Falls Township’s Food Truck Festival/Touch a Truck This Weekend

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — The township’s Food Truck Festival and Touch a Truck events return this weekend to Falls Township Community Park.

The Food Truck Festival kicks off the two-day community events beginning Friday at 6 p.m. with a variety of food truck fare, live music from Fish Out of Water, children’s activities, including Anywhere Mini Golf, a beer garden for guests 21+ with proceeds benefiting Fairless Hill Fire Department, and ending with fireworks at 9 p.m.

Attendees can purchase food from any of the following food trucks during Friday evening’s festival: Chick-fil-A, Bristol Smokehouse, Kona Ice NJ, Foxy’s Funnel Cakes, Spuddy Buddy Fry Factory, Travelin’ Tom’s Coffee Truck, The Borsch Belt and Barrio Street Eats.

Touch a Truck takes place on Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m.

Featuring dozens of large trucks, excavators, towing vehicles, emergency response vehicles and various types of heavy machinery, the township’s annual event kicks off with a sensory friendly quiet hour until 10 a.m.

Truck operators will refrain from flashing their lights or blowing their air horns during this time.

Touch a Truck continues until 1 p.m. and includes balloon artistry from Myers Designs LLC, bounce houses from Ultimate Party Rentals, as well as Selfie Smiles Photo Booth. Falls Soccer Club will be selling food and drink at the concession stand. The Bucks County Sheriff’s Office will also be on hand providing child identification kits.

Touch a Truck offers a unique opportunity for children to learn about how various vehicles serve as first response, construction, electrical, farming, manufacturing and more. Since the fundraising event began in 2017, sponsors have contributed more than $160,000, which Falls Township donates to various charities. This year’s event benefits Pennsbury’s Parent Teacher Organizations.

Inclusion has remained integral. Organizers have ensured sensory-friendly activities and a variety of community-oriented festivities each year.

Touch a Truck will feature fire and emergency service vehicles, a school bus, and Falls Township mowers and trucks. KPK Development Co. is the presenting sponsor. Event sponsors who will be bringing trucks include J.G. Crozier Contractors, Inc., Waste

Management, IBEW Local 269, Armour & Sons Electric, Inc., Family Fuel, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, We Buy Any House Fast, Just Stumps, and Russo Acquisition and Construction.

Clarke Gallagher Barbiero Amuso & Glassman Law, Jones Engineering Associates, Grace Construction, Yard Truck Specialists, Remington & Vernick Engineers, Inc., and Bayard Pump & Tank Co., Inc. are also sponsoring the event. 

(Theresa Katalinas)