A new book telling the inside story of how TNT UK worked with newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch to break the union stranglehold on Fleet Street has already been reprinted.
‘The man who never sleeps’ is the autobiography of Tom Bell OBE, then MD of TNT UK, who famously ran trucks across picket lines in the controversial and sometimes violent year-long Wapping dispute of the mid-1980s.
Reviewing the book, Jonathan Northcroft of The Sunday Times, wrote: “I was most interested in the inside view it provided on Rupert Murdoch and his thinking when fighting the print unions. There’s some great detail and drama in those scenes. Tom Bell was the logistics guy who delivered for Murdoch.”
According to the publishers, Bell’s story is an “inspirational tale of rags to riches and of a man who always delivered in life.
“Ruthless and compassionate in equal measure, a maverick who didn’t suffer fools gladly, Bell excelled as a ‘captain of industry’ in the high octane, fast-moving world of express deliveries, grabbing every opportunity that came his way.”
