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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.

Highway junction hits the spot

Highway junction hits the spot

Centrally situated between Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Durban, Engen’s Highway Junction is ideally positioned to achieve its core function: providing essential services to truck drivers while on the road. NADINE VON MOLTKE chats to the family who pioneered South Africa’s number one truck stop…

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Danish Pastry

Danish Pastry

SHAUN CONNORS enjoys a bit of ethnic cleansing with the French army before getting into even deeper water with the Danish.

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Samurai warrior

Samurai warrior

This month VIC OLIVER puts the new Isuzu FTR 850 fitted with a tautliner body to the test…

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Start of a great love affair

Start of a great love affair

In most peoples’ experience, certain key events play an important role in determining the direction their lives will take. In my case, it was moving house in 1958 when, at the age of eleven, I suddenly found myself living on a road carrying all the heavy traffic into and out of the Island View oil sites on Durban’s Bluff.

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Liquid gold

Liquid gold

We’ve all heard the expression, “everything he touches turns to gold,” but in the case of Scania, the idiom is actually true. From the birth of its legendary V8 engine in 1969 to the unparalleled success of the new R-Series in 2009, Scania is setting the pace for the heavy transport industry.

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