Your 10-Codes of the Day

10-16 = make pickup at (location)

10-26 = Disregard Last Information/Cancel Last Message

10-42 = Traffic Accident at ..........

10-4 = Ok, Message Received

10-19 = Nothing for you, return to base

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)

Assigned by the manufacturer, this number is unique to each vehicle and appears on the vehicle's registration and title.

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)

Pigtail

Cable used to transmit electrical power from the tractor to the trailer. So named because it is coiled like a pig's tail.

Dolly

See Converter Dolly.

Fifth Wheel

Coupling device attached to a tractor or dolly which supports the front of a semitrailer and locks it to the tractor or dolly. The fifth wheel's center is designed to accept a trailer's kingpin, around which the trailer and tract or or dolly pivot in turns.