Companies with Truck Driving Jobs in Yacolt, New York for Company Driver:
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Trucking Companies in Yacolt, New York
Your 10-Codes of the Day
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10-20 = My Location is ......... or What's your Location?
10-92 = Your transmitter is out of adjustment
10-38 = Ambulance needed at .........
10-13 = Advise weather and road conditions
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Gear Ratio
Number, usually expressed as a decimal fraction, representing how many turns of the input shaft cause exactly one revolution of the output shaft. Applies to transmissions, power takeoffs, power dividers and rear axles. Example: If 2.5 revolutions of an input shaft cause one revolution of the output shaft, the gear ratio is 2.5:1.
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.
Cowboy
Truck driver who constantly changes lanes at high speeds
Bear Bait
Leader in a group of trucks
Horsepower (hp)
Measure of power (the amount of work that can be done over a given amount of time). One horsepower is defined as 33,000 foot-pounds of work in one minute. Example: Lifting 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute, or lifting 3300 pounds ten feet in one minute.