WEDNESDAY 0800)) CM delivered by printers in Maldon, Essex to
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R&R Transport Services in Dunstable, Beds. Loaded onto trucks by Tolstar, Colchester. 0S30)) Trucks leave depot, heading towards Leeds and Gloucester. Rendezvous with Macfarlane vehicles in Tamworth, Leics and Downton vehicles in Oxford to exchange trailers, for arrival at Leeds and Gloucester depots by 12:30.
R&R schedule:
13.30 Loads are order-picked for wholesalers and sent on the road. Those destined for Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey leave first to allow time for ferry crossings.
15.15 Leave for Reading and High Wycombe.
15:25 For Tonbridge and Chatham. 16:00)) For Luton, Crawley and Weybridge.
1630 For Northampton, Norwich, Harlow, Chelmsford and Ipswich.
17:00 For Coventry, Leicester and East Anglia.
Macfarlane schedule:
12-30 Magazines arrive at Leeds depot. Order pickers get to work for wholesalers; for example, John Menzies in Inverness and WH Smith in Leeds.
11400-17:00 Batches leave on scheduled runs, all of which are timed to arrive by 23:30.
CM Downton schedule:
1230 Magazines arrive at Gloucester depot. Orders picked according to time sensitivity. 13:30)) Vehicles loaded and sent out, to start arriving at wholesalers from 15:00-21:00. 15:00'77:00)) Arrive at Gloucester, Oxford and Swindon.
17:00)) Arrive at Bristol.
18:00-19:00 )) Arrive at Wales.
21:00 Arrive at Plymouth, Carmarthen, Southampton and Bournemouth.
23:30)) All issues should have arrived at wholesalers. CM will be boxed out to subscription houses and newsagents and delivered overnight, to be on the news stands by first thing Thursday morning.