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WIENERMOBILE

A woman looks at the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the most famous of all product-shaped promotional vehicles, at the Santa Monica Pier parking lot on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as Wienerwhistles. There are seven wienermobiles in existence currently, with each assigned a part of the country. The hotdogger position of driving the wienermobile is an open position to U.S. citzens and the duration of the job lasts for one full year: from the first of June until the following first of June. Every March at Kraft and Oscar Mayer headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin there are final round interviews held for the hotdogger position. Each vehicle holds two hotdoggers, and twelve people are chosen from a final pool of 30 candidates brought to Oscar Mayer headquarters. The 30 candidates are screened across the country. Both current hotdoggers and Oscar Mayer recruiters visit college campuses across the country in search of the next round of hotdoggers. Only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible for applying to this hotdogger position. Currently there are about 500 hotdogger alumni who have served as hotdoggers and driven the wienermobile.

Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 06:11PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in , | Comments1 Comment

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Franktastic photos, Fabian! You and your readers can ketchup on some of our best adventures from the road on our blog www.hotdoggerblog.com! Also, you can add your photos of us to our official Flickr group at www.flickr.com/groups/892779@N25/
February 5, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWienermobile

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