Aber’s Towing & Crane Service Hosting 4th Annual Car Show and Touch-a-Truck
ASHLAND — Aber’s Towing & Crane Service is preparing to welcome families, car enthusiasts and first responders for its 4th Annual Car Show and Touch-a-Truck on Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event will be held at Aber’s Towing & Crane Service, 1180 Commerce Parkway in Ashland.
Cameron with Aber’s said the annual event has grown into a day for all ages, offering families a chance to see trucks, first responder vehicles and emergency equipment up close.
“I can’t believe it, but it’s already our fourth annual Touch-a-Truck car show,” Cameron said. “It’s going to be a ton of stuff for all ages to do.”
This year’s event will include a car show, food trucks, face painting, bounce houses, an inflatable obstacle course and a separate bounce house area for smaller children. Looney Lemon is also expected to be on site.
Car show participants can enter for a $10 entry fee, while spectator admission is free. Monetary donations will be accepted.
All proceeds from the event will benefit the United Way of Ashland County, and Cameron said Aber’s plans to match donations up to a certain amount.
“We’re just going to try to give back to our community and have a great day,” Cameron said.
One of the biggest attractions will once again be a LifeFlight helicopter landing, which Cameron said is always a major highlight for children and families.
“Those kids, their eyes are really big when that helicopter lands,” he said. “They get to do all this stuff, blow the horns, that’s really what it’s all about.”
First responders will also be part of the event. Cameron said Aber’s is working directly with the Ashland Fire Department to put together an extrication demonstration, showing what firefighters and emergency crews may do at the scene of a crash.
“They’re going to show what would happen on an accident scene,” Cameron said. “It’s going to be a pretty cool thing just to show people what it would be like in a real-life scenario and see what kind of training these guys have to go through to be able to do their jobs and do them safely.”
The event will also give visitors a behind-the-scenes look at towing, recovery and crane work, something Cameron said many people do not often get to see up close.
“We’re just going to kind of show people the behind the scenes that they’ve never really seen,” he said. “If you’re not around something like this, it shows how intricate it can really be.”
A dunk tank will also return this year as another fundraiser. Cameron said he plans to get in the dunk tank himself and hopes to get the company’s owner involved as well.
“We’re going to raise money that way, too,” he said. “It’s going to be awesome.”
For Cameron and the Aber’s team, the event is about more than trucks and cars. It is about keeping support local and saying thank you to the community that helped the company grow.
“We’re a small company in a small town, and we started from nothing pretty much,” Cameron said. “For the people that know our story, they know how far we’ve come as a company. We love to give back because we wouldn’t have anything that we have now without the support of our community.”
He added that events like this help put things into perspective.
“What better way than to give back to that same community, keep the money here, keep it local, and just show everybody that we care,” Cameron said. “That’s really what it’s all about.”
