Truckster - Find Food Trucks

ETA 6/15/23: another food truck summer rolls around and I was hoping that Truckster addressed their privacy practices in their latest update. Still haven’t. They still ask for permission to know your location even though there is no reason they need it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. AND THEY ASK YOU 5 TIMES ONCE YOU SAY NO IN DIFFERENT WAYS. Just so you know, this is a quintessential example of what the Federal Trade Commission calls dark patterns … and it is very much illegal. *. *. *. It is OBNOXIOUS that it takes multiple clicks plus a return from settings to ignore the ask for my location EVERY TIME YOU USE THE APP. I know where I live. You do not need to know this. If I have told you I don’t want to provide that information, STOP ASKING. I have major privacy concerns with this app.

Love this app and those that work for it like Katelyn! I needed to book a food truck and this app & Katelyn helped me find & book a food truck with minimal hassle for the date I wanted.

Trying to preorder for a neighborhood event and the app keeps crashing. Great support for small business.

Awesome easy AND helpful!

Just an average review. I downloaded this based on a recommendation from a friend. I live in College Station, TX. Truckster has no service here. The app says there is service in Houston so I tried looking there. No trucks populated. I know there are many food trucks in Houston so there is a problem with the search function for that city. Hopefully they will add service in College Station since it is home to Texas A&M University and fix there Houston search function.

Unfortunately useless for Portland, because it’s missing over a dozen permanent food cart venues, including dozens and dozens of trucks. Some of these carts have been available for years, at the same locations. I can find more food carts and more locations using Apple’s Map app, than I can using Truckster, which is designed specifically for the carts. The application itself is decent. It’s clunky to turn the “detail ribbon“ off and on, but once you get used to it, it’s easy enough to move around the map and spot marked locations. I would be willing to give it a try for another city. But for now, I think they should just remove Portland, Oregon entirely. The developer response to a different review suggested that it had something to do with the cold weather, or “lack of events“, but that seems unlikely — as mentioned above, these carts are easily found in other apps, and Internet searches, and have been located at the same address for years.

Hands down, Truckster is the best app for finding and booking food trucks. The customer service is unparalleled and they helped make my event scheduling easy. Definitely hit these guys up for food truck catering.

Either dead app or not updating for Portland

Love using this app to order my food :)

This is a great app to find food trucks that are near and far. Definitely worth downloading to find food trucks near you and available trucks for catering and events!