Touch-a-Truck

By The Molokai Dispatch Staff
Kids love trucks.
“I think it’s the infatuation with trucks being so big, with the noises, the sounds” said Chanelle Beruan, general manager at Makoa Trucking.
On March 28, Makoa Trucking invited Na Kamali’i Hoaloha preschool to the inaugural Touch-a-Truck event at the Makoa baseyard near the Kaunakakai Wharf. Students in the class got to meet with Makoa truck drivers, beep the horns and check out a variety of equipment from refrigerated containers to flatbeds to forklifts.
Mostly though, the kids were just excited to see the huge machines, explained Beruan.
“Some [of the kids] were just in awe,” she said.…