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October 2006

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VW goes Banking
In what must be one of the year's best examples of the versatility of commercial vehicles, First National Bank (FNB) took ownership of nine customized VW LT panel vans to assist in their initiative to educate rural communities about banking

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New International Owners
Commercial vehicle owner-driver schemes have been around since the mid-1990s and if anything, most have been a smokescreen for driver exploitation, with operators offloading the onerous task of keeping vehicle running costs as low as possible to the driver in return for ownership of the vehicle.

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'Dem Stones turn 70
The granddaddy of South African tyres, Firestone, recently celebrated its 70th anniversary of local tyre production. The road to becoming a local tyre icon has been characterized by significant achievements in both tyre technology precedents as well as motor sport victories.

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