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DAFCF

The all-purpose middleweight that did most of DAF's actual work.

Photo: Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0

The story

A defining chapter in DAF history.

Explore the ideas, engineering and context that shaped the DAF CF, then continue into its specifications and place in the marque's lineage.

Hart's Haulage 2008 DAF CF tipper truck, 25 January 2010

Origins

If the XF was the long-haul flagship, the CF was the truck that turned up at building sites, supermarket depots and fire stations. It sat in the middle of the DAF range as a cab-over design available in a wide spread of axle configurations, from two-axle rigids to heavy multi-axle tippers, with the same PACCAR driveline family as its bigger sibling and gearboxes from ZF, Eaton and Allison depending on the job.

Hart's Haulage 2008 DAF CF tipper truck, 25 January 2010 · bilbobagweed · CC BY 2.0

Design and engineering

Its ancestry runs back through the F218 series and, on the British side of the business, the Leyland Constructor, and left-hand-drive cabs came from Eindhoven while right-hand-drive production sat at Leyland. Versatility kept it in production for decades and made it a common sight in municipal and vocational fleets across Europe. The XD replaced it when DAF restructured its range around the new European cab regulations.

Bidvest Foodservice SN63 RDY · Glen Wallace from Inverness, Scotland · CC BY-SA 2.0

At a glance

The facts that define it.

Produced

1992–2024

Body

Truck

Technical specification

The CF, in detail.

Production: 1992–2024
Class: Truck
Body style: Truck (cab over engine)
Engine: 11.6nbspL WS 242L and 268L inline-four engine; I6 (gasoline)
Transmission: 16-speed ZF Ecosplit 16S 150; 16-speed Eaton Twin Splitter 126.12A; DAF (manual/automatic); 18-speed Eaton Fuller Road Ranger; Alison 2500 and 3000
Assembly: Netherlands: Eindhoven (LHD); UK: Leyland (Leyland Trucks; RHD)
Manufacturer: DAF