{"id":140,"date":"2010-03-04T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:48:52","slug":"traffic-barrels-and-all-other-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/traffic-barrels-and-all-other-lingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Barrels, and all other lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lpdirector.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[140]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-141\" title=\"traffic barrels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/lpdirector-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"traffic barrels, traffic barrel, traffic drum, traffic drums, construction drums\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When I first learned about the traffic safety industry, I couldn&#8217;t figure out what those orange barrels on the side of the highway were called.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 <a title=\"traffic barrels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/c\/6\/traffic-drums-barrels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic barrels<\/a> may be the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of these orange barrels now, but there are other names.<\/p>\n<p>Some people call them orange drums, construction drums, construction barrels, traffic drums, superdome drums, and more.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to identify which is the correct term, but a search on Google for traffic drum gives almost two million results, which all seem to be on target.\u00a0 Then again, a search for traffic drum brings up over eight million results, so who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first learned about the traffic safety industry, I couldn&#8217;t figure out what those orange barrels on the side of the highway were called.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Traffic barrels may be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,96,94,56,98,97],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-safety","tag-construction-barrel","tag-construction-barrels","tag-traffic-barrel","tag-traffic-barrels","tag-traffic-drum","tag-traffic-drums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}