INTERNATIONAL TRUCK STOP
ROAD TRANSPORT EXPO 2022 Story and photos by Will Shires
An exciting new industry event burst onto the British truck scene this year.
L
ike any self-respecting journalist, I spent considerable time at this summer’s Road Transport Expo (30 June to 2 July) hunting down free booze. But then, I felt like I
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deserved it. After all, Britain’s newest and largest truck trade show was partly my idea and helping to plan it resulted in a rather stressful 18 months. With 185 exhibitor stands, including no less than 10 different truck manufacturers, it was a complete success. So I reckoned that justified several glasses of celebratory free gin and tonic (thanks Smart Witness), champagne (thanks Volvo), beer (thanks MV Commercial) and
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Guinness (thanks Van Hool)! However, you’ll be pleased to hear that I did manage to have a good look around the show. Here are a few of the highlights.
DAF Trucks On the DAF Trucks stand were examples of its New Generation range. The XF, XG and XG+ were crowned International Truck of the Year 2022, and as the UK jury member, I took the
opportunity to officially hand over the trophy to DAF’s UK marketing manager Phil Moon. DAF will no doubt be hoping to do the double with its XD (CF replacement), which will get its official launch at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover, Germany, in September.
Dennis Eagle British refuse truck-maker
