A memorial convoy for a 14-year old drew nearly 200 operators and rigs after the local trucking community put the word out that the boy, Wyatt Raska of Coulter, Iowa, had always idolized truckers and aspired to the trucking profession himself.
Jeremy Jansen, the owner-operator who runs the cattle and reefer hauler Rockin' Bar J Transport, lives nearby and helped organize the event for the Raskas, a well-regarded local trucking family in the area.
"A long time friend was really good friends with the dad, and good friends with the family, so he called me because he knew I could put the word out," said Jansen, who has a sizable following on TikTok and in trucking generally.
Jansen's efforts, and later his words on the trucking family that came together to celebrate a life cut short, found plenty of traction. Eventually, the mega-popular Mutha Trucka YouTube channel ran a video featuring Jansen's words. Combined with his own TikTok about the tragedy, both have been viewed more than 40,500 times as of this writing.
