Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers Episode Rating Graph

Mark anticipates a manic Monday as he sets off to Swindon to deliver a full load of soft drinks. He manages to dodge the traffic, but at the end of the day he winds up with only half an hour left to tip, reload and park before his driving hours run out. At the massive Daventry warehouse, Jon is in charge of getting 36 containers of goods onto a train bound for Scotland. Ian drives the reach stacker, lifting each container onto the train in a race against the clock. If they fail to make their deadline, they face fines from Network Rail, especially if they hold up passenger trains. Elsewhere, preparations for the annual Stobart Fest are underway. Thirty vehicles need to be transported to Carlisle to be scrubbed clean and put on display. The weather is doing no one any favours and Mark struggles to find a trailer at the Carlisle depot. Meanwhile, Mick is ready to show off his new mean machine – the Mercedes Zetros. In Inverness in Scotland, a trainload of freight has arrived and Andy is waiting for his trailer to be loaded with stock, which is due at a supermarket down the road. He is very close to home, but has a long wait to go off duty as his trailer is last on the list for loading. Stobart Fest turns out to be the largest and most successful of the company’s festivals to date. This year’s event features live displays of the log wagon, the biomass truck and the car transporter as well as machines from the rail division and even a plane! Raffle tickets are selling like hot cakes as the first prize is the opportunity to name a truck.

Tim Fox embarks on an epic biomass delivery, starting in Cumbria, going on to Northumberland and ending at a power station in Scotland. A mechanical fault develops on the walking-floor trailer, however, which threatens to bring the whole delivery to a halt. On the hunt for new trucks, Head of Fleet David Cox flies out to the Volvo factory in Sweden to size up the next generation of tractor units. Claims that these new models can cut emissions by up to 80% are an appealing proposition and David hopes to be able to increase the fuel efficiency of the fleet.

This week, there are major jobs in store for Stobart’s rail team. Ian ‘Spit’ Wilson has to deliver a 15-tonne rail repair machine, known as the Gopher, to Sunderland. He battles through traffic and heavy rain, but then has to get the monster machine on to the rails. Along the way, we learn where his unusual nickname comes from. Trainee Dan Metcalfe has his first ever shift in charge of the Gopher, carrying out overnight repairs to the line just south of Sunderland. But almost as soon as he gets started, things begin to go wrong. Will the team be able to get the job done before the trains start running again? Trucking favourite Matt Ekins makes a return to his spiritual home. He goes on a tour of the East Midlands on a multi-drop mission, but it seems that around every corner is another massive queue .Will he manage to make all his deliveries on time? Fitter Chris Lacey has a real challenge on his hands when he ‘wraps’ a brand new model in the Stobart branded livery for the first time. As the truck is a new and unfamiliar shape, Chris must work out the new wrap design, getting each of the sections in exactly the right place. As anyone who has ever put up wallpaper knows, it is not an easy job. Mark Dixon and his leading lady, faithful truck Phoebe Grace, come to the end of the road together. It has been a three-year romance, but it is now time for her to retire gracefully. There is a surprise in store for Mark, however, when he is introduced to his new truck and sees her name!

Biomass trucker and self-confessed foodie Tim is on day three of a strict diet as he embarks on a journey across Scotland. With a fondness for haggis and all things fried, Tim will require an iron resolve to resist temptation. The trip proves eventful as a road closure results in a detour and a delivery to an unusual power station offers a rare chance to go behind the scenes. Southend Airport is experiencing its busiest month of the year as the British public take to the skies during the peak holiday season. Cameras join fire fighter Darren on a routine patrol of the airfield and discover his cunning scare tactics during a chance encounter with some stubborn wildlife. Tanker-driving teacher Mark escapes the classroom to make a delivery in Carlisle. Meanwhile in Lockerbie, new recruit and boss’s son Adam is getting to grips with his new three-tonne crane. His truck, Sienna Belle, is Stobart’s second fully operational log wagon and in a bid to prove that he has got what it takes to cut it on the timber trail, Adam sets himself an ambitious target.

The team waterproof a railway bridge across the M6.

£55million is invested in 750 brand-new trucks. One of the drivers decides to start a healthy eating plan in an effort to loose weight.

Tim's weight becomes an issue. Aidan's load is a bit tipsy. A test drive is taken by Andy.

20 young hopefuls battle it out to try and win 10 places available on the firm's apprenticeship scheme. Tim Fox is out in his biomass juggernaut to deliver recyclable garden waste in dangerously high winds.

The famous London Piccadilly lights need moving, a biomass trailer goes missing and it is panic stations when the haulage firm's first-ever trucking festival needs a last-minute change of venue.

In this opening episode, Ashley Maddocks and Craig Garside head north to appear at Truck Fest Scotland. On the way, Ashley has a drop-off in Livingston, but en route he gets word of a traffic jam that could delay his arrival at the festival. Unfortunately for Craig, he fails to hear the traffic report and ends up right in the middle of it. At Truck Fest Scotland, the Stobart boys are the hit of the festival with crowds of people waiting to meet them. Then Craig and Mick face their driving rivals in the ultimate trucking test as they go head-to-head with the Ice Road Truckers in a truck-off! Whowill be crowned King of the Road?

