DAF Trucks increasingly becomes a globally acting truck brand. After having set up premises in Australia, Brazil and Russia, the Dutch truck manufacturer recently assembled it’s 2000th CF truck on the Isle of Taiwan.DAF sends the trucks as Semi Knocked Down to Taiwan, where the parts are being assembled at Formosa Automobiles Sales Corporation. In…… Continue Reading
The Hongarian company Waberer’s International has signed an order for 600 DAF trucks. Chairman and CEO Gyorgy Waberer espects a double digit grow figure over the coming years for his company. The 600 trucks are devided in 150 CF and 450 XF types. Most of them are Euro 5, but about one third of the…… Continue Reading
Number 3 of BIGtruck online magazine is out now. The third version of this free- online magazine is again filled with story’s, photo’s and Youtube movies. This version is still in Dutch language, but we are working on the first edition in English language! Untill then you can still have a look at the first…… Continue Reading
On the occasion of the 19th international transport exhibition “Fenatran”, which was held in São Paulo, Brazil, Daimler Trucks is announcing a new millions-heavy investment package for the commercial vehicle plants of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil. This happens right after the first Brazilian assembled DAF truck left the brand new Paccar assembly plant in Ponta Grossa. Daimler plans to…… Continue Reading
DAF surprises with special Construction variants of the LF and CF ranges. They will be introduced at Matexpo in Belgium this week. They are not all wheel drive chassis, but adapted chassis for use off road. The new DAF’s are clearly recognisable and feature a new front bumper and grille. More details follow on a…… Continue Reading
Dutch transport company Limpens in Elsloo organised its own Euro-6 comparison test. The company ordered eight trucks of four brands to compare the Euro-6 technic on board. The MAN, Mercedes and DAF truck are 410 Hp versions, the Volvo is 460. Limpens wants trucks round 400 Hp, but Volvo could only deliver the 460 version.…… Continue Reading
The Paccar Group, owner of the brands Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAF has published the results of the seccond quarter of this year. The turnover in Q2 was 4,3 billion Dollar, last year that was 4,46 billion. The proffit went down with 5 million dollar to 292 million. In Europe DAF has a marketshare of 15,8…… Continue Reading
DAF Trucks will increase it’s truck production from 164 trucks per day to 184 trucks by the end of August upcoming. DAF reports increasing interest from customers in it’s newly introduced generation of Euro 6 trucks. To cope with the production increase, DAF looks to reinforce it’s workforce with 200 newly to recruit people. In…… Continue Reading
During the ‘Motor Transport Awards 2013’ in London DAF Trucks got the ‘Fleet Truck of the Year 2013’ Award with the DAF XF105 ATe. For DAF this was the 17th time they won this award, and that is more than any other truckbrand. The jury came to this conclusion because of the comfort and efficiency…… Continue Reading
The production of the new Euro-6 DAF trucks started a few weeks ago, and the first trucks are rolling out now. Here is an example of a fine looking new XF Super Space Cab. It is the new truck of owner/operator Ab de Ruiter from Klundert in Holland. Congratulations with this beauty Ab!… Continue Reading
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