B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 142
Communication Breakdown
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
ATL taxi out instruction from Ramp 3 north taxi. Holding short of Foxtrot; Ground instructed to pass behind a Regional Jet (RJ) and continue to 26L on EC. As we started to taxi a ground truck pulled out in front of us causing us to stop to avoid contact. Having this in mind we then continued to taxi and I followed the RJ. My understanding was to taxi out and follow RJ but my First Officer said we were supposed to pass behind the RJ. Ground asked us to wait and once the RJ cleared he gave us instructions to continue to the runway for departure. There was a lot of ground communication and clutter during this time with multiple aircraft.
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B737 flight crew reported taking the wrong taxiway at ATL after a sudden stop to avoid a vehicle.