{"id":120585,"date":"2026-01-13T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120585\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:03:07","slug":"planters-nutmobile-makes-stop-in-lubbock-heads-to-texas-tech-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120585\/","title":{"rendered":"Planters Nutmobile makes stop in Lubbock, heads to Texas Tech on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Planters Nutmobile pulled into the KCBD parking lot Monday afternoon before continuing on its cross-country tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since 1935, the large peanut on wheels has been traveling the country promoting Mr. Peanut and the iconic brand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Planters Nutmobile makes stop in Lubbock, heads to Texas Tech on Wednesday\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/47UEONE65JDIBCKXBMGRJZQMYY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Planters Nutmobile makes stop in Lubbock, heads to Texas Tech on Wednesday(KCBD, Brandon Soliz)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Behind the wheel of the 26-foot-long nutshell are \u201cPeanutters,\u201d who spend a year as ambassadors for Planters with plenty of product to hand out. They are inviting others to apply online to be part of the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ambassadors said it\u2019s a joy to see the reaction that the head-turning 13,000-pound vehicle brings to those who see it pass by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cToday in the modern nutmobile we\u2019re in class 12 so we\u2019ve been doing this a little more than a decade and it\u2019s been awesome to travel around the country and make new memories everywhere we go,\u201d one ambassador said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Planters Nutmobile makes stop in Lubbock, heads to Texas Tech on Wednesday\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/M5HLHYEJ4FGKJHEBQ5H4E7GGGY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>Planters Nutmobile makes stop in Lubbock, heads to Texas Tech on Wednesday(KCBD, Brandon Soliz)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe get a lot of smiles, waves, honks, everyone is really excited to see it because it\u2019s not something you see every day so it\u2019s been fun,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Nutmobile is headed to Amarillo Tuesday but will return to Lubbock for a visit to Texas Tech University from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. The ambassadors invite people to come say \u201cshell-o.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Planters Nutmobile pulled into the KCBD parking lot Monday afternoon before continuing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[66,168,170,169,223,52527,52526,52528,52524,52525,873],"class_list":{"0":"post-120585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-local","9":"tag-lubbock","10":"tag-lubbock-headlines","11":"tag-lubbock-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nutmobile","14":"tag-peanuts","15":"tag-peanutters","16":"tag-planters","17":"tag-planters-peanuts","18":"tag-texas-tech-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}