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a single beast made of many trucks, moving slow so everyone arrives alive
means A group of vehicles, ships, or people traveling together for safety or efficiency, often under escort.
from From Old French 'convoier,' to accompany or escort, which traces back to Latin 'conviare' — 'con-' (together) plus 'via' (way or road). So at its root, a convoy is simply those who go down the road together. The same Latin 'con-' + 'via' also gives us 'convey,' its quieter twin: one carries goods, the other escorts them.
- origin
- From Latin 'conviare' — to travel the road together
- safety in numbers
- WWII Atlantic convoys cut U-boat losses dramatically
- trucker law
- 1975 hit song sparked real CB-radio protest convoys
- slowest wins
- Convoy speed limited by its weakest vehicle
- animal version
- Spiny lobsters migrate in single-file convoys underwater
convoy pw-477 — german wwii supply convoy sunk by allied forces in the battle of the barents sea, december 1942
gulf of tonkin incident — uss maddox destroyer escort convoy in vietnam, august 1964, triggered escalation
atlantic convoys — allied merchant shipping convoys escorted across atlantic in wwii, protecting 180+ million tons of supplies