Your 10-Codes of the Day

10-94 = Please give me a long count

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

10-41 = Please tune to channel ........

10-3 = Stop Transmitting

10-39 = Your message delivered

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

Payload

Weight of the cargo being hauled.

Down stroke

A hill going down

Single-Source Leasing

Service in which companies can lease drivers and trucks from the same source, rather than having to procure them from different companies.

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)

Private Carrier

Business which operates trucks primarily for the purpose of transporting its own products and raw materials. The principle business activity of a private carrier is not transportation. (see For-Hire Carrier)