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All things safety in the transportation world. From air to the pavement transportation requires safety and safety provisions.

Powers of Solar Barricade Lights

When you look on the internet and in traffic safety catalogs, you may notice there are a couple different types of solar barricade lights.  There are type b solar barricade lights, and regular solar barricade lights. Regular solar barricade lights are not powered by as many LEDs as type b solar barricade lights.  Type b […]

Traffic Drums are Everywhere!

Summer means construction season, and construction season means miles and miles of traffic drums, delineator posts, traffic cones, traffic message boards, etc.  It is easy to get frustrated or annoyed by them, but it’s important to know they are there for a reason.  They are there for your safety. Traffic drums provide a barricade between […]

Traffic Drum Questions and Concerns PT II

This post is a continue-um to the post on Tuesday talking about different traffic drum questions one may stumble upon and want answered prior to buying the traffic drums.  ‘Grade’ is a term referring to the reflective tape option on traffic drums.  Engineer Grade is the most common, Hi Intensity Grade is the next most […]

Feet Type 3 Barricades

One may think that you would just buy a type 3 barricade and stand it up.  It isn’t as easy as that, because type 3 barricades have the option of coming with feet or not coming with feet.  Why would someone buy a type 3 barricade without feet? There may be a need to make […]

Colors of Solar Barricade Lights

There are only three different lens colors for solar barricade lights that I know of.  There is blue, red and yellow.  Yellow is by far the most common, probably accounts for 85% of the industry sales. Red solar barricade lights are most common in airport construction sites.  Not all red solar barricade lights are FAA […]

Traffic Message Board Branding

There are a few different brands of traffic message boards that I know of, but the differences between the brands is not too great.  When researching your traffic message board try to focus more on the options available and less on the brand. There are arrow boards and there are traffic message boards.  Traffic message […]