![]() ![]() Here's a glossary of the 20 trucking terms you should know before you become a truck driver. This is why they decided to come up with some trucking terms that anyone driving on the road in a big truck could relate to and laugh about. This makes seeing and experiencing the same this over and over again super relatable to other truck drivers. But, for many truckers, there are some exciting ways they can make it fun! Unlike most regular drivers, a truck driver's job requires them to be on the road for long periods, sometimes even throughout the whole day. The 10 part doesn't mean anything and is simply there because it took a fraction of a second for the early radios to wake-up and so the first word of a message might be lost.Being on the road for a long time can get tiring and boring. ![]() The 10codes date back well before CB radio to the first use of mobile police radio in the 1930s. In other words, don't try this near home. Means of obtaining information about road construction, accidents andġ To anyone who listened to the song: by no means do I condone crashing police barricades that are reinforced with National Guard troops at 98 MPH. This caused a waning of interest among hobbyists.ĬB radio is still used by truck drivers, and remains an effective On a finite number of frequencies during the mid-to-late 1970s andĮarly 1980s, channels often were noisy and communication difficult. May have become a victim of its own popularity with millions of users Phones, the internet and the Family Radio Service. ![]() Maybe there is a reason, but that reason is closely guarded 10-35 (confidential information).Īccording to Wikipedia, CB is still in use today:ĬB has lost much of its original appeal due to development of mobile McCall radio hit Convoy (which, if you want to hear a whole truckload of CB slang, you can listen to the song on YouTube 1).Įven when it was in its heyday, most non-truckers knew very few of the "Ten Codes" ( this website lists scores of them), but they did know 10-4, and they also knew the term "Breaker" (which was used to initiate a conversation one of the CB's 40 channels).Īs for the Ten Codes, and why 10-10 means, "I'm done," and 10-4 means "I heard you," rather than the other way around, I'm not sure there's any particular reason. In the mid-1970's, trucker/CB lingo made its way into popular culture, spurred in part by the movie Smokey and the Bandit, and the C.W. Truckers have shorthand ways of speaking to each other over the radio, and "10-4" means "Yes, I acknowledge," similar to the way pilots and air traffic controllers use the term "Roger," and military radio operators use "Copy." Sometimes the chatter is just to pass the time other times, helpful information is passed between truckers. Truckers use CB radios to talk to each other during long hauls on the interstate highway system of the United States. But what does it represent for? Why "10-4" is combined with "clear"? Can I say “10-4 answer /message/ report/ plan” in describing clear answer /message/ report/ plan”? It seems “10-4” refers to a call sign for something. I personally mix and match sometimes I say "10-4", other times I say "clear". For example a 10-50 in Indiana is a traffic accident, but in Texas it's a murder. “A lot of the 10 codes are different from city to city and state to state. ![]() So I searched for its meaning on Google, and found a certain clue from the following text in www.answerbag: I saw the word “ 10-4 copy” for the first time. That's a good example of how the phrase could be applied, and would be well-understood," to the question, “Can I say ‘the Palestinian territorial issues is an effort in trying to tame the infinite’, “which I added to the yesterday’s question. He, the answerer gave me the comment saying, “(It’s) 10-4. I could have asked this question personally to my respected colleague who gave me a valuable answer to the question, “Is the ‘tame the infinite becoming an idiom or a popular phrase,” which I posted yesterday, but I thought this deserves an independent question. ![]()
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