10-4 Magazine November 2021

Truck Show Report: By Eric Hill busy all weekend. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth! A third ingredient to a successful show is tasty food and drinks available to everyone participating in the truck show. Once again, the Fox Lake Sno-Blazers Snowmobile Club had large food and drink booths in the Community Center. They provided a large variety of food and drink offerings that included pork chop plates and sandwiches, shredded chicken plates and sandwiches, cheeseburgers, brat plates and sandwiches, and hot dogs. They also provided a variety of Pepsi and Budweiser products, along with water, to quench everyone’s thirst on a hot truck show weekend. In addition, they also provided coffee and donuts each morning. On Friday evening, a cod dinner was served that included bread, potato salad, and coleslaw. I sampled several of the sandwiches, and can attest that they were delicious! A fourth ingredient to a successful truck show is planned activities during the event. To begin with, there is the registration of trucks participating in the show, which takes place on the west end of Spring Street. Once registered, the trucks travel across Spring Street for everyone to see, before getting parked, so everyone gets a nice preview of the I’ve been regularly attending the Waupun Truck-n-Show in Wisconsin since its beginning. It’s been one of the truck shows at the top of my list to attend every summer. Being from Illinois, it’s a short 3-hour drive to Waupun. I consider this show to be the standard for how one is planned, organized, and executed, and the people there are so nice, as well. The 32nd Waupun Truck-n-Show, held on Friday, August 13, and Saturday, August 14, 2021 at the Waupun Community Center, was yet again a great success. One of the best things about this event is that the community completely supports it. The staff of people who put on this show is outstanding – they put their heart and soul into making it the best show it can be and have much experience doing it. The venue where the show is located, on the grounds near the Waupun Community Center, the high school baseball diamond, and the middle school, is perfect. There is an abundance of space to park many trucks and trailers, and also plenty of parking for attendees. There are 32 vendor spots on the main road, which is Spring Street, that passes in front of the Community Center. It handles all the traffic for the truck show weekend. There are also 48 vendor booths and the food and beverage area located inside the Community Center. It’s the hub of weekend activity, and also where the awards are presented on Saturday afternoon. As always, the weather can be a big determining factor for the success or failure of any show, and thankfully the weather was good this year. There was plenty of sunshine all weekend long, however with that sun came heat and humidity typical in a Wisconsin summer. Good weather brings many trucks and attendees to a show, and this is the first key ingredient to a successful event. Another ingredient for a successful truck show is a variety of good vendors. Counting 10-4 Magazine, there were 35 vendors, including California Custom Products, Tim’s Sports Blocks, AHT Windows, Waukesha State Bank, SJ Trucks, Bumper Girl, American Truck Historical Society (ATHS), Beer City Chapter, Dale Bridge, REACH, Women in Trucking, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Homer’s Towing and Service, Army National Guard, NHH Services, Pomp’s Tires, PDI, Renegade Products, OOIDA, JX Enterprises Peterbilt, Valley Chrome Plating, Jr’s Metal Polishing, Sam’s Little Red Wagon, Evan’s Detailing & Polishing, Big Rig Tees, Say Cheese, Meyer’s Pressure Washers, Kwik Trip, Truck Country, Collins Bille Sweet Wheels, E.H. Wolf & Sons, Big Rig Chrome Shop, Spoerl Trucking, and Midwest Carriers. The 10-4 Magazine booth sat right in front of the Community Center next to Evan’s Polishing booth. It was a perfect location for our booth and contributed to a very successful weekend. We had a great number of 10-4 followers and people stop by the booth to get their free copies of the magazine, centerfolds and posters. Many of these booth visitors also purchased 10-4 t-shirts. It was very 36 10-4 Magazine / November 2021 WISCONSIN NICE!