Just an average review. I downloaded this based on a recommendation from a friend. I live in College Station, TX. Truckster has no service here. The app says there is service in Houston so I tried looking there. No trucks populated. I know there are many food trucks in Houston so there is a problem with the search function for that city. Hopefully they will add service in College Station since it is home to Texas A&M University and fix there Houston search function.

I didn’t really want an app to order at the food truck, but it’s COVID times, I get it, every little bit of limiting contact helps, so I downloaded it. Did not want to set up an account, but luckily this app offers Sign in with Apple. Great! Tap it and go. Getting ready to check out with my order when this app throws up a pop-up saying they noticed I’m using Sign In with Apple, and how sometimes those forwarded emails don’t go through (eye roll), and demanding I hand over my actual email address. Instead of offering an, “I’m an adult, I’ll take my chances” button, they just force you to give an email or, I guess, you can back out and just not eat. It’s winter here, my family is hungry, so I gave them my email. Felt totally scammed. Can’t wait to see who they’re going to sell it to!

Unfortunately useless for Portland, because it’s missing over a dozen permanent food cart venues, including dozens and dozens of trucks. Some of these carts have been available for years, at the same locations. I can find more food carts and more locations using Apple’s Map app, than I can using Truckster, which is designed specifically for the carts. The application itself is decent. It’s clunky to turn the “detail ribbon“ off and on, but once you get used to it, it’s easy enough to move around the map and spot marked locations. I would be willing to give it a try for another city. But for now, I think they should just remove Portland, Oregon entirely. The developer response to a different review suggested that it had something to do with the cold weather, or “lack of events“, but that seems unlikely — as mentioned above, these carts are easily found in other apps, and Internet searches, and have been located at the same address for years.

I LOVE this app! I’ve tried out a few others for finding food trucks in Austin, but they were very clunky and not user friendly at all. Truckster is sleek, easy to use, and makes it much much easier for me to find food trucks all over Austin.