Your 10-Codes of the Day

10-94 = Please give me a long count

10-71 = proceed with transmission in sequence

10-24 = Completed last assignment

10-21 = Call on the telephone

10-100 = Need to go to Bathroom

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

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.

Comedian

Median strip

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)

Pull Trailer

Short, full trailer (supported by axles front and rear) with an extended tongue.

TOFC (Trailer On Flatcar)

Method of moving cargo which involves transporting semitrailers on railroad flat cars. (see Piggyback)