Due to family circumstances and needing to be reasonably close to home I have returned to driving for a while. Worked at Feltham and Farnborough depot via agency since April 2015, multi drop delivery of paper product to print trade in the main, all over South. Offered full time position October 2015, covering all routes.

Managed 40 drivers and 40 dray men for daily distribution to licensed establishments. Full briefing and debrief functions, investigating damages, failed deliveries and providing customer feedback. Monitor and ensure compliance in line with current transport legislation, carry out team presentations and arrange training. Carry out risk assessments and accident investigation and reporting both vehicle and personal. Carry out personal performance and development interviews and record actions taken. Liaise and work closely with warehouse and stock integrity management.

Duties include operating 120 staff and 75 commercial vehicles distributing Metro to 1000 locations in London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Essex.We continue to distribute Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as well as Kent Messenger and Northcliffe titles to wholesale all over London and Kent.My role is to oversee all operations, plan existing and new work. Liaison between HR, Finance, Payroll and Operation and Transport Managers. Formulating, updating and implementing policy. KPI Performance and Budget analysis. Designing all reports and paperwork used by the Company and designing databases for use by all departments.I also deal with HR and payroll functions and compliance with our own and other sites Health and Safety by our employees. The production of Risk Assessments and Method Statements and running a staff newsletter.

G Jones Distribution were a newspaper wholesaler delivering to shops in the GU postcode area, they won new business to distribute Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday to London trade wholesalers in 1995. I joined them as a Lorry Driver and was promoted to Supervisor in the first 3 days. Six months later I was promoted to Daily Mail Logistics & Warehouse Manager.Duties included – Organizing cover seven nights a week ensuring the 14 contracted Lorries per night were on site on time. Scheduling deliveries delivering live news Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and weekend supplements to wholesalers in London and Home counties. Ensuring full compliance with tachograph and rest regulations, health and safety and driving and delivering. Arranging holiday, absence cover, and payroll and HR functions.On winning the inserting business which involved the inserting of the Sunday supplements packing and distributing them to wholesale from Thursday to Saturday. Duties included preparing the warehouse for the manual inserting with 3 x 8 hour shifts 60 people per shift over 3 days. Planning the loads, delivery schedule and vehicles, health and safety and HR functions this ended in 1998. In 1998 we were approached to work out a secret plan to distribute a free newspaper to all London underground stations and some key over ground stations in London. I was given the task to visit every location, arrange the rack locations, plan the routes, employ the 70 staff and train them ready for launch. This was successful and on launch we distributed 250,000 copies to over 300 locations per day problem free. Within 2 months the distribution figure increased to 320,000 copies and continues to grow in supply and pagination.