Posted on 03 July 2025 by Chris Brown.
You’ve seen these mighty machines on city streets and now is your chance to get an up-close look and learn all about them.
Medicine Hat Public Library is hosting our inaugural all ages Big Truck Day at Big Marble Go Centre on Saturday, July 5, from 11 a.m. -2 p.m.
The Big Marble Go Centre parking lot will be filled with close to a dozen trucks of all shapes and sizes.
The City of Medicine Hat will bring vehicles such as a grader, a bulldozer, a backhoe and a street sweeper. Medicine Hat Fire and Emergency Services will have fire truck there, Medicine Hat Police Service will be there with its armoured rescue vehicle and Alberta Health Services will have an ambulance. Staff from each organization will be there to show people around the vehicle, explain what they do and how they work. There may even be opportunities to sit inside some of them.
“I got to go around and sit in the fire truck and the armoured police vehicle and a bunch of the construction vehicles,” says Miranda Leduc, adult and community librarian. “And it is very cool. I thought it wouldn't be, but it was very cool to go and actually sit and see how high up they sit and all the different buttons and stuff in them.”
Leduc is putting together the event along with youth services library assistant Karla Gaetz. The pair say they think it’s important community to see the different vehicles that operate in the city and learn what they do on the roads or in emergency situations.
Kids and kids-at-heart of all ages are already excited to put the pedal to metal and get to Big Truck Day.
“I feel like people think it's targeted towards kids, and I guess it is because kids are going to think, ‘Oh, big trucks. Let's go see them.’ But I've been speaking to some adults and they seem very keen on coming to check out the construction vehicles, police vehicle and firetruck,” Leduc says. “To be honest, when we were at the fire station, the firefighters were very excited about the police armoured truck. So I think everybody just really likes big trucks.”
For some of the smallest big truck fans ages 4-6 years old there will be a Big Truck Day Storytime with truck-themed stories and songs at 10:30 a.m. inside Big Marble Go Centre. Registration is required at www.mhpl.info/register.
There will also be four food trucks – Loaded Cravings, Pickelo Kitchens, Millie’s Sodas & Sweets and D.L. Snack Shack – there to keep people fueled at the lunchtime event. More trucks may be added before July 5.
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