The founder of the Eddie Stobart trucking firm was born in 1929 in Cumbria and worked as a farmer before becoming the famous face of the business which named every new truck
Famed trucking firm founder Eddie Stobart has died, his representatives confirmed this morning.
Mr Stobart, whose full name was Eddie Pears Stobart, initially set up a small agricultural firm in 1946 that carried out contract work for farms and distributed fertiliser.
He also ran a farm shop, with the business becoming the family-named trucking firm later in the 1940s, with the firm’s first lorry, a second-hand Guy Invincible four-wheeler, hitting UK roads in 1960.
The truck debuted in the famous Eddie Stobart green and red colouring.
Mr Stobart died on November 25 aged 95, at the head of a company that now owns and operates more than 2,500 vehicles, but he has taken a backseat in the business over the last few decades.
His youngest son took over the firm in the 1970s while trying to make a name of his own, and was able to turn it into the haulage giant it is today.
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