DAF Trucks
Flexible rear-steer DAF helps raise productivity at Speedy
The ability of a new DAF drawbar outfit to carry several pieces of plant or large site cabins, to self load/unload, and to get in and out of tight spots more easily is bringing increased productivity to plant hire specialists Speedy.
Dual role for new DAFs at St Helens Council
Gritting trucks are a welcome sight when Arctic conditions start to bite. But having the high value vehicles lying idle for the rest of the year doesn’t go down so well with council tax payers.
New DAF for firm that is interwoven with textile trade
Few transport companies can be so entwined with a single industry as much as Lynda’s Transport of Huddersfield is with the textile trade. It moves material through every stage of production from raw wool to the finest quality finished worsteds and has done so since the firm was formed by Lynda Porter over 30 years ago.
Carnegie Fuels take first DAF into tanker fleet
It was a challenging start for a new DAF LF55 that recently joined the fleet of Carnegie Fuels of Brechin in Angus. Peak demand for heating oils coincided with the worst early winter conditions that Scotland had experienced for years.
Factory bodied DAFs prove very affordable for window makers
The leading trade manufacturer of UPVC windows in the North West has replaced the bulk of its delivery fleet with 16 DAF LF45s with factory-fitted boxvan bodies.
DAF LF Hybrid enters production
As one of the leading European truck manufacturers, DAF has started production of its hybrid distribution truck. The DAF LF Hybrid uses a parallel diesel/electric hybrid system, where the truck is driven by the diesel engine, the electric engine or a combination of both.
DAF expands its CF range
DAF has expanded its popular CF85 series with two four-axle rigid chassis vehicles. Both models feature three rear axles — the middle one driven and the front one steered. On the new FAK CF85, the last axle is a trailing axle and on the FAQ CF85 a steered trailing axle.
DAF dealers open Authorised Testing Facilities
Authorised Testing Facilities (ATFs) will have been opened at two DAF dealers by the end of the year with a further five scheduled to be operating by the end of February 2011.
Longley Farm meet LEZ rules with new DAFs
With many deliveries of its award-winning yoghurts, creams and cheeses made within the London LEZ, Yorkshire’s Longley Farm needed to ensure that it could not only meet the current emission standards but ‘future proof’ itself for several years. To do this it’s put a pair of DAF CF65 18-tonners into service that feature the 6.7 litre Euro 5 compliant GR165 engine.
Four axle DAF offers flexibility to plant hire firm
Considerable flexibility in the use of a new DAF that recently entered service with Fife company Robert Purvis Plant Hire Limited has come from the ability to alter the body from a beavertail to a full flatbed and by fitting a high capacity crane.
DAFs are made to measure for Cormar Carpets
With over one million customers a year to supply, Cormar Carpets runs a highly intensive nationwide delivery operation using swap bodies for efficiency and flexibility.
Tayside gears up for winter with new DAF gritters
They’re already gearing up for winter in Scotland where the 140,000 citizens of Dundee can expect well-gritted and snow-free streets thanks to the arrival of three new DAF based gritter-snowploughs.
3663 goes two-pedal with new DAFs
The UK’s leading foodservice company, 3663, has put 46 DAF CF65s into service fitted with the AS-tronic automated transmission.
DAF puts the LF Hybrid truck into production
DAF will start production of the DAF LF Hybrid, a 12 tonne distribution truck with a parallel hybrid system, before the year is out. This follows a comprehensive field test where vehicles have been tested for two years in the most diverse practical applications in daily use with customers in Great Britain and on the Continent.
DAF XF105s for Moorhouse
Long established Yorkshire operator Tom Moorhouse & Son Ltd has replaced a dozen DAF XF95’s with a baker’s dozen of its ‘Truck of the Year’ successor, the XF105.