Trans-Supply Blog – Road & Airport Safety At It's Best
All things safety in the transportation world. From air to the pavement transportation requires safety and safety provisions.
There can be confusion over what these are called, but the proper term is sand barrels, more generally they can be called traffic barrels. Those yellow barrels you to ensure that if your car goes off course it doesn’t end up in what the barrels are in front of. A lot of times they are […]
There are different brands of safety cones? Yes, more than one manufacturer of safety cones exist. In fact, there are many. Most companies that make traffic cones make other products as well (traffic barricades, delineator posts, etc). So what’s the difference between one brand and the next? Well, the answer is there isn’t too much […]
When I first learned about the traffic safety industry, I couldn’t figure out what those orange barrels on the side of the highway were called. Now, I am still confused about what they are called, but this post is to show you the common names given to these orange barrels. Traffic barrels may be the […]
There are many different types of traffic barricades. In general, I like to split up the word barricade into a couple different categories. There are barrier barricades, pedestrian barricades, portable / collapsible barricades, and type 1,2, and 3 barricades. Barrier barricades are usually used as medians between highways. Pedestrian barricades are more for crowd control. […]
Traffic message boards are similar to advisory arrows, except advisory arrows are usually smaller, have less electronics, and usually cost less. Some traffic message boards have laptops that come with them to help operate them. Advisory arrows have a photocell dimmer that allows motorists to be able to see the arrow 24 hours a day. […]
Last week I posted a type III traffic barricade piece about different options that make a good type 3 barricade. I left off on the type of paint that you should look for (weather resistant baked enamel) if you want your barricade to be used for awhile. Most barricades, especially type III, are made to […]
