What Happened to Eddie Stobart?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- A new series with a bit of a different theme.
I will be taking a look at iconic or infamous British companies, locomotives or places that are no longer with us. Today we start with Eddie Stobart. The inspiration for the series came as I was curious myself as to where the company had gone but couldn’t find any videos so I decided to make one.
I hope you enjoy this series and I will continue to make it if the support is there.
As lorries are not usually my area I don’t have any pictures so I would like to declare I do not own the copyright for any of these pictures, but am using them under ‘fair use’ for education purposes only.
I hope you enjoy!
Thanks for watching!
I don't know about Eddie Stobart but Stephen Hawking seems to have found a new niche narrating youtube videos.
reaLLy..i WOUld noooot haaAVE not...ced.
Through a medium?
He faked his own death, and now lives with a guy called Elvis, and his mate John Lennon.
you're joking... hawking had far more personality than this monotone clown.
Your not aloory driver pillock
Any one here remember when Stobart took over some Tesco RDCs. All staff were told to reapply for their jobs on less pay and conditions.
He died, he was found to be "HGV Positive ".
He was limited to 56!
The company that wrecked British Road transport.
I remember my trainer talking about Stobart when I did my National and International CPC back in the mid 90’s. I seem to recall him having his “O” licence taken away on several occasions because of the way he ran his fleet operations. Clearly he was “influencing” someone in the right way as he seemed to bounce back each time!
That's what happens when you have the backing of the church behind you.
@@martinwebb1681 nothing to do with the church..Midland Bank as was....owned Stobarts get your facts right mate..
Had a 'run in' with one of their drivers a few years ago. He was in the wrong lane at an island and tried to cut me up on the exit. We stopped side by side, he put his window down and said i had to let him in because they were the elite. Not so elite now are they?
I’m not saying this was the case here but sometimes Class 1 LGV have to be in the ‘wrong’ lane at the approach to a roundabout or T junction in order for the trailer to be able to negotiate the corner without mounting kerbs or obliterating something.
A fact that many car only drivers fail to understand.
@@winco68 I understand that because i'm an HGV driver myself. I didn't point out in my comment that i was in a lorry at the time.
Their demise was a result of how they expanded so fast by getting work by low ball bidding to force the competition into liquidation. Large fleets like Yardelys of Leeds and Browns of Carsile were east to undercut, their management was old and complacent and when the next generation took over as in Yardely's case they didn't have the hungry killer instinct of Eddie S.
I bet the "next generation" went to public schools. It has happened ever since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. Hard working parents, spoilt sons.
Correct
I recently did my Class 2 licence and there was a lady doing her Class 2 as well and it turned out that she is the niece of Andrew Tinkler and she explained that although the name and brand colours still exist, the main reason why the Culina group ended up buying Stobart's was because they wanted their contracts with companies and the fleet was a nice addon to the deal. She also mentioned that the Stobart family do have a trucking firm still though, they are called WS transport.
I used to play a game for two players while driving on the motorways- Eddies and Norberts. Each participant chose the trucks they would look out for, either Eddie Stobart or Norbert Dentressangle. The first to reach ten won the game and then you started again. However, if either player spotted a Preston's of Potto truck, that trumped everything and was a game winner.
Or knoghts of Olde.
We called it 'Nobbies and Stobbies' ...
@@noisyneighbour3317 That's a much better name than my one!
while them two were popular in later life, when we were on holiday in France and Spain as kids in the late 70's early 80's, we would spot Lloyds of Ludlow Ltd and and Swains of Stretton Ltd (two small Shropshire UK based companies) who's trucks we would often see aboard, and given we live in Shropshire an equal distance from both to the mile, it was a reminder of home, as they were often seen locally too.
@@das5813they went bust a few weeks ago.
Robot voice. Instant switchoff.
Sorry about that. All future videos are being voiced. I may revisit this topic soon as well with a proper voiceover if that would interest you?
