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Trucking Companies in Chantilly, Virginia
Your 10-Codes of the Day
10-84 = My telephone number is .........
10-50 = Break Channel
10-5 = Relay Message
10-20 = My Location is ......... or What's your Location?
10-91 = Talk closer to the Mike
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
GCW (Gross Combination Weight)
Total weight of a loaded combination vehicle, such as a tractor-semitrailer or truck and full trailer(s).
Converter Dolly (Dolly)
Auxiliary axle assembly equipped with a fifth wheel (coupling device), towed by a semitrailer and supporting the front of, and towing, another semitrailer.
Contract Carrier
Company that transports freight under contract with one or a limited number of shippers.
Kingpin (axle)
Pin around which a steer axle's wheels pivot.
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.