A customer withdraws money from a cash machine at a mobile office bus of the savings bank Sparkasse in Tschirn, southern Germany, on January 30, 2018. Bank manager Juergen Schaller never expected to end up getting a trucker's licence and driving 20,000 kilometres (12,400 miles) per year. But as brick-and-mortar branches vanish from the rolling Franconia region of northern Bavaria, the neatly-dressed savings bank executive jumps behind the wheel four days a week to bring mobile services -- including cash machine and consultation room -- to tiny countryside villages. / AFP PHOTO / Timm Schamberger
TSCHIRN, Germany: Bank manager Juergen Schaller never expected to end up getting a trucker’s licence and driving 20,000 kilometres (12,400 miles) per year.
But as brick-and-mortar branches vanish from the rolling Franconia region of northern Bavaria, the neatly dressed savings bank executive jumps behind the wheel four days a week to bring mobile services – including cash machine and consultation room – to tiny countryside villages.
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