The DAF truck brand is one of the most iconic in global transportation dating back to 1928 when Hub van Doorne founded the company in a tiny workshop in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The business made 60,000 trucks in 2021 alone and it is by a distance Europe’s biggest maker of trucks. But now on the edge of Europe, in the county of Cork, a war has broken out between shareholders in a company called DAF Truck Services (Cork) Ltd that has for decades sold and serviced DAF trucks in the south west. On one side are father and son Patrick…
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