Launch of 'Smile Truck', a Purchasing Business Supporting the Circulation of Working Vehicles: Assisting Logistics and Construction Sites and Local Businesses Through the Redistribution of Trucks, Buses, and Heavy Machinery

Smile Company Inc. (Headquarters: Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture; Representative Director: Shunsuke Yamano; hereinafter 'Smile Company') has launched 'Smile Truck', a purchasing business specialized in trucks, buses, and heavy machinery, starting in January 2026. This business aims not to stop 'working vehicles'—which have been used at sites supporting social infrastructure such as logistics, construction, and transportation—when they finish their current role, but rather to reconnect them to the next site that needs them.

At logistics and construction sites, vehicle replacements occur daily due to changes in the business environment and equipment updates. On the other hand, selling trucks and heavy machinery involves complicated procedures such as selecting an appraisal destination, coordinating pickup schedules, and handling ownership transfers and deregistration, which has become a major burden for site managers and management. Although vehicle disposal is inherently an important management decision directly tied to business continuity and site operations, not just simple asset management, the reality is that the hassle and opacity act as barriers, making it difficult to make optimal choices.

Smile Truck is a service launched to face these voices and issues from the field, alleviating the burden associated with selling vehicles as much as possible, and creating an environment where businesses can focus on the work they should inherently concentrate on. Based on the storeless, on-site visit operational know-how cultivated by Smile Company's used car purchasing franchise 'Smile Cars', we have built a purchasing system specialized in working vehicles such as trucks, buses, and heavy machinery. We respond to free on-site appraisals nationwide, and after carefully checking the condition, equipment, usage, and market needs of each vehicle one by one, we conduct a speedy and appropriate appraisal. It is also possible to complete everything from inquiry to appraisal, pickup, and payment on the same day at the shortest, and by comprehensively handling the ownership transfers, deregistration, and arrangements for various documents required at the time of sale, we significantly reduce the practical burden associated with selling vehicles.

What Smile Truck aims for is not to treat a vehicle that has finished its role as the 'end', but to create a circulation that connects it to the next site after assessing its value. While utilizing our unique overseas sales channels in addition to the domestic market, we will support the asset utilization of businesses by redistributing based on the characteristics and demand of each vehicle, and at the same time, we will deliver vehicles needed by society to the places that need them.

Smile Company will continue to contribute to reducing the burden on businesses, redistributing vehicle value, and facilitating the circulation of vehicles that support social infrastructure in the field of working vehicles, while leveraging the strengths of community-based, visit-type services cultivated in the passenger car sector.