{"id":256,"date":"2011-04-18T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/captainelectric.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:31:37","slug":"hey-buddy-stay-in-your-own-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/hey-buddy-stay-in-your-own-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Buddy &#8211; Stay In Your Own Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few weeks ago, one of our Service Trucks was clipped by a transport truck that wandered into our driver\u2019s lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our driver was in his truck in the right lane, behind a slow moving cement truck and a number of other vehicles. The Cement Truck had just pulled onto the westbound 401 atBrock StreetinWhitby. Our Driver and others in front of him were slowed to about 60 km\/hr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A transport truck that was travelling at least 40 km\/hr faster passed by on the left, and ripped (exploded) the entire driver\u2019s side mirror off of our truck, scratching paint and damaging the door as well. The 2 right rear wheels of the transport\u2019s trailer were fully in the right lane where our driver was. So our advice to all &#8211; beware of wandering Tractor Trailers. This could happen to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what we know:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Transport Trucks are the largest vehicles on the road.<\/li><li>They wander into other lanes more often than you might realize.<\/li><li>We should all keep our distance from them, and be aware that this type of accident happens more often than you might think.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, one of our Service Trucks was clipped by a transport truck that wandered into our driver\u2019s lane. Our driver was in his truck in the right lane, behind a slow moving cement truck and a number of other vehicles. The Cement Truck had just pulled onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[24,26,33,35,38,52,81,98,105,107],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-culture","tag-accidents","tag-ajax","tag-benefits","tag-captain-electric","tag-collisions","tag-electrical-contractor","tag-maintenance","tag-service","tag-transport-trucks","tag-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}