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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-70 = Fire at .......
10-18 = Anything for us?
10-41 = Please tune to channel ........
10-8 = In Service, subject to call
10-62 = Unable to copy, use phone
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Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
GCW (Gross Combination Weight)
Total weight of a loaded combination vehicle, such as a tractor-semitrailer or truck and full trailer(s).
Tractor
Truck designed primarily to pull a semitrailer by means of a fifth wheel mounted over the rear axle(s). Sometimes called a truck tractor or highway tractor to differentiate from it from a farm tractor.
EV (Electric Vehicle)
Vehicle powered by electric motor(s) rather than by an internal combustion engine. Most common source of electricity is chemical storage batteries.
Jackknife
To place the trailer at a very sharp angle to the tractor.
HCFC
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon.