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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day

10-73 = Speed Trap at ............

10-30 = Does not conform to FCC Rules

10-92 = Your transmitter is out of adjustment

10-38 = Ambulance needed at .........

10-28 = Identify your station

 

Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day

Brake Horsepower (bhp)

Engine horsepower rating as determined by brake dynamometer testing. (see Horsepower)

Pintle Hook

Coupling device used in double trailer, triple trailer and truck-trailer combinations. It has a curved, fixed towing horn and an upper latch that opens to accept the drawbar eye of a trailer or dolly.

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)

Buttermilk

Any beer

Yard Tractor or Yard Goat

Special tractor used to move trailers around a terminal, warehouse, distribution center, etc.