A total of 1,772 of new and 2,429 second hand vehicles were registered with Transport Malta in the first three months of this year.
Answering a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Ċensu Galea, Transport Minister Austin Gatt said that the previous quarter, 1,331 new and 3,045 second hand vehicles were registered.
Dr Gatt said that between 2008 and 2010, there were 583 trucks registered. These had a carrying capacity of more than three and a half tonnes