One of our drivers reckoned you could put Stobart drivers in 2 categories,
Group 1 was normal drivers, just that they worked for Stobart and not somebody else,
Group 2 he described as Eddie’s marines. They thought they were something special because they worked for Eddie and anybody who worked for another haulier was dirt.
You can delete all the bold red type and put in any name you like. All the large companies operate like this. Look at Murfitts 
Wheel Nut:
You can delete all the bold red type and put in any name you like. All the large companies operate like this. Look at Murfitts
This is probably true.
Someone I know drove for Pete Osborne for many years. After he sold out to Stillers, the job went down the pan.
He is now working for Osborne again at his new company, Innovate Logistics.
Mind you, he is a bit annoyed that he has had to downgrade wagons. he used to drive a T cab Scania 164. Now he just drives a Volvo FH 12 460 Globetrotter!
When we got our redundancy notice at Fed Ex Eddie Stobbart we interviewing for the new depot at Rugby and used Rugby truck stop, During one lunch hour at the truck stop a asked the human resouces woman for Eddie for some application forms for all our drivers, She told me not to interupt her meal. Some weeks later I noticed her in the shop there and asked her again.
Me) “Excuse me, do you remeber me ?”
Her) “Yes, I remember you, you wanted some application forms”
Me) " They still havn’t arrived and we finish in 4 weeks"
Her) “I don’t like being interupted during lunch and I certainly don’t like being accosted elsewhere”
I waited a second or two before my answer, then I said, “It’s not for me, it’s for all the other drivers, they are good hard working lads and have families to support, … Personaly, I wouldn’t work for a tight firsted miserly old git like Eddie Stobbart if it was the last place on earth, and I certainly wouldn’t work for some stuck up ■■■■■ like you, so stuff you applications” 
robB39:
If you go to work for Stobarts be prepared to eat S’ (S’=Shoe-shine)
A side issue to the thread.
robB, why bother with all that, just type in [zb]. We all know what it means .
(In case anyone doesn’t, The first (I think) moderator on TruckNet UK, whose name shall be legend 
, was Zzarbean. When he “moderated” a post, he typed in [zb] in place of what shouldn’t have been there. That let you know you had misbehaved and who had caught you at it . We still do that, but usually tell you what you have done and sign it at the bottom of your post.)
Theres nothing like gettin to the point pat!!! 
anyways i have decided not to go with it, as they want me to take a 45 minute driving test with them, and i have had four tests over the last couple of months and my nerves won’t take it just yet 
i have found four companies that will take me on without a driving test so i am gonna decide which one i go for next week, when i get my licence back
but thanks for all the replies
Eddie Stobbart have opened a depot in Thailand, Every driver must be married to a Tie
The Boy Scouts have cancelled ‘Bob a Job’ this year because Eddie Stobbart have undercut them
what is it with a tie and stobarts?? am i missing a something here 
Margate the drivers used to have to wear a shirt and tie to give the company a good corporate image nothing wrong with that as far as i can see but they stopped them wearing the ties a year or two ago .
P.S. if you get the job and you are ever near Newark-On-Trent on a night out can i bring my lad down to see the wagon he will think all his birthdays have come at once.
Don’t worry about the Eddie driving test it’s a drive out of the yard up the road along the motorway U turn at first exit back to yard park the trailer between two others, voila you’re in.
It’s just to make sure you can handle the gear box, a loaded wagon, and park it without shredding a few curtains in the process.
If you do go and work for them I think they still carry two big aluminium reels weighing ten tonne a piece to CMB and nacanco for making cans.
Watch out for them they’ll be out of the curtain, (roundabouts and tight bends) I used to carry some eight inch nails and a hammer and nail them to the trailer.
Anybody remember this rhyme people used to sing to us on the CB
Eddie a little truck,
he put on the road,
and everywhere that Eddie went
he was sure to get your load.
I run the biggest fleet now,
said Eddie with a smirk,
‘Cos he cut the rates across the land,
and took all the truckin’ work!
Theres another verse but I can’t remember it.
i remember stobarts marines they used to think lokeren truckstop was there private resturant and parking area and they always had to park there units out front so everybody could see em .
I always used to think it strange they dropped the trailers in the Stobart yard which is all of 3 or 400 metres down the road then drove up in the units.