Why use a bot voice.. there's no excuse and a complete turn-off 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
@@NoPooftersHereUK1234 Ever heard of people that are insecure about their voice? Stop being so self-minded.
Not to mention that the company nearly went under. Had multi bail outs.
Only avid fans of The Simpsons TV show will like this (the one where Sideshow Bob was trying to kill Bart). Driving along the M6 one dark night, my headlights caught the words "Die Bart" on the back of the vehicle away in front of me. I was puzzled by this for a long time before I eventually caught up with the vehicle. It was an "Eddie Stobart" lorry, but only part of the firm's name on the back doors was showing because one door had been removed. 😂
[ "EdDIE StoBART."]
Funnily enough I spotted one of their Scania wagon and drag today on the M8 still in the original colours, 1st of November. These big companies like Culina and Gregory and suchlike are taking over the UK transport.
My brother is a driver for Pollock and that was recently acquired by Gregory group.
I always wondered what happened to Eddie Stobbart with not seeing his trucks on the road, this is what happeneds when you get too big too fast. Alan Merseyside.
plus william stobart and all his helper`s put in rock bottom price`s to run and pinch contract`s of over haulier`s ,and then found out well down the line thay where not making any money out of them contract`s
Well another company has took over them cuilne company has them Eddie storbart trailers and turners from Ely Suffolk has them aswell as they sold the business to other truck companies in Suffolk Essex and Cambridge area to run it and drive there trucks as they have new trucks
The culina group is owned by a German company called MULLER that’s the company that makes all the diary products ie milk , muller rice , anchor butter , and more
The company has been brought out by Culina, so the traditional colours are being phased out, Stobart is no more.
And Culina is owned by Mülla
William stobart is 1of the top men at culinary now and he is worth a fortune wish I was a pound behind him.
This is not the full story, I have worked in the transport industry for the last 50 years and experienced the effect stobbart had on other hauliers , stobbart by various devious operations caused the closure of many other hauliers, both company's and owner drivers , the stobbart drivers were shunned by drivers from other company's, in greasy spoons while eating , if a stobbart clown came and sat next to other drivers , they would all get up and find other tables , their dodgy operations should have bankrupted them , but they owed to much for that to happen , so they were allowed to carry on , undercutting honest hauliers , and driving them out of business, ...........here's a good one about stobbart , ......" what's green , and hangs from a @unt , .........an Eddie stobbart tie "
From a retired driver, absolutely spot on.
Bit like Stagecoach with bus operators.
Bang on mate I was an owner operator with one unit and trailer I ran potatoes 🥔 from Arbroath in Scotland 🏴 from my a farm owned by my brother in law dropped all over England Leeds and as far as Cornwall many occasions getting a backload was hard work so if I could not get anything suitable I would phone Coca Cola to see if they had anything going up to Glasgow their was always a load but when I arrived in their depot at say Uxbridge and after sitting in the cue you were told stodart or Malcom or one of the other shits had taken the load for free or the price of a tank diesel that would mean another night waiting for a backlog home I’ve never forgotten these scumbags I know I was only a one man band and a lot of smaller hauliers had to pay of drivers and put their companies into bankruptcy in the end that’s what happened to me lost my wagon lost my house but luckily for me my mate was the contract manager with a major utility company in Scotland 🏴 and I ended up with a fantastic job driving one of their HGVs
@@thomasshepard6030
Many small and family owned hauliers went out of business by the big concerns undercutting even transporting for free.
When I took my CPC I was told that some jobs you have to do for nothing. I decided not to run trucks but went into the driving agency business and made loads of money instead.
Absolutely. the bloke and anyone who drove for him were universally hated by decent hardworking drivers and other haulage firms. He was a prick, running all over the place for f##k all, just to steal another load and keep on driving rates through the floor.
Did untold damage to the industry. If any driver wants to know why wages in general haulage are so low, that tosspot is a major reason why.
