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The Worlds Largest Convoy is Happening Now in Canada – Here’s Why You Haven’t Heard About It

Half Pint Jules
4 min readJan 27, 2022

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And why it won’t be the new Guinness record holder

This is the first, and quite possibly the only, political post you’ll find here on my page. But it’s an important one.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest convoy in the world occurred in 2020 as a group of truckers travelled through Cairo, Egypt.

They had 480 trucks forming a 7.5km line.

If 480 semi’s = a 7.5km line

How long is a line of 50,000 of them?

Cause that’s how many, along with many passenger vehicles, are currently travelling from Southern Ontario to Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

A small number of truckers collected in British Columbia to protest the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers that entered into force on January 15, 2022.

Though a reported 90% of the Canadian Trucking Alliance are vaccinated, this protest is to hold strong against the mandate.

They started making their way through the country where, to no surprise, fellow Canadians…

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Half Pint Jules
Half Pint Jules

Written by Half Pint Jules

Serial small businesser, total geek for industry talk, strung out most of the time but really, just a SAHWM with a need to talk about it.

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