Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers is a documentary television programme series made by Princess Productions

Princess Productions

Princess Productions is a London-based television production company started in September 1996 by Henrietta Conrad and Sebastian Scott which has produced broadcast shows and pilots for all the major British broadcasters across a variety of genres, mainly specialising in entertainment and factual...

 for Channel 5

Channel 5

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 and broadcast on Channel 5 (UK)

Channel 5

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About the show

Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers features some of the day-to-day activities of the Stobart Group

Stobart Group

Stobart Group Ltd is a large British multimodal logistics company, with interests in Transport and Distribution, Estates, Infrastructure and Civils, Air and Biomass, through operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium...

, the UK logistics

Logistics

Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...

 company, with a particular focus on its Eddie Stobart road haulage division.

It is narrated by Ben Crowe.

History

The first episode broadcast on 24 September 2010 and was released on DVD in July 2011.

A second series was aired in 2011.

Episode guide

Ed Stobart and April Stobart, the children of Stobart Group

Stobart Group

Stobart Group Ltd is a large British multimodal logistics company, with interests in Transport and Distribution, Estates, Infrastructure and Civils, Air and Biomass, through operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium...

 Chief Operating Officer

Chief operating officer

A Chief Operating Officer or Director of Operations can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the "C-Suite"...

 William Stobart

William Stobart

William Stobart is the current Chief Operating Officer of the Stobart Group Limited.He currently lives in his newly built home at Peover Superior in Cheshire....

, featured in Episode 7 of Series 2 of Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers, originally aired on 30 June 2011. Ed Stobart passed his HGV Class 2 driving licence through System Training, based opposite Carlisle Lake District Airport. April Stobart went along to the driving school to show her support on the day of his test.

Ed Stobart works part-time for the Stobart Group as a gardener. He is also a professional Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player for the Sale Sharks

Sale Sharks

Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union club who play in England in the Aviva Premiership.The club is an offshoot of Sale FC, which is based at Heywood Road in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C.Part of the...

 and plays for the Stobart Group's Polo

Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 team. April Stobart is an Accounts Administrator in the Carlisle Office of the Stobart Biomass Products division of the Stobart Group.

See also

• Stobart Group
  Stobart Group
  Stobart Group Ltd is a large British multimodal logistics company, with interests in Transport and Distribution, Estates, Infrastructure and Civils, Air and Biomass, through operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium...
  
  
• Eddie Stobart
• Carlisle Lake District Airport
• London Southend Airport
  London Southend Airport
  London Southend Airport or Southend Airport is a regional airport in the district of Rochford within Essex, England.During the 1960s, Southend was the third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom. It remained London's third-busiest airport in terms of passengers handled until the end of the 1970s,...
  
  
• Edward Stobart
  Edward Stobart
  Edward Stobart was a 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, Stobart Group...
  
  
• William Stobart
  William Stobart
  William Stobart is the current Chief Operating Officer of the Stobart Group Limited.He currently lives in his newly built home at Peover Superior in Cheshire....
  
  
• Ed Stobart
• April Stobart

External links

• Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers on the Channel 5 website
• Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers Series One Created by Princess Productions and released by Delta on DVD in 4 a disc box set June 2011, with Series Two to follow in October 2011