Well there goes a transport legend & already they’ve got a film about him on the go.
Looks OK, I’ve seen the trailer.

56 eh?
just like the speed of his wagon’s

RIP

Dunno why, just a legend, very sad so young 😥

I’ve seen the trailer.

boom tish.

shame it wasnt his business instead.

shame it wasnt his business instead

I know, he sold it to his brother William.

I’VE SEEN THE TRAILER!
Oh never mind.

With 2250 units on the road…running at little over cost price just to gain contracts, is it any wonder that so many haulage firms have gone out of business. The rates they pay the majority of their drivers is shameful really( I know there are some drivers on a good screw there but still….)

…he was HGV positive

56 eh?
just like the speed of his wagon’s

Made me smile – reckon he’d have seen the humour too.

I’ve seen the trailer.

boom tish.
Good ol belly laugh from me – ta muchly sir

shame he went so early I thought he was here for the long haul

It’s hard to articulate how I’m feeling about this.

It’s enough to make me fall off the wagon.

Time to face the final curtainsider

Transporter you sound bitter, I work for them and see what we charge for jobs and as long as we make a profit whats wrong with that. Don’t think people realise the size of network we have, we have very few empty legs which helps us keep the cost down.

Rip Eddie

Is Norbert Dentressangle a real person, or just a silly made-up name?

He is a human anagram….

Running it through an anagram generator gives 75001 options..

I Got A Job Driving For Eddie Stobart once………..

I asked if I could put my ex-wife’s name on the front of my truck. He wouldn’t let me, because apparently, “Fat, Money-grabbing, Lazy old bitch” doesn’t fit on a Scania grille

I regret these Stobart jokes, I take them all back.

…And back a bit more. A bit more… that’s it… couple more feet… stop! Woooah! Lovely job.

Don’t think people realise the size of network we have…

I think a lot of people don’t realise as well, that many transport companies will have trucks dedicated to a specific customer and will paint the trucks in that customer’s livery.
So, there may in fact be even more Stobart trucks on the road than just the ones you see in Stobart livery.

When I worked for a transport company in Pontypool, there was a rumour going round that Stobart was offering to haul loads from South Wales as far as the Severn Bridge for free as a way of undercutting local transport firms.
This sort of thing is common in public transport, there are always allegations of big bus companies running a route at a loss to drive the competition out of business, then doubling the ticket price once they’ve got it to themselves.
This was the first time I’d heard of it in haulage though.

IF Eddie Sobart had run a bus company, and a bus was being used for his funeral, it would arrive late,be cold in winter, to hot in summer,and be full of lower working class people.

Best Wished to the Stobart family, you seriously stirred up the transport industry for the better, bit like Stagecoach, but with more wheels on your wagon.

(LGV`s have more wheels than buses).

Time to face the final curtainsider

Pssh, I’ll have no truck with these freightful puns.

I have nothing to add, you’ve already articulated what I wanted to say.

He made an extremely generous donation to a charity I’m familiar with. Heard about an appeal, phoned up totally out of the blue and made a donation that benefited hundreds possibly thousands of people. RIP.

I’d heard he’d shed a load of cash to charity…

In seriousness, my Dad worked for Stobarts for years; he was involved in a head-on crash on his way home from work, breaking legs, going into cardiac arrest, hospitalised for months, and they totally supported him throughout a really difficult time. He then got cancer and they were brilliant. Always checking in, sending gifts, just being like a good friend throughout. In my family, at least, it’s sad that he’s passed on.

“HONK if you miss Eddie” new motto ?

Is Norbert Dentressangle a real person, or just a silly made-up name?

It’s made up. His real name is Norman Deathstrangler.

But he thought that perhaps he should change it for PR purposes……..someone told him that the Normans still had a bad name in England.

Personally I like “Norman Deathstrangler”, I think it’s a totally appropriate name for a long distant lorry driver. Plus it has the added advantage of reducing the possibility of his drivers picking up hitch-hikers.

Would have been ironic if he’d have been killed by a prostitute

Does he need a SORN?