The Great Food Truck Race: Truckin' Awesome
Season 18 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Great Food Truck Race Season 17.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 18 Progress Shield
Surviving Savannah
Aug 3, 2025 · 84 min
Host Tyler Florence kicks off an action-packed, eight-city ride, starting in Savannah with nine food trucks and racing up America's Southern Atlantic Coast. Baseball's funnest team
Crushing Charleston
Aug 10, 2025 · 84 min
Seven food trucks hit Charleston, S.C., and Chef Kardea Brown shows no mercy as she judges their attempts at Gullah Geechee dishes. Then, host Tyler Florence releases the teams to
Son of a Myrtle Beach
Aug 17, 2025 · 42 min
Host Tyler Florence unleashes the food trucks onto the boardwalk in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where one team blows past the competition and makes an enemy in the process. Teams that prev
Wilmington Revenge
Aug 17, 2025 · 42 min
It's payback time as host Tyler Florence brings the trucks to Wilmington, N.C., and two teams with a serious beef attempt to settle the score. Meanwhile, another team gets shut dow
Darlington Dash
Aug 24, 2025 · 42 min
Host Tyler Florence gives the food trucks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dash around Darlington Raceway in South Carolina and cook for NASCAR's Mamba Smith and Todd Gilliland.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Beach
Aug 31, 2025 · 42 min
Host Tyler Florence leads the trucks to Virginia Beach, Va., where one team's past catches up to them despite their best showing in the race yet. The strongest competitors conspire
Bad News in Newport News
Sep 7, 2025 · 42 min
The final three teams have no idea that host Tyler Florence is evaluating their food truck workflow in a secret surveillance challenge in Newport News, Va. He shuts the loser down
Norfolk Fork-Off
Sep 14, 2025 · 42 min
Host Tyler Florence kicks off the finale with the two winningest teams in Great Food Truck Race history competing in a sales frenzy, feeding the sailors of a Nimitz-class aircraft