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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day

10-11 = Talking too Rapidly

10-20 = My Location is ......... or What's your Location?

10-5 = Relay Message

10-6 = Busy, Stand By

10-91 = Talk closer to the Mike

 

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

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.

Tare Weight

See Chassis Weight.

Axle

Structural component to which wheels, brakes and suspension are attached. Drive axles are those with powered wheels. Front axle is usually called the steer axle. Pusher axles are unpowered and go ahead of drive axles. Rear axles may be drive, tag or pusher types. Tag axles are unpowered and go behind drive axles.

Evil Kenivel

Motorcycle cop

Piggyback

Semitrailer built with reinforcements to withstand transport by a railroad flatcar. (see TOFC)