Eddie Stobart RIP

[weltweit]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/859708-truck-boss-eddie-stobart-dies-at-the-age-of-56

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12925163

 

[quimcunx]

Only 56? He must have been successful young.

 

[Lord Camomile]

It is with great sadness and regret that Stobart Group shares the news that Edward Stobart, son of Eddie Stobart, passed away

So I take it not the original Eddie?

e2a: First line of the Metro article:

Edward Stobart, whose father Eddie founded the haulage company during the1960s, collapsed after a suspected heart attack.

 

[butchersapron]

He was the son

 

[quimcunx]

ah.

 

[pogofish]

IIRC, This guy was the one who made the changes & expansions that turned the family firm into the name we know today.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

He was a cunt, good riddance.

 

[danny la rouge]

Pogofish*.

(*I believe this is a new idiom that popped up while I was away).

 

[DotCommunist]

He was a cunt, good riddance.

^^^^

If I've met one logistics manager of his er4a who had a good word to say I can't remember it. Drove down costs through crap practise and no amount of cheerily named trucks is giving anyone a fucking job back. Riddance.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

<thread fail>

 

[weltweit]

The Eddie Stobart that just died grew the business his father started, and I think he sold it also, so it isn't a complete rags to riches story but still I read in one article that they now have more than 2,000 trucks, that is something. Also I can remember branded clothes and toys and all sorts, was there not even a cartoon along the lines of bob the builder? .. anyhow certainly a recognisable brand in Britain if you spend much time on the roads.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

lol

 

[strung out]

don't get all the RIP condolences etc messages. he was just the boss of a truck company.

 

[quimcunx]

don't get all the RIP condolences etc messages. he was just the boss of a truck company.

There was only one, the OP.

 

[strung out]

yeah, sorry, i meant generally. it's been all over my facebook and twitter. i couldn't really care less. maybe i'm a bad person because of it.

 

[quimcunx]

Because people like the trucks and don't know anything about him.

Someone hired one as their wedding car once IIRC.

 

[weltweit]

yeah, sorry, i meant generally. it's been all over my facebook and twitter. i couldn't really care less. maybe i'm a bad person because of it.

Oh I don't particularly care about the guy, don't know him from adam, but anyone who uses the road will have recognised some of the trucks, they are everywhere.

Perhaps I should have put it in transport!!

 

[JWH]

Let me join the chorus of indifference.

 

[starfish]

What will it be like when Norbert Dentressangle dies.

 

[Dhimmi]

don't get all the RIP condolences etc messages. he was just the boss of a truck company.

but, but, but he was the People's Boss of a Truck Company!

Like a candle in the slow lane going past the M1 widening at Luton...

 

[discokermit]

turns out he was HGV positive.

 

[Dillinger4]

I will always remember where I was when I found out Eddie Stobart passed away. The world will be a poorer place without him, he changed the world in so many ways. Goodnight, sweet prince.

 

[Voley]

 

[discokermit]

they're making a film about him. i just saw the trailer...

 

[geminisnake]

turns out he was HGV positive.

LOL

 

[Citizen66]

turns out he was HGV positive.

And when the doctor informed him he got the freight of his life.

 

[Citizen66]

Dp ffs

 

[Steel Icarus]

That's the trouble with threads about haulage firms. You always end up with more than one wag on.

 

[stethoscope]

I hope this thread isn't in for the long haul.

 

[discokermit]

poor eddie. tyred and exhausted in the end.