How Many Trucks Are In Canada?Īccording to the Canadian Trucking Alliance, the cross-border vaccine mandate would impact about 15% (or about 16,000) of the country's truckers. The number also seems implausible due to what we know about the trucking industry in Canada. The organizers may not be the most reliable source for this figure, however, as they have reason to inflate these numbers. The claim that 50,000 trucks are participating in this convoy appears to have originated with one of the protest's organizers. The CBC, for example, reported: "Hundreds of truckers set off from British Columbia to Ottawa on Sunday to protest a federal vaccine mandate despite the urging of the country's largest trucking federation to comply."Īdrian Ghobrial, a reporter for the Toronto news outlet City News, said that while thousands of people have come out to watch and support the truckers as they drive by, he was skeptical that the convoy consisted of more than 100 trucks: Many Canadian news outlets have used the word "hundreds" to quantify the number of trucks in this convoy.
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We reached out to the Canadian Trucking Alliance for more information and we will update this article if more information is made available. These variables make it difficult to estimate just how many trucks are participating. Furthermore, the "freedom convoy" has been a multiple-day event and some trucks may only be participating for a portion of the journey. Estimates are also difficult because this big rig convoy also includes a number of cars and other smaller vehicles. There's no official count for the number of trucks participating in this convoy. So just how many trucks participated in this freedom convoy? No Official Count We have seen no evidence to support the idea that the freedom convoy is anywhere near 460 miles long. If a 500 truck convoy stretched 7.5 km, a 50,000 truck convoy would stretch 750 km (about 460 miles). This Guinness World Records entry provides a data point that makes us skeptical of the 50,000 truck claim. With a length of 7.5 km, Tahya Misr Fund was able to organize a parade of 480 trucks, amid the harsh weather and heavy rain, breaking the Guinness World Records title for the largest parade of trucks, which was achieved 16 years ago in the Netherlands with a parade size of 416 trucks, thus the Tahya Misr Fund became the ne record holder. The largest parade of trucks consisted of 480 trucks and is achieved by Tahya Misr Fund (Egypt), in Cairo, Egypt, on 20 November 2020. That convoy involved 480 trucks and stretched 7.5 km (4.6 miles).
The largest truck convoy on record was set in November 2020 in Cairo, Egypt. Furthermore, the claim that this convoy involved 50,000 trucks appears to be a gross exaggeration that goes against all available evidence. As of this writing, the freedom convoy has not earned a place in the Guinness World Records book.
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