The Stagecoach of the haulage industry. At one point they had the clout to be able to run contracts at a loss until their competitors went under then they'd ramp up the price. It was only children and Sunday drivers who ever had a good impression of them.
No longer with us? That's arguable. Yes, it's been bought out, yes, the lorries are being rebranded and re-liveried, but Eddie Stobart Ltd is still a UK registered company, 2023 accounts are at Companies house and due to be published in about 10 days.
Whymust you usea speech synthesizerto narrate
your videos? It's very hard to follow. Surely it wouldn't have been difficult to read out the script - it's only 110 seconds!
Very sorry u feel that way. I have since moved to narration for all videos of this nature, however it’s not possible to edit this one. I’m considering revisiting it with an improved script and voiceover once current projects are completed
@@eastcoasttrainspotting5673 Good idea eastcoast as that was pretty damn awful and hard to follow
Suis un français breton. J'ai toujours connu ces ensembles rutilants. Souvenirs. Le bonjour aux trucks english 🚛😉
I hate these robot voiceovers, the cadence is all wrong. Another British company, bought by foreign interests just so they can kill it off.
Sorry about that. All future videos are being voiced. I may revisit this topic soon as well with a proper voiceover if that would interest you?
@@eastcoasttrainspotting5673Use a Dalek voice-over for laughs
Norbert Dentressangle bought out Sheddick Transport in Newport just for the contracts
@Paul-kh31w, sorry mate no sympathy for Stobart, drove down rates and put plenty of well established hauliers”out the game”…
@@aldo5428 ... Along with Covid.
Best thing that ever happened to a haulage company they were absolute shits to work for and they put a lot of single owner operators out of business by stealing work from them I had my own unit and trailer and on many occasions I would go into Coca Cola depot to pick a back load home to Scotland 🏴 and the dogs from stobart had takin my load just for the price of a tank of diesel and they weren’t the only ones
Haven’t seen an Eddie Stobart truck for ages , I have noticed my little model of one ,has gone missing . Maybe some one has nicked it because if Stobarts goes pear shaped ,it might go up in value ,to collectors .
No chance, the second-hand market is awash with them.
@@northernblue1093 The second hand market won’t be awash with the type , I had that’s gone missing .
Those Stobarts model trucks are everywhere, they went overkill in producing them, now they can't sell them for love nor money, too many produced makes them virtually worthless, even in the future.
@@martinwebb1681 The Stobart trucks that were made as toys to be played with by kids ,will get played with & wrecked . It will be any of the surviving ones left in mint boxed condition that will go up in value . The ones made as models for adult collectors ,will mostly be kept mint in boxes & so many will survive making them more common & not as valuable . It’s the old Dinky & Corgi model toy die cast cars in boxed mint condition that are the most valuable to collectors today, as most got played with & beaten up ,or destroyed . So I expect the models made for kids will be the ones most likely to rise more in value ,as many won’t survive in good nick .
@maskedavenger2578 I have a little model of eddie stobart truck, was free gift on the subscription build of twiggy truck from hatchette, and it stays in its clear plastic case could be worth a few Bob in yrs to come
What voice did you use for? The video sounds like the Apple robot voice, Daniel.
I think that may be it, not sure now
WS Transportation is William Stobart and one of his sons i believe.
I believe you are correct yes. The lorries look like ex stobart rail ones, or at least very similar in the branding
It's a very tidy well turned out fleet.
William owns WS Transportation as well as being deputy CEO of Culina Group Logistics UK.
This computer generated commentary is utter crap and ruins the subject...
Sorry about that. Would you be interested in a similar video with a proper voiceover?
Stobarts didn’t own the trucks they were leased, hence why they were wrapped. You can’t paint a leased vehicle.
Nothing happened at all Eddie died and the company got bigger.
And has now been sold entirely
CML Culina has bought Eddie Stobart.
