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Your truck driver 10-Codes of the Day
10-77 = Negative Contact
10-67 = All units comply
10-12 = Visitors Present
10-5 = Relay Message
10-34 = Trouble at this station, help is needed
Your Truck driving Definitions of the Day
Compensated Intracorporate Hauling
Freight transportation service provided by one company for a sister company.
County Mounty
Highway patrol
Kingpin (axle)
Pin around which a steer axle's wheels pivot.
CDL (Commercial Driver's License)
License which authorizes an individual to operate commercial motor vehicles and buses over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. For operators of freight-hauling trucks, the maximum size which may be driven without a CDL is Class 6 (maximum 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight).
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.