Trendlines: Construction equipment shifts from wheels to tracks

Chris Sleight

03 February 2026

At the start of the 2000s, the global construction equipment market was split roughly 60:40 wheeled to crawler machines. By the end of this decade, those proportions will be flipped, with tracked machines accounting for 60% of global sales.

The biggest changes over the last 25 years have been in…

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