73,122 Visitors, 660 Brands, and Nothing Until 2027
Mexico's biggest heavy-truck show closed its last edition with 73,122 visitors and 660 exhibiting brands from 17 countries. It is biennial, so the next one is November 2027.
Mexico's biggest heavy-truck exhibition closed its last edition with 73,122 visitors and 660 exhibiting brands. Those are the numbers behind a show a lot of US operators have never attended, and the reason it is worth putting on a calendar two years out.
Because that is the catch: Expo Transporte ANPACT is biennial. There is no 2026 edition, and the next one is November 10, 11 and 12, 2027 at Expo Guadalajara — a date we already flagged in our roundup of confirmed truck-show dates.
Why the confusion is easy
The last edition was November 12, 13 and 14, 2025, at Expo Guadalajara. Same venue, same week of November — which is exactly why a lot of calendars, including ours, carried those dates forward a year as if the show were annual.
It is not. ANPACT's own site states plainly that the exhibition happens cada dos años — every two years.
What you missed, and what is worth planning for
The 2025 edition closed with numbers that explain why this show matters to anyone hauling in or out of Mexico:
- 73,122 visitors.
- 660 exhibiting brands.
- 17 countries represented among exhibitors — Germany, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Spain, the United States, India, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, Panama, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and Turkey.
- 70,000 square meters of exhibition space, including the new open-air area.
The manufacturers on the floor are the ones you already run or compete against: Dina, Foton, Freightliner, Hino, International, Isuzu, Kenworth, Mack, MAN, Mercedes-Benz Autobuses, Scania, Volkswagen Camiones y Buses, Volvo Buses, Cummins and Detroit Diesel.
How a calendar gets a date wrong without anybody lying
It is worth explaining, because it will happen to you with some other show. A biennial event held in the same week of the same month looks identical to an annual one until you compare two consecutive years. Nothing in the listing says "every two years" — the listing only carries a start date and an end date.
So the error is not somebody inventing a date. It is a date that was correct for 2025 surviving into 2026 because nothing in the format could flag that the year should have skipped.
The practical version of that: a trade-show date is only as good as the last time somebody opened the organizer's site. Aggregators, calendars and event roundups all copy from each other, and the copy has no way to know when the original stopped being true.
Why a US operator should care about a Mexican show
Because the equipment is the same equipment. A Kenworth or an International sold in Guadalajara is built on the same platforms you run north of the border, and the spec differences — engine ratings, emissions packages, axle configurations — are exactly where cross-border operators get surprised.
ANPACT also puts the Mexican side of the freight economy in one room. Mexico's transport sector moves 82% of the country's land freight and generates more than 6% of national GDP, according to the organizers. If any part of your load starts or ends south of the border, that room is where those decisions get made.
What to do with a two-year gap
- Put November 10-12, 2027 in the calendar now, at Expo Guadalajara. Two years out, hotel and flight are the cheap part.
- Do not wait on the show for a purchase decision. A biennial event is a terrible clock for a truck you need this year.
- Use the odd years for the US shows — the schedule is built so they rarely collide.
- Verify any trade-show date against the organizer's own site before booking. Ours was wrong, and we publish these for a living.
While the calendar is quiet, the truck is not. A free +100 point inspection is a better use of a slow November than a trip to a show that is not happening: The Truck Savers, no appointment needed.