Home › Food Truck Regulations Short answer: a food truck is the right choice if you serve different locations every day, want a one-vehicle setup that is always ready to go, and you do not mind paying more for the chassis. A food trailer is the right choice if you operate from a fixed location […]
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Short answer: yes, in nearly every state and county. A commissary kitchen (sometimes called a commercial kitchen or central preparation facility) is a permitted commercial-grade kitchen where you do food prep, dishwashing, water tank fills, and waste tank dumps that the truck cannot legally do at the operating site. Three
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Short answer: most food trucks need 8 kW to 12 kW of generator capacity. A coffee or dessert van can get by on 5 kW. A full-cook-line truck with electric refrigeration, a fryer, a hood fan, and lighting needs 12 kW. Sizing the generator wrong is one of the most
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Short answer: a 40-pound propane tank running a typical food truck cook line burns through in 12 to 16 hours of active service. A 100-pound tank lasts 30 to 40 hours. The exact number depends on which equipment is hot, how much it is cycling, and the ambient temperature. That
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Short answer: in most cases, no. A standard food trailer pulled behind a regular pickup truck does not require a CDL. The federal cutoff is a Gross Combination Weight Rating of 26,001 pounds. Most food trailers and the trucks that haul them stay well under that line. That is the
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Sheridan sits in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains in north central Wyoming. The city is small (population around 18,500) but the surrounding region pulls in serious tourism dollars: Big Horn National Forest is fifteen minutes west, Yellowstone is a two and a half hour drive northwest, and the
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Jackson, Wyoming sits in the most economically unusual county in the United States. Teton County is the wealthiest county in America by per capita income and has been for years – the gap between Teton County and the rest of Wyoming on income measures is enormous. The county is also
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Rock Springs is the largest city in southwest Wyoming and the I-80 anchor between Salt Lake City and Cheyenne. The economy here runs on natural gas and trona mining (Sweetwater County produces most of the world’s trona, a soda ash mineral used in glass and chemical manufacturing) along with a
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Home › Food Truck Regulations Laramie is a college town with a serious food truck market. The University of Wyoming dominates the city’s economy and population – about 12,000 students, 2,500 faculty and staff, and a Cowboys football program that brings 25,000 plus visitors to War Memorial Stadium six Saturdays a fall. The city’s permanent
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