Yeah a different company got bigger…. much bigger. But you have a point the Stobart family is still involved. William Stobart is deputy CEO of Culina Group Logistics. In addition he has his own haulage company WS Transportation.
I travel to Sheffield Hospital 96 mile journey every 6 months and pass loads of eddie stobart trucks. I haven't seen any of the new brands u have shown here. My journey adds up to 196 miles on the A1m and M1. Am in the process of building the eddie stobart twiggy truck
Sounds interesting! As for the lorries I drive around 500 motorway miles per week and I’ve seen a lot of the new lorries, especially lately but the old livery is still fairly common, though definitely becoming scarcer. As with anything it’ll be a big job and will probably take years to fully rebrand
plus 95% of eddie`s fleet where leased from scania`s , merc`s , man ,and other`s so thay will be on a 3-5 yr contract SO THAY CARNT SEND THEM BACK TO THE MAIN AGENT TILL THE LEASE IS UP@@eastcoasttrainspotting5673
Point noted, Impossible to rebrand thousands of trucks within days,months it'll take years before anyone realises Stobarts gone...
How the mighty fall.🙈🙊
Plus well before CULLINA bought it out and it was on telly a massive share was bought by a London banking firm with William and his mate tinkler how he fell out with had part running of it somewhere round November 2017 it had to be bailed out again with a some of 51 million pound at this point William stobart put a lot of us own money back in to buy more shares back and try running it his way again
Remember up North are 30 years behind 😂😂
Grief! I hate these "Dalek" commentaries!!
Hated them with a passion, took a lot work away from my old firm back in the late eighties, not many hauliers in East Anglia had any time for them. ' I had a run in with one of their gobby shunters in an Amazon RDC in Leicestershire four or so years ago a few weeks before I retired. Good ridance to them and all the other global 'logistics' companies, that word alone was a nail in the coffin of British road haulage.
I remember when i was a lorry driver yearsssssssss ago, Eddie Stobart (the old man) went to France to try and register the new lorrys in france, BUT the owner of Norbert Dentressangle (ND)
Flys his Helicopter to Stobart and landed at his place and told Stobart he had a small window to move all your trucks out of france, or ND will undercut every job Stobarts bids on and run Stobarts into the ground. Now you know why all the lorrys are resigtered in Belguim.
This was a story that was told loads of time when drivers where on the P&O ferry eating in the drivers food court.
Also back then Stobarts would only imploy X Army! As they said they where better drivers.
HMMMMM a driver that has only followered a orange flashing light when on the roads also never had to put the lorry in reverse with a trailer.
i know this first hand, as i worked for a couier company when i gave up drving in Europe, When a agency driver came to the depot, i woulg ask what they have done and so on. then i ask them to park a trailer onto a bay, 15 mins later they where still trying to park the trailer, i then asked where you in the army? they said yes, so i parked it onto the bay,
Many times when i had agency staff for drivers, if they where in the Army before, then it was hard work as they had not had real life driving a lorry where you had to think what to do and not just follow the orange lights of the convoy jeeps.
Dont get me wrong everyone had to start somewhere :)
Why the computerised voice?
Switched off
Sorry about that. Future videos will always be voiced as they are now
I think Harry Hill caused the demise of the tv series. As for all the comments saying Stobarts got what they deserved need to remember they were bought out as opposed gone banktrupt, that's a massive difference.
Happy they have gone , they undercut most euro haulage and killed a lot of good companys.
On our coach trips.we use to count how many trucks we would see.
If you started counting Culina units now it would be around 30% of everything out there! At the base of the cab door you’ll find the name of the former haulier that they bought out. Stobart represents the majority.
He passed away and the company was financed by a larger group to expand keeping the name and brand.
Edward stobart died. Eddie was the father. I dont know weather he is still alive or not .
