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DAF Trucks showed several of its award-winning new generation XDs and XDCs at RTX. Speaking about the new distribution and construction truck range, which has been crowned International Truck of the Year (IToY) 2023, DAF Trucks marketing manager Phil Moon (left in picture) said: “Customers are seeing the advantages and orders are coming in fast.”

These sentiments were echoed by DAF sales director Russell Patmore, who said the popularity of its new generation trucks was likely to ensure the manufacturer completed a 29th year of UK market leadership. Speaking before the show, he said: “This year so far, provisional data indicates we are at over 31% of the market, which is a slightly higher share of a slightly larger market than this time last year. To the end of May we registered more than 18% more trucks above 6 tonnes GVW than we did in May 2022.”

At the show, Commercial Motor editor Will Shiers (right in picture), who was joined by five IToY jury members, presented DAF Trucks UK with the trophy. “There are so many reasons why the XD was crowned IToY 2023, but for me the top one is its outstanding visibility,” he said.