How often do you Use/Listen to the CB Radio?

[BUZZSAW]

Excellent Chickenman ! Good post . I agree 100% . Happy New Year !

[MedicineMan]

I drive a mix if local and otr. My radio is NEVER on in my daycab unless I come up on some trafic jam or something.

WHen I drive OTR it's on most the time but squelched out a good bit. Sometimes when the babies with there noise makers get to be too much I turn it off or way down and then check it later, usually after I'v passed the truckstop.

[Slow Hand]

Wish we could utilize the other 39 channels better, like different chanels for chat, road conditions, fuel island congestion, spanish, traffic etc. With my basic model, I can never get anything in when I need to, so I generally just keep it off.

[Keith48]

Originally Posted by Slow Hand

Wish we could utilize the other 39 channels better, like different chanels for chat, road conditions, fuel island congestion, spanish, traffic etc.

This is a great idea. The problem would be in getting it implemented.

[kc0rey]

Originally Posted by Slow Hand

Wish we could utilize the other 39 channels better, like different chanels for chat, road conditions, fuel island congestion, spanish, traffic etc. With my basic model, I can never get anything in when I need to, so I generally just keep it off.

This would never happen, Here is why:

1. It would be illegal (No channel can be set aside for any user, (The FCC has set aside Channel 9 for Emergency and trafic info) and this is one of the reasons channel 19 can never be set aside for truckers.)

2. That would require a major undertaking on the drivers part.....you just can't get truckdrivers to stick together on anything.

3. Most drivers don't even turn their radios on anymore except when they want to know why the traffic stopped........

[BUZZSAW]

TRue KC ! Sad, but true.

[Chrome]

This is how useless the CB has now became. Today i was heading out of Seattle and saw another one of our trucks kinda rare (as I work for a small carrier 40 trucks) and I turned up my radio and called him on the radio to find out what the pass was like. He answered it was bare and dry and he hadnt seen a bear since Oregon. 5 miles later there was a speed trap and 10 miles past that it started snowing like no tommorrow. As I kinda scatched my head and thought if I cant even rely on people I know what has this come 2? As I turned my CB back down turned the radio back up and carried on my way and remembered new breed of driver.

[Gearjammin' Penguin]

Hey, Drivers, are ya sure you're getting out like you should? I can have your radio peaked and tuned within the hour and you'll know you're reaching to the outer atmosphere of Mars. C'mon back to the CB Shop, located in back of Habib's Truckstop on I-107, we're on Channel 17.

[Steve & Lo]

The way I see it....it's a tool. If you don't use it, you'll be sitting in traffic with all the other XM/Sirius junkies. They don't give traffic reports on those.....unless you count ####....and you can't trust much of what you hear on there anyway.....

[25(2)+2]

I still leave mine on most of the time, if things are getting too nasty, I turn it down for awhile but always bring it back after I'm away from the truck stop or Chi-town. I won't get satellite radio unless I start doing a lot more Rocky Mountains, one trip to Utah through Colorado in three years isn't enough to make me need a sat. radio. I listen to WBBM in Chicago on the way there to figure which way I need to go in and while Im there to get around jams, lately its all jammed a lot.