Sunday 21st November 1954

Born on this day, Edward Stobart Jnr, British haulage company owner who first became involved with his father’s company aged 15 in 1969, and subsequently expanded it into one of the UK’s most well known multimodal logistics companies. Eddie Stobart Ltd. is the largest privately owned haulage company in the United Kingdom, with a turnover of around £150M per annum. Stobart died on 31 March 2011 in a Coventry hospital of what was termed ‘heart problems’.