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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-5 = Relay Message
10-18 = Anything for us?
10-9 = Repeat Message
10-24 = Completed last assignment
10-65 = Awaiting your next message or assignment
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Logbook
Book carried by truck drivers in which they record their hours of service and duty status for each 24-hour period. Required in interstate commercial trucking by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Bulldog
Mack truck
Bobtail
Traveling without a trailer
Tandem Axle (Tandems)
Pair of axles and associated suspension usually located close together. (see Spread Axle)
Axle
Structural component to which wheels, brakes and suspension are attached. Drive axles are those with powered wheels. Front axle is usually called the steer axle. Pusher axles are unpowered and go ahead of drive axles. Rear axles may be drive, tag or pusher types. Tag axles are unpowered and go behind drive axles.