Convoy of Freedom against Covid restrictions breaks world record

Truck drivers in Canada are protesting vaccine mandates on their
industry with a massive convoy that may break a world records. 
"It’s 70 km long," Benjamin Dichter, spokesman for the Freedom
Convoy 2022, told the Toronto Sun. "I have seen footage from an
airplane. It’s impressive." (https://fxn.ws/3s1WckT)
The Freedom Convoy left from Vancouver for Ottawa on Sunday
to protest the federal government’s vaccine mandates for cross-border
truckers, which took effect on Jan. 15. The Canadian Trucking
Alliance estimates that roughly 15% of truckers in the country are
not fully vaccinated, or about 16,000 truck drivers. 
Guinness World Records show that the longest convoy recorded took
place in Egypt in 2020, coming in at nearly 5 miles long. 
"The largest parade of trucks consisted of 480 trucks and is achieved
by Tahya Misr Fund (Egypt), in Cairo, Egypt, on 20 November 2020,"
Guinness states on its website. "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."
The truckers’ convoy could be 10 times larger than the record if it
stays intact on the trip to the Canadian capital. Estimates say 50000
trucks could be participating, the Toronto Sun reported. 
The convoy plans to reach Ottawa by Saturday for a protest. 
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said participants of the
protest are a "small fringe minority who are on the way to Ottawa
who are holding unacceptable views."
"What we are hearing from some people associated with this convoy
is completely unacceptable," he continued.