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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-9 = Repeat Message
10-95 = Transmit dead carrier for 5 seconds
10-39 = Your message delivered
10-62 = Unable to copy, use phone
10-34 = Trouble at this station, help is needed
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
DRL (Daytime Running Lights)
System that automatically turns on a vehicle's low beam headlights when the parking brake is released and the ignition is on.
Disc Wheel
Single-piece rim/wheel assembly of stamped and welded steel or forged aluminum, anchored by 8 or 10 nuts to a hub. A "Budd wheel" is a ten-hole, stud-piloted disc wheel; a design originated by the Budd Corporation.
Bobtail
Traveling without a trailer
Fog lifter
Interesting CB'er
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.