Shah needs transport staff
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NEW NATIONAL newspaper boss Eddy Shah urgently needs transport staff in the London area to run the radical distribution plan for his seven-day national newspaper, Toddy.
Shah's News UK is bypassing traditional national newspaper distribution networks dominated largely by the print union Sogat '82 and is organising its own in the London area.
When the newspaper is first printed on March 4, up to 300 staff, including van drivers, team leaders and depot supervisors, will he needed.
'lie planned sites for the depots are at Chiswick, Walthamstow mid Croydon.
T hose interested should contact Tony Barnett at Poyle, West London, on 0753 684077.
Shah has bought a new fleet of 200 new model Ford .I.ransits to deliver Today from the three depots to 6,1100 newsagents. But it will first be trunked in hired articulated vehicles from the Poyle print works to the depots.
In the rest of England and Wales, Shah will handle half of the distribution through his own franchises, while Sogatdominated W. H. Smiths will organise the rest.