Food trucks
in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts's truck scene is anchored by Boston and Cambridge, with the smaller Worcester and Springfield scenes filling in. Boston's truck culture is shaped by the city's universities — lunch trucks crowd around MIT, BU, and Northeastern on weekdays, and food-truck festivals draw serious crowds in summer. The state's seafood tradition shows up in lobster roll and clam shack operators, with the Connecticut and Maine lobster roll style debates playing out in real time on Cambridge sidewalks. Permitting is rigorous and expensive, which has filtered the operators down to a serious tier that knows what it's doing.