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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-9 = Repeat Message
10-2 = Receiving Well
10-10 = Transmission Completed, Standing By
10-38 = Ambulance needed at .........
10-100 = Need to go to Bathroom
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Cube (Cubic Capacity)
Interior volume of a truck body, semitrailer or trailer, measured in cubic feet.
Independent Trucker
See Owner Operator.
Lowboy
Open flat-bed trailer with a deck height very low to the ground, used to haul construction equipment or bulky or heavy loads.
Dead-Heading
Operating a truck without cargo.
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.