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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-39 = Your message delivered
10-22 = Report in Person too (person)
10-7 = Out of Service, Leaving Air
10-73 = Speed Trap at ............
10-95 = Transmit dead carrier for 5 seconds
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Cash register
Toll booth
Dolly
See Converter Dolly.
Pintle Hook
Coupling device used in double trailer, triple trailer and truck-trailer combinations. It has a curved, fixed towing horn and an upper latch that opens to accept the drawbar eye of a trailer or dolly.
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.
CNG
Compressed natural gas.