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Miniclipper Logistics has taken delivery of two new DAF LF260 18-tonne diesel 4×2 curtainsiders as it continues to re-shape its 70-strong truck and trailer fleet for the future. It is the first time the DAF brand has made it onto the solus MAN Miniclipper fleet but following an urgent need to grow its urban delivery…

In what is one of the largest and most significant deployments of zero emission trucks in the UK to date, 20 DAF LF Electric vehicles are entering service with a range of public bodies including the National Health Service (NHS) and Local Authorities, as part of the Battery Electric Truck Trial (BETT) funded by Department…

The New Generation DAF XG⁺ has been awarded ‘Best UK Diesel Tractor’ at the Fleet News Awards ’22. At the same occasion, the jury crowned the DAF LF ‘Best Two-axle Lightweight Rigid Truck’ and the DAF CF ‘Best Rigid Truck’. It is the fifth year in succession in which DAF Trucks has picked-up top honours…

It seems that electric trucks are not just future pie in the sky, market leader, DAF Trucks has started to roll out training for electrical vehicles across their network of dealers. They are waiting for deliveries of right-hand-drive LF Electric and CF Electric vehicles for UK customers in the coming weeks. The training is being…

If you think that we don’t make trucks in this country, think again.  The US, PACCAR-owned Leyland Trucks is churning out every DAF truck in the range at a pace. So much so that the Lancashire-based manufacturer has celebrated the production of its 500,000th vehicle. The half million milestone truck – a 16-tonne GVW DAF…

Leyland Trucks is to participate in a project designed to help UK operators make the transition to battery electric trucks. A total of 20 DAF LF Electric 19-tonne rigids, together with the required charging infrastructure, will be fitted with data logging equipment and used to support the UK Government’s Department for Transport (DfT) efforts to…

The first ‘Innovation and Technology in Transport’ show finally took place at the end of June at Farnborough airport. The show had been postponed thanks to Covid pandemic, but was well worth waiting for.  DAF used the show as their opportunity to get their new XG range of long distance cabs in front of the…

A pair of new DAF LF Tankers have made their way to South-west fuel oil and lubricants supplier, Ford Fuels.  The company has been a confirmed DAF buyer for over ten years. Two new 18-tonne DAF LF 260s join 11 further rigids which entered service last year, adding to the majority of DAF vehicles in…

If a company’s sole business is to supply support services, you would expect it to know a thing or two about providing support.  So it is high praise indeed when specialist support-vehicle provider to the TV and film industry, Facilities by ADF, praises their local DAF dealer to such an extent that they have decided…

Daf will start to manufacture their fully electric, 19-tonne LF at their factory in Leyland from May this year. With a payload & body allowance of 11.7 tonnes, this compares favourably with a 18-tonne CF. With a 5.4m wheelbase, a diesel-engine CF300 (220kW) weighs in at 6,762kgs giving a body and payload allowance of 11,238kgs…

Not only are DAF runaway UK market leaders in truck sales, they are the only business that assembles trucks here.  Leyland Trucks is the PACCAR-owned facility that makes almost all right hand drive DAF trucks in the world. So, it is great news that the company has announced that they have just seen the 200,000th…

With all the COVID news and the U.S. Presidential election shenanigans bombarding us by the minute, Brexit news takes a poor third place at the moment.  Nonetheless it will be upon us shortly and the Government is due to announce details of any deal (or lack of one) to be made by the 15th October….

While the country is basking in temperatures above 30 degrees, there are businesses preparing for the colder weather to come. One such company is Econ Engineering Ltd. – the UK’s largest manufacturer of gritters and salt spreading vehicles.  They have taken delivery of eight new DAF LF 260 ‘Construction’ 4×2 rigid dry-spreaders with the extended…

The safety of our roads continues to improve as truck manufacturers roll out improvements to their safety systems. Going back just a decade or so it would have seemed science fiction that a truck could detect what’s ahead and decide whether a moving or stationary object was going to be in the way.  Add to…

If you run a vehicle breakdown recovery business, then you can’t afford unreliability in your own fleet.  That is why Recovery North West replaced a mixture of truck brands with six new DAF Trucks.  The acquisition consisted of four DAF XF and a pair of LF rigids.  Three of the XF trucks were 4×2 tractor…

There have been some surprising achievements arising out of the COVID-19 crisis. As a country we have built a series of intensive care hospital in a matter of days, some with as many as four thousand beds. Another example appeared this week from DAF Truck dealer, MOTUS Commercials who worked with a series of partners…

The manufacturer of DAF Trucks in UK, Leyland Trucks has won the Queen’s award for enterprise for 2020 in the International Trade category.  In addition to the manufacture of the full range of DAF Trucks for the UK market in right hand drive, the plant also produces trucks for export overseas. If such public gatherings…

The European Whole Vehicle Type Approval (EWVTA) initiative that was introduced a number of years back appears to have been good news for DAF Trucks and the US assembly unit, Leyland Trucks.  The EWVTA initiative meant that it was no longer just the chassis of the truck that had to be approved, but the chassis…