Furthermore, I do not plan on making anyone use it! Only encourage the benefits of using it as an important tool in their normal day to day truck activity. This is something that should have been done many years ago.
aimhigh
What cb radio channels are for Foreign Drivers: This should have been done long ago!
Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by aimhigh, Aug 9, 2014.
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I would say this is my objective!
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I monitor 19 for info (or bs) just loud enough to hear over the stereo.....if I run into a buddy we flip to some other channel, usually 21, 16 is the pit in Kitchener, 24 is the pit in Paris....if I forget to go back to 19 leaving Kitchener, I get québécois info, still works, I'm still kinda bilingual lol....
"Road closed" or "exit now" should be understood by EVERY driver.....
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The media outlets I mentioned are organizations such as Randall Reilly, the Trucker, Trucker News and many other Trucking related media. I WILL BE PAYING FOR THE AD(s) MYSELF.
I hope that this brief explanation will help you to better understand the angle I am coming from.
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You said you would start advertising it. That cost money on your end. The way to make that money is to charge for it. That's where I was coming from. Nothing against you. I just think it will never work. I don't have a CB yet so no use to me. Half of the truckers could careless the other half that do won't either because they don't know about it (lets face it, almost impossible to get word to EVERY driver). The ones that do know about it will either tell you others to learn English, since that is what is spoken here, or will be busy doing other things like driving a truck. Only way I see this working us calling the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and have them mandate this.
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I think the first step would have to be to get drivers to turn the radio on when they are not in traffic.
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What????? Because I periodically forget to switch channels after leaving the pit, I have "no clue"........
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Having talked to many foreign drivers over the past four years "there is a major interest within these groups" they would never have to use or turn to channel 19; that is of course only if they wanted to.
Getting the FCC involved (which I do not want to do) would be useless in this case.
Last, and my most important point; "THIS CHART IS NOT FOR THE AMERICAN DRIVER"! It is meant to encourage our foreign drivers to feel comfortable using the cb radio, learn the emergency capabilities of using the cb radio and how to give help and to receive help using the cb radio.
I will also be encouraging young American (both men and women) drivers and our foreign host to learn Amateur (ham) radio. Every truck driver should know how to access 2 meter and 70cm repeaters using at minimum a handheld dual band 2m/70cm radio, set the +/- offset and enter the pll tone of radios.
Helpful sites that I encourage all of you to check out:
1. Watch video: www.radioqrv.com
2. Join Skywarn to learn mobile weather reporting: www.skywarnonline.com
3. Read: about2meters/hamuniverse.com
4. Read www.k0nr.com/rwitte/2Mssb
FOR THE NEW OTR DRIVERS WHO WERE TOLD /TRAINED NOT TO USE A CB RADIO Search:
www.citizensbandat50StillUseful,StillScorned Ken Reitz KS4ZR
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Don't get me wrong. Neat idea and neat undertaking. I hope it works for ya. I'd actually like to learn ham radio so id be interested in that. If u don't plan on trying to scam people out of money I say good luck and I'll be interested to see how it works.
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