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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-27 = I am moving to Channel ......
10-28 = Identify your station
10-10 = Transmission Completed, Standing By
10-67 = All units comply
10-7 = Out of Service, Leaving Air
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Kingpin (trailer)
Anchor pin at the center of a semitrailer's upper coupler which is captured by the locking jaws of a tractor's fifth wheel to attach the tractor to the semitrailer.
Overdrive
Gearing in which less than one revolution of a transmission's input shaft causes one turn of the output shaft. The purpose of overdrive is to reduce engine rpm in high gear for better fuel economy. Example: A transmission with an overdrive top gear has a ratio of 0.70 to one. Turning the input shaft 0.7 revolutions causes 1.0 revolution of the output shaft.
Piston Displacement
See Displacement.
Speedability
Top speed a vehicle can attain as determined by engine power, engine governed speed, gross weight, driveline efficiency, air resistance, grade and load.
Spoke Wheel
See Cast Spoke Wheel.