The Norway manufacturer in late October supplied a garbage truck for a Trump campaign rally in Green Bay — the event came just after President Joe Biden made a comment that seemed to disparage Trump supporters as “garbage” — that become a surprise star when Trump rode shotgun at Austin Straubel airport and took questions from media while still sitting in the cab.

“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump asked the group. “This is in honor of Kamala (Harris) and Joe Biden.”

Driving Trump that day was Andrew Brisson, vice president of Loadmaster. He had brought the truck down at the request of the Trump campaign and Dan Roddan of Waste Management in Green Bay.

But he thought it would be a prop, parked somewhere for the rally. He wasn’t even sure he would meet the former president, much less take Trump for a spin in the decorated rig at the airport, an experience Roddan later described as “surreal.”

ANDREW BRISSON, vice president of Loadmaster in Norway, takes a selfie with former president Donald Trump after bringing one of the company’s garbage trucks to Green Bay for a campaign appearance by the then-Republican presidential nominee in late October. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Brisson)

Still, considering “how much of a buzz it made,” Brisson wasn’t completely surprised to get a call last month from representatives of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, asking if the truck could be pressed into service again for the now president-elect.

Brisson will be behind the wheel again Monday, among the nearly 7,500 people from 23 states participating in the Presidential Inaugural Parade that takes place after Trump is sworn in.

It wasn’t completely easy to arrange, Brisson said. That truck — a Legacy S with a 20-yard body, which is about medium-sized for the industry — had been sent to a dealership in Indianapolis, which luckily hadn’t sold it yet. He thinks the dealer might have held onto it due to the attention it got in October.

Another two Loadmaster trucks are being brought in for Monday’s events as well, to be stationed outside the Liberty Inaugural Ball, one of three official balls that night. Those are coming from Detroit and Missouri, Brisson said.

The three trucks have already arrived in Washington, but Brisson won’t fly out until Friday. He’ll spend the weekend with parade workers, getting the trucks decorated and being trained on what he needs to do.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a Loadmaster garbage truck in Green Bay, Wis., during the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign. The same truck will be in Monday's presidential inaugural parade in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

He’s been kept busy with interviews, Brisson said, since CNN first caught wind Monday that the truck would make an encore appearance in the parade. He’s since talked with Fox News, Green Bay and local media, even gotten a call from the Detroit News.

Brisson hopes the attention might spur interest in the company, which is the nation’s fifth-largest manufacturer of refuse equipment but can get a little overlooked. They’d like to increase production from about six to seven trucks a week to about 10 a week if they can find workers, he said.

As with the Green Bay appearance, Brisson doesn’t know if he’ll actually get to meet Trump, considering the president’s busy schedule that day. If he does, Brisson this time has a request — he’s hoping Trump will sign the dashboards on the trucks.

“He gave us one hundred dollar bills that he’d signed” in Green Bay, Brisson noted.