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€œSo even if it was your day off, and you weren’t going to an event and maybe you wanted to go catch a movie, our only mode of transportation was the Wienermobile, so we would take the Wienermobile to the movie theater,” Kirk said. It was hard not to attract attention in the Wienermobile. I remember I was in Tulsa Oklahoma singing the Oscar Mayer song to the Good Morning Tulsa Show.”ĭuring Kirk’s one-year contract, he was almost always on the road. “We would then write the press releases for those media outlets and then we would do the interviews with the media. €œOur job was to reach out to the news stations, radio stations, the local papers, and anyone we could possible get a hold of and try to promote these events that we were doing in the area,” Kirk said. Using local media, they would promote their visit. When they rolled into town, they would set up events for the mobile. Kirk and his partner were responsible for managing media relations all along their route. Eventually he got to take the mobile out on the road with one of the instructors. He was trained to drive the Wienermobile by starting in a parking lot with cones. Kirk’s first two weeks on the job were in Madison, Wisconsin. “I didn’t know about it until I saw the poster.” €œIt was really dumb luck that I just kind of came across the opportunity,” Kirk said. Kirk was then interviewed on campus, and later flew out to Madison, Wisconsin for the final interview. He sent in his information and attended an informational meeting. Kirk first saw the job when passing a poster at Mizzou. The company selects students out of college, like Kirk, to operate the mobile. Oscar Mayer uses the vehicle to promote sales for its products. Since its inception in the late 1930s, the Wienermobile has become an American icon. Standing at 27 feet long, the Wienermobile is a giant hot dog on wheels. After he completed college at the University of Missouri, he toured all across America for a year in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Zach Kirk, a student teacher in Marci Boland’s business classes, came to CHS with some unusual experience. Parker Schultz | MaZach Kirk poses with the Wienermobile on one of his many cross-country adventures working for Oscar Mayer.