DAF's New Generation XG⁺ has been awarded ‘Best UK Diesel Tractor’ at the 2022 Fleet News Awards. The same manufacturer also won the ‘Best Two-axle Lightweight Rigid Truck’ award for the DAF LF, as well as the ‘Best Rigid Truck’ award for the DAF CF.

DAF nets awards hattrick at 2022 Fleet News Awards

Eurotunnel operator Getlink has announced that the amount of trucks using the Le Shuttle freight service this January was 38% higher than it was in the same month last year. 

Eurotunnel’s January freight traffic up 38% compared to 2021

<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/30/temporary-european-truck-drivers-paid-fifth/?fbclid=IwAR09OD-6BXTEMwnOQgIhsXw5BBxTHePSOv3_1nIaNrLinJsSo6FbOA1iaNA">According to a report in the Daily Telegraph</a>, British retail insiders say higher pay is required in order to attract lorry drivers from abroad to take on temporary work through the UK Government's new visa scheme. 

Report: lorry drivers using visa scheme to be paid up to 20% more

Dealers of DAF trucks in Germany are said to have been angered by DAF increasing the prices of its lorries on several occasions - often at late notice and occasionally retrospectively. DAF Germany has nonetheless denied any retrospective increase in prices and said that “It is common practice that the goals are adjusted afterwards." 

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