Welcome to the Truckpages DAF Trucks hub page. You will find details of plenty of used DAF Trucks for sale in addition to the latest DAF news and information by simply scrolling through the page.
At Truckpages, we advertise thousands of DAF trucks for sale right across the UK from truck dealers, direct from finance companies and as advertised by the operator.
You will find all models, old and new listed, including models from the early 45 series back in the 1990s to the ultra-modern Euro 6 DAF XF510 tractor units.
DAF trucks are very popular as rigids in the UK and are converted into the most specialist of workhorses, in addition to the run of the mill box trucks. Unlike other used truck portals, you can search for DAF trucks with cranes and even see where your filtered selection of trucks appear on a Google map.
UK market leader, DAF trucks are always the most popular on Truckpages, thanks to their reliability. The workhorses of the British economy, DAF Trucks originally acquired what was left of the UK’s truck and van manufacturing industry back in the 1990’s.
DAF Trucks – Some BackgroundSadly, shortly after the acquisition of Leyland trucks and LDV vans in the early 1990s, DAF found themselves on hard times. This time it was the turn of the hugely profitable American truck business, PACCAR, to help out.
Since the acquisition, DAF Trucks has gone from strength to strength and is now a significant part of the PACCAR business worldwide.
With a head office in the Netherlands and manufacturing facilities worldwide, DAF assembles all trucks for the UK market in the UK at their Leyland manufacturing plant. This means that DAF are the closest thing to a ‘British’ manufacturer of commercial vehicles that we have.
Not all components aer made by DAF, but it is the way in which they are assembled and designed to work together that makes DAF stand out as a truck manufacturer.
The management have a no-nonsense approach to their model range. If it will make money for them and their customers, then they will build it. If either parts of the equation is missing, then it will remain firmly on the drawing board.
DAF’s lightweight truck from 7.5 tonnes to 18 tonnes GVW. The smaller models can be driven on a car licence (if the driver is old enough to have Granddad’s rights…) The LF shares a cab with the Renault Midlum/ Range D – in fact, the DAF LF cab is made in the Renault factory in France. Assembly takes place in the UK for our right hand drive models.
The mid-range cab which is used mainly for local distribution but can also be configured as a sleeper cabbed tractor unit with a high roof for distance haulage. The CF is a favourite with tipper operators.
The largest truck cab in the DAF range – usually seen on UK roads in tractor unit guise, the XF cab originally started out in the DAF 95 back in the 1990’s – although you would never realise it from the modern look of today’s 44-tonne tractor units.
The UK’s market leading truck supplier, DAF Trucks report that all their dealerships are operating according to their normal opening hours and service levels. Anyone reading this will know of the importance of the role of trucks in the UK’s food and medicine distribution, but there is little recognition of the behind the scenes work…
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There is very little clarity in terms of the detail of the Government’s plans. There are plenty of announcements, but it can take days for the detail to catch up with the policy. That is why it is refreshing to see that the MD of DAF Trucks UK, Laurance Drake, has written to all of…
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It’s a bit like buses… There seems to be a lot of news about alternative powered refuse trucks these days. Only a couple of days ago we found ourselves writing about the Gas Mercedes Econic refuse trucks joining Liverpool council’s fleet now along comes the news that DAF have an electric CF that is running…
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There were more new trucks sold in the UK in 2019 than in the two preceding years. With an impressive 48,535 registrations last year, we saw nearly 13% more new trucks appear on our roads than in 2018 after number shrinking for the previous two years. All this despite a series of stalled Brexits and…
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Brand new from Glasgow-based concrete mixer truck manufacturer, McPhee is a 5-pod mortar delivery body suited for 8×4 chassis and 32-tonne operation. The truck has been built in conjunction with mortar supplier Marshalls. The company has been using this type of equipment for some years, but has decided to work with McPhee on the new…
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