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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-22 = Report in Person too (person)
10-43 = Traffic tied up at .........
10-60 = What is next message number?
10-200 = Police needed at ..........
10-11 = Talking too Rapidly
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
COFC (Container On Flat Car)
Method of moving shipping containers which involves transporting them on railroad flat cars.
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.
Dragon fly
A truck with no power
Curb Weight
See Chassis Weight.
Grade
Steepness of a grade, expressed as a percentage. Example: A vehicle climbing a 5% grade rises 5 feet for every 100 feet of forward travel.