Local Trucking Companies in Alabama:
So you’re looking for truck driver jobs in Camden, Alabama? Then see the trucking companies listed here. They’re all looking for company truckers and contract owner operator drivers. Look around at what their offering their employees, even if you’re a Owner Operator that has really only driven Flatbed, we’re sure that there are companies that you can definitely work for as a trucker. You also might want to consider applying with us. We’ll match your driving criteria to the needs of the carrier trucking companies that we work with that need you to drive for them today. Every company we work with needs your skills. Applying with us allows every company driver and independent driver to choose the type of jobs they want – getting in one of their vehicles or using your own when finding better owner operator trucking jobs.
Trucking Companies in Camden, Alabama
Your 10-Codes of the Day
10-75 = You are causing interference
10-27 = I am moving to Channel ......
10-10 = Transmission Completed, Standing By
10-70 = Fire at .......
10-37 = Wrecker needed at …...
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Down stroke
A hill going down
IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems)
Blanket term for a wide array of technologies, including electronic sensors, computer hardware and software and radio communications. The purpose of IVHS is to increase efficiency of use of existing highways, reducing travel time, fuel consumption, air pollution and accidents. There are five functional areas: Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) Advance Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) Advance Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) A more recently coined term, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), encompasses both IVHS and modes of transportation other than highway, such as rail. (see AVI, AVL, WIM)
HCFC
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon.
Retarder
Device used to assist brakes in slowing the vehicle. The most common type of retarder on over-the-road trucks manipulates the engine's valves to create engine drag. (This type is commonly referred to as "Jake Brake" because the predominant manufacturer is Jacobs Vehicle Equipment Co.) Other types of retarders include exhaust retarders, transmission-mounted hydraulic retarders and axle-mounted electromagnetic retarders.
Converter Dolly (Dolly)
Auxiliary axle assembly equipped with a fifth wheel (coupling device), towed by a semitrailer and supporting the front of, and towing, another semitrailer.