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A Truck Convoy With a Message Everyone Can Get Behind
Daily Beast
Thirteen-year-old Dalton Frank, who loved trucks, got a special farewell after he took his own life this month following a bullying incident.
Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Updated Feb. 22, 2022 8:27PM ET / Published Feb. 22, 2022 8:26PM ET
Unless you saw the coffin on the flatbed trailer in the lead, you might have thought the convoy of more than 200 trucks in central Missouri on Monday was a political statement of some kind.
But the long procession on Highway 54 from Eugene to Jefferson City was in honor of a 13-year-old named Dalton Frank who loved trucks and often told his uncle that he wanted to be part of a convoy someday.
The uncle, 33-year-old Carey Frank, led the way in his big, gleaming Peterbilt with the boy’s father beside him. The only message Carey and his fellow truckers were seeking to convey concerned bullying, which is what they say drove the eighth grader to take his own life on Feb. 14.
“This is just about a 13-year-old boy who was bullied,” Carey told The Daily Beast “It has nothing to do with politics at all.”
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Thirteen-year-old Dalton Frank, who loved trucks, got a special farewell after he took his own life this month following a bullying incident.
Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Updated Feb. 22, 2022 8:27PM ET / Published Feb. 22, 2022 8:26PM ET
Unless you saw the coffin on the flatbed trailer in the lead, you might have thought the convoy of more than 200 trucks in central Missouri on Monday was a political statement of some kind.
But the long procession on Highway 54 from Eugene to Jefferson City was in honor of a 13-year-old named Dalton Frank who loved trucks and often told his uncle that he wanted to be part of a convoy someday.
The uncle, 33-year-old Carey Frank, led the way in his big, gleaming Peterbilt with the boy’s father beside him. The only message Carey and his fellow truckers were seeking to convey concerned bullying, which is what they say drove the eighth grader to take his own life on Feb. 14.
“This is just about a 13-year-old boy who was bullied,” Carey told The Daily Beast “It has nothing to do with politics at all.”
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