Miss seeing Eddie stobart big fan but did actually see tractor unit and trailer heading north on m40 north bound last weekend and sad little chacter am shouted steady a proper one not culina stobart 😢
Eddie was taken over by culina good or bad😮lwas a spoter and still can see a stobart liverd track ter trailer some time 😮
They got too big for their boots. Tried to muscle in on transport area’s they didn’t know (cars). Lost millions and that was they’re demise. Bye bye! No loss.
What a shame, their drivers were known for their courtesy
Clowns more like
I did dock security for many years, and Stobart drivers were very often cocky and arrogant - some were just bloody rude. One hated to be told where he had to go, and his catchphrase was:
"I know where to go, Hitler."
What a charmer.
I think i stand corrected
Sorry mate, they were a bunch of wankers
@@brianartillery ... 🤣🤣... There's always a couple.
Often to be seen buried under a bridge somewhere!
Ha ha ha!! Myself and my fellow 113 drivers back in 2010 to 11 had to put up these when working for tesco and they just took our jobs...
Culina just don't seem to have the same mentality that Stobart had, just look at the names of the trucks for example which are like the driver's partner on the job.
Culina are a German company, totally different mind set.
Culina are owned by Müller the German dairy conglomerate. Their end game is efficiency not sentimentality.
Well if anyone looked on Google it was culine and turners of Ely Suffolk and ws transport and Cambridge has all of the new trucks and new trailers but not the Eddie storbart trailers they use there own trailers to do the job and there own trucks
Was destined never to exceed 56.
So they now are gone. Remembered seeing those wagons doing there business of what they we're built for. 😢
Yes, it seems they were into everything, even had a large fleet of car transporter lorries.
Got greedy and believed there own hype
Third rate drivers,greed,they lost their way,or respect years ago,Eddie must be spinning in his grave.
What happened to Eddie Stobart
Culina bought them out and got rid of the name...just like some other companies they have bought recently.....
You can find the former company name on the base of the cab doors.
@@winco68 Hardly the same when it comes to a company i was talking about (not stobarts they can rot in hell for all i care)
@@b34rdy No it’s not the same but at least according to some drivers Culina are playing by the rules which is more than could be said of Stobarts.
@@winco68 i twas another company culina took over and decimated im on about
I've always worked in road haulage and i believe that Stobart as been disliked over the years by other hauling companies and inpart responsible for small haulers go to the wall unable to complete,he seemed to flood the market with vehicles and undercut anyone who stood in his way,it was well known that loads coming out of England when reach Carlisle they would deliver for free products going on into Scotland,there are many great haulers apart from Stobart like Nights of Old,Jack Richards and many more, after Eddie past away the strict rules fell away, gone were the white shirt and tie which was a stupid idea anyway, after all truck drivers are not meant to look like coach drivers,Stobart will exist but not the way club members remember it.
They stopped washing their trucks.
Stoddart was sold to culina so the colour has gone
You think or what
Such a shame for this iconic haulage company to go. I always thought it was so wealthy nothing could stop it growing & being ever popular by it's megga fans. But, i am sad to hear that this company is no longer in existance. Certainly not the way we loved their drivers for being so sociable to their fans at truckfests & when they get a spare moment to get their pic taken with a happy fan. They always tried to be very obliging to a fan as much as they could. Some of the drivers seemed a bit more popular than others. But, that is the way it was But, all was popular in their own way it just depend on the fan. Once again i am deeply sorry to hear that this HUGE ICONIC!!!! company is no longer more. I thought it went bust , huge debt , liquidation or some other reason. But, i honestly thought that is impossible. . But, like many thousands of others we are so very sorry to hear E. Stobart haulage is no longer no more certainly not the way we loved it. 😂😮😯😟😟😟😟
Dentresangle ?
That's all that Stobart drivers were good for, soaking up the perceived "glory" at truckfests and shows and waving at their "adoring "fans as they drove by. Total tossers the entire lot of them. Ask any of them to tie a dolly and they'd stand there scratching their empty heads.
