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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day

10-9 = Repeat Message

10-95 = Transmit dead carrier for 5 seconds

10-5 = Relay Message

10-43 = Traffic tied up at .........

10-65 = Awaiting your next message or assignment

 

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)

Total weight of a vehicle and everything aboard, including its load.

Straight Truck

See Truck.

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)

Blind Spot

Areas around a commercial vehicle that are not visible to the driver either through the windshield, side windows or mirrors.

Bear in the air

Air supported highway patrol