Touch-a-Truck

Photo courtesy of Chanelle Beruan

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.

Beruan explained that several of the students even brought their own model trucks from home to the field trip, in order to properly compare with the real deal. At the Touch-a-Truck event, students likewise learned about how much of the Molokai supply chain is dependent on connecting the barge with locations on island via trucking.

Overall, Touch-a-Truck “was a big hit,” said Beruan. She hopes to make the event a yearly occurrence.