Sloopwerken, it says on the front and sides of the cab. That’s Dutch for Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. In other words, a demolition company, the guys you call when something has to be torn down. This sturdy and robust truck was parked at the very edge of a dyke road.
The DAF is rated at a maximum GVM of 37,000 kg (81,571 lbs), sturdy indeed! It’s powered by a 12.6 liter inline-6 engine with a maximum power output of 380 DIN-hp.
The white unit on top of the day cab is a BMAir filter pressurization system, it provides clean air to the hermetically sealed cab.
The truck’s drive axles have hub reduction, highly common on heavy haulage tractors and on-/off-road trucks like this one.
The chassis is equipped with a roll-off system for hauling open top containers. Such a tall container as seen here is typically used to transport everything but bricks, concrete, soil and other (very) heavy materials.
Also present at the job, Klaassen’s 2010 Renault Master double cab panel van (2.3 liter turbodiesel, 125 DIN-hp). Asbestverwijdering means asbestos removal.
And what a perfect day it was for a fine demolition job!
So they haul off the slop? 🙂
Sturdy looking rig.
The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the lead in picture was this…
It probably served the same purpose in that galaxy far far away…
Perfect!
Johannes, so many of your truck posts remind me of toys of my youth. When I was a kid, I used to trade many of my new or late model die casts with older brothers of friends to acquire some of the classic 1960s era Matchbox and Lesney die casts. Your subject truck reminds me a great deal of the AEC eight wheeled dump truck Matchbox introduced in 1969.
AEC went into Leyland, Leyland into DAF…..
And isn’t that the model I lost around 1974?….;-)
That’s a really nice ride, I was more of a Siku-driver in the seventies. Hanomag-Henschel, Mercedes-Benz, Magirus-Deutz and Volvo were the brands.
Matchbox also did a DAF, with one less axle though.
That’s a 2600, DAF’s 1962-1973 top model.
In my pre-Siku career, I had this DAF 2000 bulk hauler (for animal feed) by Lion Car.
And after the Siku-years, I built this DAF 3300 from the early eighties by Italeri.
I had the single-axle GMC from before my time, probably a yard-sale find courtesy of my Aunt Jeanne. I also had the brochure – my dad bought a ’79 GMC Sierra pickup and brought 5-year-old me *all* the GMC brochures.
Is the sealed cab because of the asbestos? And I guess there’s also a sealed container version to haul that stuff away
The whole idea is to keep any form of heavy dust and/or pollution outside the cab.
I feel like I’ve never seen those before, or maybe I wasn’t looking closely enough. Then again I am from Scotland, which apparently has the highest rates of asbestos-related disease on the planet.
Nice trucks to drive DAFs are, Ive got a lot of wheel time in CFs.
Very popular with British drivers, they’ve probably surpassed Scania as the drivers’ favourite – I never really liked them for some reason.
I also had to drive an automatic CF for a while and the transmission was a bag o’ shite.
Most of them tend to have road rangers here the autos have durability issues and are double the price of a RR to replace.