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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-10 = Transmission Completed, Standing By
10-23 = Stand by
10-6 = Busy, Stand By
10-34 = Trouble at this station, help is needed
10-12 = Visitors Present
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Freight shaker
A Freightliner truck
Displacement (Piston Displacement)
Sum of the volumes swept by an engine's pistons as they travel up and down in their cylinders. Based upon bore (diameter of cylinder) and stroke (distance traveled by piston). Expressed in liters or cubic inches.
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.
LTL Carrier
Trucking company which consolidates less-than-truckload cargo for multiple destinations on one vehicle. (see TL Carrier)
COE
See Cabover.