Florida Truck Driving Jobs | FL Trucking Companies
Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-7 = Out of Service, Leaving Air
10-10 = Transmission Completed, Standing By
10-91 = Talk closer to the Mike
10-11 = Talking too Rapidly
10-20 = My Location is ......... or What's your Location?
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Big/tall rubber
24 inch tires
Logbook
Book carried by truck drivers in which they record their hours of service and duty status for each 24-hour period. Required in interstate commercial trucking by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Runaway Truck Ramp
Emergency area adjacent to a steep downgrade that a heavy truck can steer into after losing braking power. Usually two or three lanes wide and several hundred feet long, the ramp is a soft, gravel-filled pathway which absorbs the truck's forward momentum, bringing it to a safe stop. Depending on the surrounding terrain, the ramp may be level or run up or down hill.
CG (Center of Gravity)
Weight center or balance point of an object, such as a truck body. Calculated to help determine optimum placement of truck bodies on chassis.
Clean shot
No highway patrol around