase of 9.3% in sales.

It is noteworthy that, unlike wholesale sales, retail sales in Mexico reported positive figures from January to September in all cargo vehicle segments , behaving as follows:

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The wholesale sale of heavy vehicles reports a constant increase, as reflected in the latest statistical report of the National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Producers (ANPACT) , which announces that the sale of cargo vehicles increased 34.3% during August 2024 compared to the same month last year .

Thus, in the reference month, 5,543 heavy vehicles were sold, a total of 1,417 more units than in 2023. During the eighth month of the year, the segment that represented the greatest dynamism was Class 5 with an increase of 64.8%, going from 71 units to 117 vehicles in the current year.

Wholesale sales are deliveries made by plants and original equipment manufacturers to the distributor network.

In terms of volume, the fifth-wheel tractor segment sold 3,126 units, which represented an increase of 56.4% compared to the 1,999 vehicles sold in August of last year.

Class 8 ranked third in terms of development with a 20.6% growth, selling 1,529 vehicles , a total of 261 more units compared to the eighth month of last year. Class 4 also experienced a slight increase of 0.3% with the sale of 355 vehicles, one more unit than in 2023.

Class 7 vehicles , on the other hand, decreased by 24.1%, going from 29 units in the eighth month of 2024 to 22 in the same month last year. Finally, the Class 6 subsegment reported a decline of 2.7% with 394 vehicles, 11 units less than last year.

It is important to note that the NOM-044 diesel engine emissions update is scheduled for January 2025, so only the Euro 6 / EPA-10 binomial will be in force, so wholesale sales are a reflection of the adjustment expected in the market from the distributor network, to have the largest possible volume of units that can still incorporate the Euro 5 / EPA-07 binomial.

In turn, in the cumulative period from January to August 2024, wholesale sales of heavy vehicles totaled 33,209 units . This figure revealed an advance in sales in the domestic market of 13.2%, compared to the 29,326 vehicles sold in the same period last year.

In the period referred to, the subsegment that represented the greatest growth was fifth-wheel tractors with a 23.4% increase in sales, totaling 18,722 units, 3,550 units more than the same period of the previous year.

The second subsegment that reported progress was class 7 with 278 units sold, which meant an increase of 16.8% compared to 2023 when 238 vehicles were sold. For its part, class 8 advanced 6.9% by selling 8,837 units, a total of 567 more than in August 2024.

In contrast, Class 5 reported the largest contraction in August 2024 with 23.5% fewer sales than the eighth month of last year, with a total of 168 fewer vehicles, going from 716 in 2023 to 548 in 2024.

In turn, in class 4, 2,410 vehicles were sold, a decrease of 3.8% compared to last year. Finally, class 6 reported wholesale sales of 2,414 vehicles, 0.4% less than from January to August 2023 .

Retail sales at a different speed

According to ANPACT data, retail sales, i.e. sales from distributors to end customers, showed a different dynamic. In August, retail sales totaled 4,531 units, which represented an increase of 10% compared to the same month in 2023.

Tractor trucks , the vehicle class that contributed the most in volume, reached a sales of 2,341 units , an increase of 5.7% compared to the comparison period. Class 8 , meanwhile, showed a different dynamic, totaling 1,340 vehicles , which represents 25.1% more than in 2023.

In accumulated sales in 2024, the retail cargo sector reached 30,662 vehicles, which represented 9% above the January-August 2023 cycle.

Tractor-trailer sales total 16,450 vehicles, 9.2% more than in 2023; while Class 8 displaced 8,208 trucks, 11.2% above the comparative cycle.

Retail sales have not yet shown the pre-purchase effect referred to by the presence of NOM-044 in January 2025, which could be seen in the coming months.

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At a very early age, Adrián Gallegos, current Commercial Director of Gallegos Trailers and member of the ninth generation of Los 21 Jóvenes de T21 , began his career in the family business in the warehouse area, a place where he cut his teeth and where he also flourished. his passion for the freight transportation industry.

