Leyland Trucks

Quality Trucks Built by Quality People

Leyland Trucks Ltd., one of Britain’s leading manufacturing companies, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PACCAR Inc - PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt, DAF and Foden nameplates. Since Leyland Trucks was acquired by PACCAR in 1998, it has become the Group's established centre for light and medium truck design, development and manufacture. Leyland Trucks Ltd designs and produces trucks from 6 to 44 tonnes for each of PACCAR's established international brands - Kenworth, Peterbilt, DAF and Foden.

Over 100 Years of Truck Building Leyland has a long and distinguished history dating from 1896, when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town of Leyland, in North West England. This company's original product - a 1.5-ton-capacity steam van - was the start of what was to become an unbeaten heritage of engineering and production excellence that relates directly to the Leyland Trucks of today.

Leyland Assembly Plant

Leyland Trucks Today Leyland Trucks operates from one of Europe's most advanced truck assembly facilities, the Leyland Assembly Plant in North West England. The company, employing 1,000 people, manufactures 14,000 trucks per year of which approximately 35% is exported to all European Community Markets. The Company's future development is focused on the use of leading edge applications of information technology in all aspects of truck design, manufacture, procurement and logistics.

The 650,000 sq. ft plant has two chassis lines, and more recently has invested in a major redevelopment converting the high bay component warehouse into a world class parts distribution centre which has become the home of PACCAR Parts in the UK.

      Leyland Plant
      The Leyland factory, located approximately
    40 miles north of Manchester, opened in 1980.

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Leyland Trucks' Product Range

DAF LF Range

DAF LF International Truck of the Year 2002, the DAF LF range. Designed, developed and assembled at Leyland, the LF is a completely new series of distribution trucks in the 6 to 18 tonnes GVW weight segments and complements the heavier models in the DAF range, the CF and XF.

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the DAF LF Range

DAF CF Range
DAF CF Range

DAF CF range, designed by DAF in Eindhoven. All CF65 2 axle rigids, and all RHD versions of the CF75 and CF85 6x4 and 8x4 rigids, and CF85 6x2 tractors are assembled at Leyland.

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the DAF CF Range

Foden Alpha Range Silver Tractor Foden C-O

Design and assembly of all the vehicles sold by its sister company Foden is also carried out at Leyland Trucks. The Foden range comprises the Alpha 2000 and Alpha 3000 series, offering a full range of chassis configurations with specifically developed driveline combinations.

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the Foden Alpha Range

Continuous Improvement

Leyland Trucks has an absolute commitment to quality and continuous improvement throughout all levels in the company. Leyland has won the PACCAR Chairman's Quality Award for 1999, 2000 and 2002 - signifying that its vehicles meet the highest quality standards of those produced by any PACCAR plant world-wide. In addition, Leyland Trucks was recognised as Britain's Best Engineering Factory 2000 by Management Today in association with Cranfield School of Management and in partnership with Investors In People (IIP) and the Engineering Employers’ Federation (EEF). Leyland Trucks has now adopted Six Sigma measurement and process improvement methodology which sets the most demanding quality standards in the world.

Team Enterprise

Leyland Trucks is continually investing for the future, not only in new products and facilities but also in its employees. Training, Teamwork, Involvement and Empowerment are the cornerstones of the Team Enterprise culture adopted by Leyland Trucks. In addition, Leyland Trucks is recognised as an "Investors in People" company which is a further demonstration of its ongoing commitment to employee development.

So successful has Leyland Trucks been in the field of Team Enterprise that hundreds of managers of UK businesses - in activities as diverse as prison services and bakeries - have visited Leyland to learn about its practices. In fact, Leyland Trucks has a subsidiary company - Optima Personnel Services - that specialises in consulting services on the principles of Team Enterprise.

Best Engineering Factory Award 2000

Rospa Occupational Health and Safety Award