Hello friends. Heres the final part of this little series. Its a bit of a long one as I wanted to get this series out the way to make room for the next one. Me, Bertie and my lorry Michelle are at the All Wales Truck Show this weekend in Carmarthen this weekend. My god it is so bloody hot! I don't know how the drivers opposite me spent all day polishing! I was sweating after hal an hour. Anyway I digress, the show will be the subject of a future video so do look out! I will post some pictures of my favourite trucks at the show early next week. And feel free to comment below and let me know what you think. Comments have died down a little on the site and it would be nice to see some more! ONWARD
DAF Review So, one of most common questions I'm asked lately is what I think of the DAF. Obviously for a long time time I've mostly driven Volvos and Scanias and before this job it was well over a decade since I last tramped full time in a DAF (for HSF). As you know though I had driven later models and hated the body XF with a passion! When the current version came out DAF seemed very confidant it would change my mind about them in our Twitter exchanges but I thought how different can it be? The answer? A lot. In some ways its like a completely different truck despite being almost identical in looks. Firstly- the gearbox. The auto on previous DAFs was a fupping disaster and everyone knew it! Show, jerky and just generally rubbish in a way no auto should be this late in the day. That's completely changed, for the vast majority of the time it's indistinguishable from an iShift (that having long been the good standard). Yes it has its odd moments but they are very rare an...
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