Is Mattapoisett joining the food truck revolution?  Maybe not just yet, but with Oxford Creamery’s new mobile catering trailer, it may be one step closer!

“We would like to operate a small catering business within our business and also sell hotdogs and lobster rolls,” said Ken Ackerman, who owns Oxford Creamery with his wife Liz.

The Ackermans plan to operate the trailer on their property on Mondays and Tuesdays when the business is closed as well as during busy times to cut down on bottlenecks.

“We already have traffic flow to the property that we’re not able to take care of,” said Ackerman. “People sit and wait in the parking lot, and it becomes a deadlock. We want to create something that flows.”

So customers who want a simple hotdog or lobster roll will soon be able to skirt the often long lines at the Creamery.

The Ackermans also want to use the trailer to cater parties and functions.

“We don’t deliver food. We’re not looking to crowd anyone out,” said Ackerman at a Selectman’s meeting on Wednesday, August 8.

Ackerman said fundraisers and events like the Taste of the Town, would be ideal for the trailer, but Selectmen Chair Jordan Collyer asked, “How do you determine what’s going to be encroaching on somebody else’s business?”

Ackerman said, “I would assume if you can see that business, then you’re too close.”

Selectmen voted to amend Oxford Creamery’s common victualler license to include the food trailer.

Ackerman said he hopes to have the trailer operating before the end of the summer season and will also use it in Dartmouth, where the couple lives, during the winter.