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Top 20 Truck manufacturers based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 92 truck manufacturers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 4,218 professional contacts across them, including 677 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers truck manufacturers headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
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The 20 largest truck manufacturers based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ISUZU Motors South Africa (IMSAf) was established on 1 January 2018 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ISUZU Motors Limited.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions, including trucks and buses for heavy transport applications combined with an extensive service portfolio whilst further…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GRW IS A LEADING SOUTH AFRICA BASED TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT DESIGNER, MANUFACTURER, AND SERVICE PROVIDER OF A WIDE RANGE OF QUALITY, CUTTING-EDGE TANKERS AND TRAILERS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Daimler Truck Southern Africa Group of Companies at a glance: Since the invention of the truck over 125 years ago, Daimler Truck AG has been a pioneer in the commercial vehicle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CTS Trailers manufacture truck trailers and tippers including services, repairs, refurbishment & parts sales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ETT has become the preferred supplier of engineered specialised vehicle solutions for industrial, mining and construction OEM distributors and dealers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FAW Vehicle Manufacturers Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd (FAW Southern Africa), is a division of the Fortune 500 FAW China Group Corporation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since established in 2007 our group has grown into a renowned business house situated in Turffontein, South of Johannesburg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ETTC GROUP was established in 1992 and has grown ever since to have established itself as recognisable name in the "truck industry".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alpine Truck & Bus is the official agent for Sinotruk in KwaZulu-Natal, proudly offering a wide range of new trucks built for performance, reliability, and value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Icecold Bodies, situated in Heidelberg, Gauteng, is known as one of the best and most respectable body- and trailer manufacturers in the industry and in Icecold Bodies has grown…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Truck City is all about trucks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UD Trucks offers a full range of heavy duty trucks - Quon and Quester, medium duty trucks - Condor and Croner, and light duty trucks - Kazet and Kuzer, as well as associated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Ithemba Truck Bodies, we specialize in the design, manufacture, repair, and refurbishment of high-quality truck bodies across South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Specialist Turnkey OEM Bus and Commercial Truck Fiberglass and Sheet Metal Body Part Manufacturers” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Conceived in 1995 with a couple of versions of bakkie covers built for friends and family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Prime Trailers manufactures, supplies and services a range of bulk trailers including flatdecks, tautliners, tippers, drawbars and application specific rigs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1984, Grant Gore and Sons and Martin Trailers manufacture a range of quality commercial trailers for both highway and off-highway / mining applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anchor Auto Body Builders can build both standard and specialist truck bodies including panel vans, taut liners, drop-sides, flat decks, people carriers, tankers, tippers, cattle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: truck manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names truck manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of truck manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name truck manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Truck manufacturers based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 92 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among truck manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “truck manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names truck manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among truck manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 677 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names truck manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many truck manufacturers are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 92 truck manufacturers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Isuzu Motors South Africa, headquartered in Port Elizabeth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most truck manufacturers?
Johannesburg leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Boksburg (8) and Port Elizabeth (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 677 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 92 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.