Your 10-Codes of the Day

10-25 = Can you Contact .......

10-3 = Stop Transmitting

10-17 = Urgent Business

10-13 = Advise weather and road conditions

10-91 = Talk closer to the Mike

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

Bear Meat

Speeding truck without a radar detector

Container (Shipping Container)

Standard-sized rectangular box used to transport freight by ship, rail and highway. International shipping containers are 20 or 40 feet long, conform to International Standards Organization (ISO) standards and are designed to fit in ships' holds. Containers are transported on public roads atop a container chassis towed by a tractor. Domestic containers, up to 53 feet long and of lighter construction, are designed for rail and highway use only.

Lowboy

Open flat-bed trailer with a deck height very low to the ground, used to haul construction equipment or bulky or heavy loads.

Covered wagon

Gravel trailer covered with a tarp

IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems)

Blanket term for a wide array of technologies, including electronic sensors, computer hardware and software and radio communications. The purpose of IVHS is to increase efficiency of use of existing highways, reducing travel time, fuel consumption, air pollution and accidents. There are five functional areas: Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) Advance Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) Advance Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) A more recently coined term, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), encompasses both IVHS and modes of transportation other than highway, such as rail. (see AVI, AVL, WIM)