It is full speed ahead in Stobart’s rail and air divisions as the company’s reach grows ever larger, but trucking remains at the heart of the business and the new car transporter division brings in loads worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. For biomass trucker Craig Garside, collecting clay pellets from a factory in Goole presents an unwelcome mathematical problem. Just as he thinks that his troubles are over, he runs into some nasty fog. Will he manage to get his pellets to the concrete factory on time? In the Midlands, this is a happy day for Matt Ekins, who is turning his back on the classroom and his role as a driver trainer and going back to his spiritual home – the road. The temptation of the tarmac proved too much of a pull and Matt is delighted to be driving out of the new Rugby depot. However, he soon gets a dose of trucking reality when he is caught in a traffic snarl-up, threatening to derail his first delivery.

The truckers demonstrate the precautions they must take to discourage stowaways.

In the first episode of this celebration of the work of the haulage firm, Welsh wizard Ashley Maddocks has the day from hell when a runaway bull plays havoc with his delivery. Elsewhere, an enormous convoy of 16 trucks sets off on a 1,200-mile road trip delivering a two million pound Mercedes motor home to the Spanish Grand Prix. Do they have time to pull off a photo shoot at the famous Millau Bridge in France on the way? Finally, driver trainer Lee Dowling has a terrible time on the streets of London when he tries to move a legendary landmark – a section of the famous Piccadilly lights.

A treacherous 500-mile mission sees a 25 tonne load of logs being transported from an icy Scottish forest to the garden of England in Kent. Mark Dixon has huge problems as the job hits the skids. BioMass maestro Tim Fox collects 27 tonnes of salt from the oldest working salt mine in the UK to take to Kent, where it will be spread on the roads to make winter driving safer. At Stobart's Southend Airport, a brand new state-of-the-art plane de-icer has just been added to the elite fleet. It is immediately put to the test to dispel the deadly winter frost, but it is a tricky technical job with a host of hidden dangers. Finally, Welsh wizard Ashley Maddocks finds himself driving out of his homeland and into trucking hell, as he battles the nightmare of London traffic on a multi-drop day.

In Stobart’s very own ‘War of the Roses’ there is a Battle of the Biomass, as Lancashire man Tim Fox takes on Yorkshire’s Craig Garside in a race to deliver a shared load to North Wales. With 200 miles of tarmac standing between the truckers and their destination, who will be the first to deliver his sawdust, and will it be on time?

A mega convoy of 16 brand new Stobart trucks sets off.

Fiona gets hot under the collar delivering 26 tonnes of ice.

One of the long-distance lorry drivers ends up thaving a nightmare journey around London. A new recruit is trained and a crane pilot tries to unload a freight train in record time.

Biomass trucker Craig Garside is undaunted at taking on a 172-mile journey delivering a mucky load of loose peat. For someone as experienced as Craig it should be a piece of cake, but will an unexpected wall of freezing fog around the Pennines stop him in his tracks? Multi-drop maestro Dave Pickerill faces his worst nightmare. He has two days to make ten deliveries on his least favourite route, the outskirts of London. Will he be able to beat the London traffic and complete his marathon? Mild-mannered Andy Thornton prides himself on being on time, every time. For this long-haul trucker, travelling the length and breadth of the country is all in a day’s work. A 278-mile trek from Middlesbrough to Magor in Monmouthshire should be no problem, but a nasty surprise awaits when a motorway accident forces Andy to take a huge cross-country detour.

Jimmy Callaghan does battle with some troublesome bollards.

In Scotland, new driver to the series Paul Steele puts his brand new truck to the test on one of Britain’s most dangerous roads. Can his new home – with a cab to rival the plushest hotel suite – stand up to snow and ice? He has a load of plants to deliver and hopes that they will survive the trip as temperatures outside plummet. Also braving the freak winter weather up North is tanker driver Mark Ashurst. Facing freezing conditions on a night drive through the Lake District, he must get his load of fuel to the company’s Carlisle depot in order to keep the trucks on the road. Down at Southampton docks, transporter driver Gareth Ayres is facing a somewhat different challenge. He must safely load £1m worth of luxury motors in dwindling daylight, then drive through the rain and dark to reach a safe overnight stop. If his valuable load is not delivered to two car dealerships intact and without a scratch, he could find himself in hot water.

Some former members of the armed forces keep the company's wheels turning. The firm helps out following the devastating Workington floods.

The bosses' thoroughbred horses are dispatched to Newmarket.

Biomass driver Tim drives to a recycling plant to pick up a load of recycled sawdust that needs to be taken to a cattle farm. Bad drivers, traffic jams, wrong directions and some tight squeezes end up causing him some anger issues. Paul temporarily gives up his desk job for life on the road as a long distance lorry driver.

Fiona ends up having a trucking nightmare as she finds it hard to gets to grips with making deliveries to Bolton supermarkets in a new trailer she has never used before. Eddie Murphy has to pick up some containers from Felixstowe docks. The Stobart airport team at Southend are called into action after waste accidently spills from a plane onto the runway.

Trucker Jimmy Callaghan battles freak snowy weather.