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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-1 = Receiving Poorly
10-32 = I will give you a radio check
10-5 = Relay Message
10-50 = Break Channel
10-38 = Ambulance needed at .........
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
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.
Sleeper
Sleeping compartment mounted behind a truck cab, sometimes attached to the cab or even designed to be an integral part of it.
Chicken coop
Truck weight station
Compensated Intracorporate Hauling
Freight transportation service provided by one company for a sister company.
Twins (Twin Trailers)
See Doubles.