10-4 Magazine November 2021

10-4 Magazine / November 2021 37 trucks being displayed that weekend. This event, among other activities, also includes a Friday night light parade, then another parade on Saturday afternoon. The Friday night light parade is a thing of beauty. Everyone on the truck show grounds (and also the community) are actively involved with this event. Townspeople begin reserving their spots along the parade route beginning Friday morning. Anticipation builds throughout the day, and the parade begins right after dark. The beautiful sounds of Jake brakes, revving diesel engines, and loud truck and train horns fills the night air of this small town in central Wisconsin. But the best of all are the beautiful trucks and trailers, with their many bright lights, glowing in the evening sky. It truly is a sight and sound to behold. This year’s Friday night light parade took almost three hours to complete. Both parades hold auctions where participants bid on positions before the parades begin to raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. The top nine spots for each parade were auctioned off, with the first spot on Friday night going to Gary Geib for $1,800 and the first spot on Saturday afternoon going to Jerry Kissinger for $4,000. All told, the parade auctions raised over $23,000 for the Make-a-Wish Foundation! Live music was presented both Friday and Saturday night, and there was no cost to listen to the bands play. Friday night, the group Riding Shotgun provided the evening entertainment, while Saturday night’s great musical entertainment was provided by Royal South and Vice Versa inside the Waupun Community Center. I listened to all three groups and truly enjoyed the music they played. The final ingredient for a successful show is a variety of trucks and trailers that participate, and Wisconsin always delivers. There was great participation and many impressive trucks – nearly 300 – that participated in this year’s Waupun Truck-n-Show. It was truly an amazing display of some of the finest equipment in the Midwest. It seems a new standard is established each year at this show with the astounding number of high-quality trucks. I toured the show field several times, taking photos for this show report, and had a front row seat in