{"id":696,"date":"2013-04-04T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-05-04T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T06:00:49","slug":"when-the-indicator-does-not-flash-the-vehicle-may-be-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/696","title":{"rendered":"When the indicator does not flash, the vehicle may be turning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spoke to a man driving a nice big white 15-seater bus and trailer for Ilios travel – http:\/\/www.ilios.co.za\/<\/a> this morning in the traffic, to let him know that the lights on his trailer don’t work.\u00a0 That was cool.\u00a0 I told him.\u00a0 Problem averted.\u00a0 Road safety rulz ok.<\/p>\n

What happened next is the reason you should avoid travelling with this business: he drove on, without checking the vehicle in any way.\u00a0 4km down the road the lights were still not working on the trailer – no brake lights, no left signal, no right signal.\u00a0 Either the trailer was not roadworthy to begin with, and he knew it, or Ilios Travel have employed a man to drive who does not think that the state of the vehicle he is driving his is problem.<\/p>\n

Update: Fast forward from April 2013 to May 2015: I saw an Ilios Toyota Quantum today towing a trailer DP28KHGP or similar displaying only one rear light.\u00a0 Clearly checking and changing light bulbs is still not a priority.\u00a0 Rear lights?\u00a0 Who needs them?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spoke to a man driving a nice big white 15-seater bus and trailer for Ilios travel – http:\/\/www.ilios.co.za\/ this morning in the traffic, to let him know that the lights on his trailer don’t work.\u00a0 That was cool.\u00a0 I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,17,190,10],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-ilios","tag-rants","tag-stuff","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}