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Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  Get 'em Gonçalo on Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:01 am

The Stobart Group have joined the search for Madeleine McCann who disappeared in Portugal in May 2007. They have a brand new trailer which has been designed to give maximum publicity to trying to find her.

The photo is courtesy of and copyrighted to Lee Elliott.






Source: http://www.lorryspotting.com/newsArticle.asp?nID=1123959833


But this Eddie found her first


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Re: Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  Autumn on Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:10 am

At first I thought this was a late April Fool's prank. How on earth has the Eddie Stobart group got involved, were they approached by TM - this is getting beyond sick? tearhairout

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Re: Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  justagrannynow 1 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:30 am

I understand the transport industry are experiencing hard times with the increased fuel costs. Maybe Eddie Stobart have been offered an incentive.

Hope they don't do any runs to Portugal, or meet any of the Portuguese truckers in Europe. If I see any going through France I'll let you know.

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Re: Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  baconbutty on Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:42 am

Stobart's trucking HQ is based in Warrington, Cheshire.
Could be therefore that Stobart's people have been rubbing shoulders with Kennedy's people at some local business function and have been persuaded that this stunt would be mutually beneficial.
All speculation on my part, but perfectly possible.
TM perpetuate the myth that Maddie is still alive on the motorways of the UK, and Stobart acquire the label of 'caring haulage company'.

Vested self-interest, mutual back-scratching. IMHO.

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Re: Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  justagrannynow 1 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:46 pm

How old is this news? I can't access the MM forum, but doing a google I found this. Apparently this was being discussed Sept 2009 !!!!




Edited to add, there are two different lorries in the photographs. Has anybody seen either of them yet ?

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Post  Get 'em Gonçalo on Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:12 pm

I found the link on JATYK and they were linking to Rosieplops blog and it was posted on Monday...so thought it was fairly new

http://justice4mccannfam.5forum.biz/media-statements-stories-f34/eddie-stobart-trucks-and-madeleine-t2683.htm


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Post  Get 'em Gonçalo on Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:16 pm

The properties on both photos from the original site says they were created on 15.4.10 which is today

But on their news site it says this:

Madeleine McCann Stobart join search
Date Added: 23/03/2010

The Stobart Group have joined the search for Madeleine McCann who disappeared in Portugal in May 2007. They have a brand new trailer which has been [ more... ]



http://www.lorryspotting.com/news.asp

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Post  justagrannynow 1 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:34 pm

Either more shenanigans or someone on MM can see into the future. wow

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Re: Eddie Stobart joins search for missing Maddie

Post  justagrannynow 1 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:42 pm

Here's another one, August 2009 !!!


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Post  justagrannynow 1 on Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:38 pm

It looks as though good old Eddie Stobart, who is being lauded along with his brother on Rosiepops forum, doesn't actually own the firm any longer. Sold it in 2003 !!!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/no-more-eddie-stobart-spotting-hes-selling-up-583526.html

No more Eddie Stobart spotting... he's selling up

By Barrie Clement, Transport Editor

Thursday, 16 October 2003



Eddie Stobart shocked Britain's lorry spotters yesterday when he revealed he had sold his eponymous haulage company to an international property development and civil engineering business.

The 48-year-old Cumbrian ­ motto "keep on trucking" ­ is to retire from what has become a national institution to spend more time with his partner and three-year-old daughter.

Mr Stobart built up the business to become Britain's biggest privately owned road haulier. His father gave him the company, an offshoot of his agricultural contracting business, in 1970. It now has 1,000 trucks, depots throughout Britain and even a fan club.

Eddie Stobart Promotions, part of the Carlisle-based group, has developed a line of Stobart paraphernalia, including toy lorries and T-shirts. The Sunday Times rich list puts the wealth of the Stobart brothers ­ brother William part-owns the business ­ at £60m.

"The secret is never to have an empty truck," says Mr Stobart. "If you take lemonade down somewhere, bring water back up. The trucks must be 100 per cent loaded all the time."

The company, which has been strongly identified with Cumbria, announced this summer that its administrative centre was moving from Carlisle to Merseyside. Its links with the region were further weakened when Mr Stobart put his home near Carlisle up for sale last month for £2.2m, saying he needed to be closer to business interests in the south and closer to a major airport. "My private life has been in Cumbria but I'm forced to spend more and more time away," he said. "I want to have my main home down south and a weekend home in Cumbria. At the moment it's the other way around."

Mr Stobart was an outspoken critic of the Government during the fuel protests in 2000, threatening to register half his fleet abroad to take advantage of lower taxes.

Andrew Tinkler, managing director of WA Developments (International), the new owner, said last night: "As far as we are concerned it will be business as usual for Eddie Stobart." The company name and red and green livery will be retained.

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