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Kids explore, learn equipment at city’s annual Touch-A-Truck By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. —Amid a chorus of honking horns from the biggest of its big rigs, families flocked to Johns Creek City Hall for the city’s annual Touch-A-Truck May 18. The display, which ran from 10 a.m. to noon, featured construction, utility and landscaping equipment, school buses and fire trucks. A DJ and on-site food trucks added sound and smell to the giant visuals that hundreds of visitors enjoyed. Johns Creek Public Works Director Chris Haggard said the city has hosted Touch-A-Truck since 2010, originally at Newtown Park, and that it’s always scheduled the Saturday before National Public Works Week. “[Touch-A-Truck] just makes them aware of what we do…,” Haggard said. “They see these types of equipment on the side of the road all the time in their neighborhoods. This gives them a chance to be up close and talk to the actual contractor, touch the trucks, get in them, get photos, feel good about it.” John Bedingfield, commercial mower specialist with Ag-Pro, and Matt Gerich, branch manager for Yellowstone Landscape, brought a couple of John Deeres. One was a John Deere 5120M series
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A man shows a young boy the bucket of Vertical Earth’s Komatsu PC138, a longtail swing excavator with rubber tracks used for city road construction, at the Johns Creek annual Touch-A-Truck event May 18. Hundreds of visitors had the opportunity to explore construction, utility and landscape equipment, fire trucks and school buses, and honk horns, at City Hall.
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