Trucking Jobs in Bruceton, Tennessee

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Truck Driving Jobs in Bruceton, Tennessee

Your 10-Codes of the Day

10-45 = All units within range please report

10-28 = Identify your station

10-84 = My telephone number is .........

10-35 = Confidential Information

10-65 = Awaiting your next message or assignment

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

Breaker

CB'er who asks to use a channel

Chicken lights

Extra lights on a truck

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)

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.

Boardwalk

A bumpy road

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