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The Cupcake Truck V1

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DRAFT-Chapter 2 -The TRUCK Where am I going to get a food truck? Its early summer of 2010 and the food truck era has not made its way to St. Louis. So, finding a food truck is not easy and I don’t even know what I need. There are NO regulations, no one to go to ask questions and not even sure this is legal here.   We are starting something new. I begin my search on eBay for a food truck of any kind which would work for what we needed it to do, which is transport our fresh baked cupcakes from west county to downtown. The only thing I think I need is a window to sell from and maybe an AC unit to keep the cupcakes cool.   After a week of searching on the keyword “Food Truck,” I decided to change my search to “Sprinter” which is the type of truck I thought I wanted. I thought worst-case scenario my brother and I would customize a plain Dodge Sprinter Van into a “cupcake truck”. What finally came up was a truck being listed as a 2004 Freightliner Sprinter. It was not listed as a f