Horns blasting.  Engines roaring.  Diesel wafting.  Tires rumbling.  Trucks gleaming.  Earth shaking.  Kids laughing.  Tune your five senses in to the fifth annual Labor Day Truck Parade on Monday, September 7.  This unique, fun-for-the-whole-family event starts with a convoy of about 50 trucks rumbling through the streets of downtown Zeeland and Holland and culminates at the Holland Civic Center parking lot where spectators can get an up-close look at the trucks and enjoy free ice cream, hot dogs and giveaways.

While entertaining and involving our community, this event celebrates area employers and employees who make the Lakeshore area a great place to live and work.  Labor Day is the perfect time to honor our local workforce.  Parade participant trucks range from local corporate giants to smaller, family-owned businesses that have been a part of the community for decades.  These trucks are used to distribute locally-made products to neighboring towns, across the nation and around the world.  The trucks symbolize the pride of our area workforce, and the community that supports and makes these businesses successful. 

The parade will depart from Herman Miller in Zeeland at approximately 9 a.m.  Spectators are invited to watch the parade along Main Street in Zeeland starting at 9:15 a.m. and along Eighth Street through downtown Holland at 9:30 a.m.  The trucks will end up in the Holland Civic Center parking lot, and post-parade festivities will wrap up by noon.  The event is sponsored by West Michigan Works and the cities of Holland and Zeeland.

If you would like to help us promote the event, you can download our poster to tack up in your business or workplace. If your Holland/Zeeland area company would like to participate in the truck parade, please contact West Michigan Works at 616.786.4461.