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Trucking Companies in Athens, Illinois
Your 10-Codes of the Day
10-99 = Mission completed, all units secure
10-2 = Receiving Well
10-94 = Please give me a long count
10-70 = Fire at .......
10-35 = Confidential Information
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
JIT (Just-In-Time)
Manufacturing system which depends on frequent, small deliveries of parts and supplies to keep on-site inventory to a minimum.
Container Chassis
Single-purpose semitrailer designed to carry a shipping container.
CNG
Compressed natural gas.
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.
Comic book
Truck driver's log book