Cool Eddie

To  travel  the roads and caches of the whole caching  world... and stay 'cool'.

This cool little Eddie Stobart Temperature Controlled Distrubition  truck has a full tank of fuel and is ready  for adventures, perhaps he could have his photo taken  with other Stobart trucks along  the journey.

If taken to  events, please ensure heis logged both in and out correctly  as several bugs have gone to meets and then have simply vanished, thanks.

A small corgi diecast Scania truck, with  a green cab and cool white trailer. Attached to  the truck is a bright personalised travel track tag, a gift from badgerbaby [thanks bb!] and a small keyring  giving  a brief insight to the simple mission.

Eddie P. Stobart (born 1929 to parents John and Adelaide) is a British businessman who started an agriculture business in the late 1940s. This became Eddie Stobart Ltd in 1970, expanded to a haulage company during the 1970s with the help of his late son Edward Stobart who gradually took over the running of the company during the 1970s and 1980s, and then became a multi-modal logistics public company the Stobart Group in 2007 under the control of another son William Stobart.

Eddie Stobart has a long tradition of giving its trucks female names. The first four owned by Eddie Stobart were named after model "Twiggy" and singers "Tammy" (Wynette), "Dolly" (Parton) and "Suzi" (Quatro). Names are now often chosen with connections to drivers, or to commemorate long-serving employees. The practice has been expanded to cover other Stobart vehicles, including their sponsored sports cars and the Stobart Rail locomotive "Eddie the Engine".

With the expansion of the fleet, names have become harder to choose, and the fleet now features "Tuula Karina" (Finnish), "Angharrad" (Welsh), "Anstice" and "Saoirse Erin" (Irish, meaning 'Free Ireland'). Currently the vehicles with the shortest and longest names are "Nia" and "Gladys Duchess of Overton", both on Scania R420s.

There are some exceptions to the female naming convention (including Eddie the Engine). In 2005, in celebration of 20 years of Transformers Stobart named a MAN tractor "Optimus Prime" and recently during the filming of a television series entitled "Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers" a Volvo FH12 was christened "Valentino" after Valentino Rossi, the legendary Italian motorcycle racer, which caused a furore among spotters. They have a static Volvo FH in the "Glasshouse" at their Crick depot which is named in honour of fusilier "Lee Rigby".

Hope you  enjoy this Tb, and can  spot some names on  the trucks whilst out caching, enjoy WW