Equipment Finance News Looks To Work Truck Solutions for Industry Insights
(Work Truck Solutions: Chico, CA) — Equipment Finance News (EFN), a publication at the nexus of dealer and lender news, recently interviewed Kathryn Schifferle, founder and Chief Vision Officer at Work Truck Solutions, about commercial vehicle data for Q2 2025.
The EFN article reporting on the data states:
“A resilient construction sector and opportunistic lenders boosted new vocational vehicle sales in the second quarter, but dealers are still flush with inventory.
New work truck and van sales at dealerships jumped 35% year over year and 12.5% quarter over quarter in Q2, according to a report by dealer service provider Work Truck Solutions. That followed a 9.1% YoY increase and an 11% QoQ decrease in Q1.
The sales surge was attributed to the wide range of vocational vehicles needed to support strong construction activity, Work Truck Solutions founder and Chief Vision Officer Kathryn Schifferle told Equipment Finance News. Utility vans and trucks, for instance, are “used for so many different vocations,” she said.
‘This is a stable industry,” she said. There are “increases in housing starts, road construction, money that’s going to infrastructure. … There’s constant growth of vocational things that we need in our daily lives — landscaping, HVAC, solar installation.’
Uncertainty over tariffs also led to pull-ahead purchases in Q2, according to the report.”