Once graduated, he took the reins of the commercial area of ​​the company dedicated to the manufacture and repair of trailers and semi-trailers for cargo transportation , but his interests have also extended to many other areas of the company. Although Gallegos Trailers has a good work team, for Adrián it is important to be fully involved in the business.

For him, one of the company’s greatest leaps throughout its history has been doubling its production capacity, going from two manufacturing plants that manufactured around 150 units per month, to four plants that today allow Gallegos Trailers meet the needs of transporters .

“Currently in our plant number three we manufacture dry boxes and platforms, in addition, we started the year with a new line for manufacturing refrigerated boxes that joined the Gallegos Trailers product portfolio. In turn, the fourth plant, which was opened a few months ago, is dedicated to the manufacturing of aluminum products, which will strengthen our production capacity, along with plant two, which is also dedicated to this product,” he explained in an interview. Gallegos.

Currently the company has the installed capacity to manufacture 350 trailers per month, however, with the entry into operations of the fourth plant this will increase to 500 per month in the short term.

“ The plan by the end of the year is to reach 700 units that will be distributed in Mexico, the United States, Central and South America . It should be noted that in 2023 we will open a distribution center in Laredo, Texas, with the aim of providing confidence to our American customers,” Gallegos reported.

The Canadian markets are joined by the aforementioned markets; to date Gallegos Trailers already has permits to send equipment, since they already comply with all the documentation. “We have realized that this market has a lot of potential, that is why we have adhered to the required regulations and we have even decided to standardize these for the American market because the Canadian market is much more demanding,” he said.

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The sale of heavy vehicles (buses, trucks, and tractors) in Mexico is unstoppable.

In April of this year, four thousand three hundred sixty cargo and passenger vehicles were marketed, a figure that represented a 14.8% increase compared to the same month last year, according to the monthly statistical bulletin of the National Association of Bus, Truck, and Tractor Producers (ANPACT).

Of the total sales in the reference month, 87.2% corresponded to cargo vehicles, meaning that three thousand eight hundred three units were placed in the country. By subsegment, fifth-wheel tractors ranked first with one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine units, up 8.9% compared to the same period in 2023.

In turn, class 8 trucks totaled one thousand eighteen units sold, an advance of 35.0% against the same month last year. In third place for sales were class 4 trucks with four hundred one units, representing an increase of 29.8 percent. Class 6 trucks experienced a 23.8% advance compared to the figure from last year, selling three hundred seventeen units.

Regarding class 7, it remained in the same condition as in 2023 with the sale of twenty units in April. On the other hand, the segment that contracted was class 5 with 37.6% fewer sales, dropping from ninety-three in 2023 to fifty-eight in the current year.

With respect to the accumulated total from January to April 2024, sales of heavy vehicles (cargo and passenger) totaled seventeen thousand two hundred forty units, a 7.5% increase compared to the reported period in 2023.

In the first four months of the year, the truck segment recorded the sale of fourteen thousand five hundred fifty-eight vehicles, a 7.1% progress compared to the first four months of the previous year. As for the tractor-trailer subsegment, they accumulated eight thousand two hundred thirty-two units sold, an advance of 18.9% against 2023.

Class 7 experienced a growth of 10.4% in sales from January to April 2024, going from one hundred thirty-four in 2023 to one hundred forty-eight in the current year. On the other hand, class 8 experienced a 1.0% advance with three thousand eight hundred fifty-three vehicles.

During the referenced period, class 5 experienced the greatest setback with 45.9% fewer sales, with two hundred nineteen units sold this year, far from the four hundred five sold in 2023.

On the other hand, class 4 decreased by 9.8%, dropping from one thousand one hundred seventy-three trucks sold in 2023 to one thousand fifty-eight in 2024. Finally, class 6 trucks decreased by 8.0% vs. 2023, placing one thousand forty-eight units in the reference period.

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