[1] In operation since 1977, it is parked outside the Spring Garden Road branch of the Halifax Public Libraries each summer until 2024 when another food vendor won the spot with a higher bid.

[2][3] The edge of the old library is marked by a low concrete wall, and it is there that most customers sit and eat their fries.

The truck sells hand-cut French fries made from Prince Edward Island potatoes,.

[5] Due to the economic downturn, buyers for the business were unable to obtain financing, and the truck was operated by the Trues for another summer.

[3] Food critic Calvin Trillin, who summers in Nova Scotia, praised the truck in the New Yorker writing that "some summers, I would catch myself concocting an unlikely errand in Halifax, an hour and three-quarters from where I live, just to get within striking distance of Bud the Spud.