Eddie Stobart, Limited to 56 (years of age)

[AB Editor]

http://uk.reuters.com...idUKTRE72U44N20110331

///Edward Stobart, who turned the family trucking company into one of Britain's best-known brands as his distinctive green and white lorries thundered along the country's motorways, has died at the age of 56///

[heathfield]

I dare say I'll still end up stuck behind one of those distinctive green and white trucks on the A1 between Edinburgh and Newcastle !

[redman41]

Sad News but this family business will carry on going strong for many Years to come.
Watched a good Documentary about this Haulage business a few ago.

[TWR]

If only you all knew the true storey of Stobart! running other companies out of work with cheap rates, ask the hauliers of Scotland & there was a lot from Carlisle to Aberdeen & a lot more in between that went out of business because of this bloke.

[avanalarf]

The "true storey of Stobart"? You've got me floored.

[lesblue]

Agree with TWR........a bit of a rascal is putting it kindly.

[tamborine]

An icon of Brit Innovation and vision lost. RIP Eddie, v.sad loss

[TWR]

If you wait you might get a few responces from people / wifes up in Scotland that their husbands where put out of work because of this Stobart, the old HGV drivers will come up with a few storys! Eddie Stodbart in a Lay by! are you taking the pizzz was one.

[ChuckFickens]

Free competition is a real bugger isn't it.

[TWR]

H was more than a rascal Lesblue, but I dare not put what us old HGV drivers thought of him??

[pusskin]

blimey! we see his lorries on the m.25 when ever were on there --which is fairly nearby

[tamborine]

Power corrupts some but that doesn't detract from his inspiration and livery gracing our motorways.

[TWR]

It is when some cowboy puts your husband on the dole & the have a house. children to feed Chuckfigens, Iv met the men that this plonker put out of work & also the Scottish Hauliers.

[ummmm]

TWR - Is that just business?

[dotty.]

lol love the tweet that said they are making a movie about his life and they've seen the trailer .

[ChuckFickens]

Pressumbly you'd rather it was the drivers that worked for stobart that are on the dole, put out of their houses and struggling to feed their children then?

[TWR]

Ummmm, if there are Scottish Ex halage drivers on this site I will let them answer your Question, with respect to your answer.

[TWR]

Haulage

[ummmm]

It's business. You can't hold it against him for actually being successful at it.

[Barmaid]

Isn't is more a case that by being shrewd and operating with business acumen that ES managed to grow a multi million pound international haulage company? Not his fault that other hauliers were not quite so on the ball.