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Heavy-Duty & Trucks
World’s Most Productive Companies
Heavy-Duty & Trucks
Heavy-Duty and Trucks covers the makers of commercial trucks and buses. Productivity is driven by platform efficiency, build-to-order discipline, and a growing parts and service aftermarket.
The group was about flat in 2025, sitting about 17% above its 2019 baseline. Isuzu, Iveco and PACCAR led as World’s Most Productive Companies. Gains were concentrated in the leaders, with most of the group giving back ground.
Heavy-Duty & Trucks World's Most Productive Companies
Productivity Snapshot
- Heavy-Duty & Trucks ranks second of nine Automotive peer groups in 2025, at an Industrial Productivity Index of 1.17, about 17% above its 2019 baseline.
- 3 of 8 companies grew productivity in 2025.
- They are the group’s World’s Most Productive Companies: Isuzu (1.22), Iveco (1.20), PACCAR (1.20).
- The group held well above its 2019 baseline in 2025 even as the freight cycle softened, with the leading truck makers clustered near the top.
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