Anyone remember Microsoft Sam?
Shame was once recognised as a very good hauler unfortunately the standers of their drivers and diversity has let down all there hard work that’s a lesson other haulers need to think about
I take it you’re not in the haulage industry?
Im dure ive seen stobart trucks with the stobart logo in the culina typeface, culina bought out stobart after their ladt bankruptcy i think.
They have gotten hold of a number of companies. I think the bit they got was the Tesco contract.
Stobart thought they could deliver a load to Tesco then go to another customer around the corner for a load of whatever. Didn't realise they had to take stuff back to the depo..🤡.
Drivers given unrealistic targets and times to get from A to B.
@@michaelwalker1145 Culina hasn’t just taken over the Stobart Tesco contract they’ve taken everything as well as another 6 well known hauliers and they’ve still expanding. Talking to one of their drivers recently and he said they’re a joy to work for compared to Stobart.
@@winco68 will they be going the same way as Stobart. Going bust every few years.
Looks like Stobart are still going as I've seen a few of there trucks out and about, or are they just the last to be rebranded.
@@michaelwalker1145 I doubt Culina will go the way of Stobart. They’re a German company wholly owned by the dairy conglomerate Müller that is renowned for efficiency. Transport companies that have been acquired by Culina have remained intact operationally although they’ve been rebranded in Culina livery with the old operator name at the base of the unit cab doors. This enables them to be sold off more easily at a future date if necessary. Trailers are slowly being rebranded with the original operator name on the side in the Culina typeface and Culina on the rear doors/shutters.
It will take years to rebrand/replace all of the original Stobart trailers as there were literally thousands of them although there are now very few Stobart units around in original livery. There are quite a few of the rebranded Culina typeface ‘Stobart’ trailers out there now although i suspect what you saw was an original Stobart trailer being pulled by a yet to be rebranded Stobart unit - a sight that is becoming rarer by the day.
Stobart as we knew it has gone though and few tears have been shed except perhaps by those ‘spotters’ and fans who know little about the industry.
@@winco68 how do you see W S going down the line. Looks to me that they have there fingers in lots of pies so to speak. Going off the different types of trucks they run.
Stoddart is know cullina. No Stoddart no more.
I bet Eddie Stobart is turning in his grave.
Culina own stobart
He died.
Spoken by a fool.
Sorry about that. All future videos are being voiced. I may revisit this topic soon as well with a proper voiceover if that would interest you?
Why comment, since you know your a fool!
Correction.Spoken by a TOOL.
@@Z4Zander correct, you speak from your dad's little pole! You came from his little monkey nut! Not nuts 🤣
OH NO!!! Anyway..........
Love the reference 😂 if you know you know
Not kalina , but CULINA.
L culina
When you keep cutting rates you go out of business good bye and good riddance
Shite company to work for want you out as long as possible
Cowboy outfit
Totally agree with you. And the culina driver's aint much better.... Their TV program that they had was total comedy... The outfit completely undercut the transport rates and the smaller haulage companies didn't stand a chance in competing with Sobarts.... That was the best news I heard when I heard they got bought out.... They got too big too quickly and it serves the idiots right..... Karma's a bitch aint it.?
Yes Agreed.
@@nigelbevan8449 By undercutting other companies they ended up cutting their own throat.
@@ruskie6548 10 out of 10... Could not agree with you more...
Yet another YT video with a terrible AI voice and intonation
Sorry about that. Considering revisiting the topic with a proper voiceover if that would interest you?
@@eastcoasttrainspotting5673 certainly would😀
Never liked him him a bit of a not at great happy day gone and completely forgot got no doubt he has a fat bank account wel money cant buy happnes great day to day ❤❤❤❤
He Died FFS
who are culina ?
Large organisation who have bought out many haulage firms.
Corporate greed got the better of them and good riddence to them (although I do have some sympathy for the displaced workers).