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Rotating lamps
1) Term for lamps legally defined as beacons - those which rotate to give a flashing effect. Blue permitted on emergency service and certain other special vehicles (eg those transporting human tissue for transplant, bomb disposal, mines rescue, mountain rescue), amber permitted on range of breakdown, Special Types, highway service vehicles, etc and green on doctors' cars (see Doctor's beacons).
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Rota
1) List showing names of people and times at which they must undertake given duties (eg of bus drivers' working patterns). See also Roster.
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RoSPA
1) Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Body concerned very much with road accidents and very active in accident prevention. Awards accident-free driving medals.
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ROSCO
1) Road Operators' Safety Council. Promotes road safety principally in the bus and coach industry, but also includes road haulage interests. Founded 1955. Administers annual safe driving awards scheme.
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ROM
1) Read only memory. Computer terminology.
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22.07.2013 12:02 |
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Rolling road
1) Equipment used in vehicle workshops and test stations, etc to provide facility for testing brakes. Also used in connection with calibrating tachographs.
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Rotable
1) An repairable inventory item that can be repeatedly restored to a fully serviceable condition and re-used over the normal life cycle of the parent equipment to which it is related.
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Roster
1) List showing turns of duty (or leave) for people at work (eg bus drivers).
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ROSCOs
1) Rolling stock companies. A constituent of the privatized railway system providing passenger coaches under lease to the train operating companies (TOCs).
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22.07.2013 12:06 |
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RO/RO
1) Roll-on/roll-off. Loading method for ships whereby wheeled freight (eg road vehicles and trailers) is driven or shunted on to specially-built RO/RO ferry ships.
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22.07.2013 12:03 |
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Rolling stock
1) Term to describe rail wagons and carriages, etc. Also occasionally used in respect of goods vehicles, trailers, buses and coaches.
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22.07.2013 12:01 |
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Rolling motorway
1) Intermodal transport system where complete road vehicles are carried on special drive-on/drive-off low-height rail wagons (eg Eurotunnel's freight shuttle through the Channel Tunnel).
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