Packaged items donated by attendees for local food banks will be loaded into a pickup truck at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Olivia Isas, 7, sits between her brothers, Benjamin, 5, and Feliz, 2, in the back of a garbage truck on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Families are shown interacting with vehicles of all shapes, sizes and functions at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
3-year-old Kingston Harmon from Long Beach is on a tractor at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
This year’s Touch-a-Truck event is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 7 in the beach parking lot at 1 Granada Ave. These file photos show Long Beach’s Kingston Harmon in a tractor on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (File photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Brian Harmon of Long Beach carries his 3-year-old son, Kingston, on Saturday, May 7, 2022 as they explore the dozens of vehicles at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Luke Pheasant, 6, from Santa Ana, climbs off a City of Long Beach tractor at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Young people feel at home in a tractor loader on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Long Beach’s Ryan Naemark fiddles around in a military jeep at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Ryan Naemark, left, and Bryan Garrison of Long Beach sit in a military jeep at Touch-A-Truck in Belmont Shore on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Photo by Howard Freshman, contributing photographer)
Tractors and garbage trucks. Ambulances and fire trucks. Semis and dump trucks.
And plenty of kids behind the wheel. But don’t worry, the vehicles were parked.
It was all part of the seventh annual Long Beach Touch-A-Truck event on Sunday, May 7 at the Granada Avenue parking lot in Belmont Shore. Hosted by Justin Rudd and his Community Action Team, the event featured about 100 vehicles for kids and their families to view, explore — and, yes, touch.
And the doors were open so they could sit behind the wheels.
Touch-A-Truck is one of Long Beach’s most popular – and tactile – events, usually drawing thousands.
At Sunday’s event, large crowds once again converged on the parking lot, with countless vehicles on display — and many children certainly shouted, “Vroom, vroom.”
