Kids learn the names for different types of construction equipment (dump truck, backhoe, steamroller, cement mixer), farm equipment (tractor, combine, hay baler), truck parts, and the names of their favorite monster trucks. Similar to dinosaur play, truck play is filled with big words that kids soak in as they learn more about trucks. The digging, constructing and building that happens during truck play taps into many areas of play and learning: constructive, sensory (especially if playing outside in sand or dirt and mud), imaginary role play, science, physics, vocabulary and more. While it’s obviously unsafe for kids to play with or around big moving wheels of any sort when they’re young and small, toy trucks and construction equipment offer a kid-size way to express that interest. Toy truck play is a terrific way for kids to role play the truck-related situations that look so important to them from their view out of the backseat window. “He had to take a handful of gravel from the parking lot to bring home to his sandbox,” said Berry, who recalled in his own childhood digging in his backyard with a fleet of toy trucks and construction equipment. Thomas Berry, archivist for the National Construction Equipment Museum in Bowling Green, Ohio, tells the story of one young boy who visited the museum and was so overjoyed at seeing the big equipment there that he couldn’t leave with taking a part of it with him. Trucks are big, their colors are bold, and they make awesome loud noises. Maybe the question isn’t why are kids so excited about trucks, but rather why aren’t we just as excited as they are? So much of what we adults no longer pay attention to in the background of everyday life is still new and exciting to kids. Big trucks in motion shout “Important Work In Progress,” and kids love seeing amazing work happening in the grown-up world. At the first sight of big wheels, many kids excitedly yell “Truck!” Why? Indeed, there’s a truck of some kind almost everywhere something important is being built, fixed, grown or moved on our highways, city streets and farmlands - and kids notice. Many young kids are fascinated by big trucks: dump trucks, garbage trucks, monster trucks, fire trucks, pickup trucks, semi-trucks, tractors, steamrollers and all types of construction equipment.
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