NAICS 336211Canadian industry · 6-digitinternational market

Motor vehicle body manufacturing

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing truck, bus, and other motor vehicle bodies. These establishments purchase the chassis or semi-complete vehicle and manufacture the rest of the body, thereby completing the vehicle, or manufacture bodies and cabs for sale separately. The manufacture of specialty vehicles is included in this Canadian industry, when made from purchased chassis. These may be manufactured on heavy-duty chassis, such as street-sweepers and fire-fighting vehicles, or on light-duty chassis, such as stretch limousines, ambulances and kit cars. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 124
Under 10 employeesA: 28%
Establishments · USA: 818
Employment · USA: 54,669
Payroll · USA: $3.1B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–42218%

5–91310%

10–191613%

20–493730%

50–992016%

100–199108%

200–49965%

500+0—

Of 124 Canadian establishments with employees, 28% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario4536%

Quebec2923%

Alberta1915%

British Columbia1310%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 336, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

international competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 336 Transportation equipment manufacturing

A tiered supply chain in which price is dictated downward. The reachable ends are specialty vehicles, trailers, truck bodies and aftermarket.

Who sets the price: A few OEMs, through tiered supply contracts.
The software it runs on: Automotive and aerospace quality systems, supplier portals, product lifecycle management.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3362 Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3362

Truck Body & Trailer ManufacturingStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

A plant business on a freight cycle, and the cycle is presently against it. Wabash National — the one listed pure-play — turned $1.54B in 2025, down from $1.95B in 2024, and closed the year with a 12-month backlog of $576M against $813M a year earlier and a total backlog of $705M against $1,169M [B]. That is a roughly 40% collapse in visible forward work while fleets defer capital spending. Wabash is put at about 7.0% of US truck-trailer manufacturing revenue [C], which implies an industry near $22B [derived] shared with Great Dane, Utility Trailer and Trailmobile. Entry means a welding and assembly plant, a dealer network and working capital through exactly this kind of trough. The reachable adjacency is upfitting and service bodies at small scale, which needs a shop rather than a plant, and which this record does not screen.

NAICS 33624 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Automotive and aerospace quality systems, supplier portals, product lifecycle management.

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Alongside this industry

This is the most specific level NAICS defines. The other industries under 33621 are its nearest neighbours.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
336212	Truck trailer manufacturing	166	screened at 3362
336215	Motor home, travel trailer and camper manufacturing	90	screened at 3362