CB Slang-How many

Did everyone jusy watch Smokey and the Bandit?

 

What about another one for Swift? Sure Wish I Finished Training.

 

OK I know the Monfort lane is the hammer lane because Monfort trucks are always in it blowing your doors off as they pass at the speed of light. Had that happen a few times. Is Monfort even around any more? Are they still super truckers? I only ever saw them out west past Illinois.

Turned around ten speed? Is that when you have a ten that you have two of the gears reversed for more power? I drove a truck once, a Western Star that had two of the gears reversed so that the shift pattern was changed from an H pattern to (hope I explain this right) top of the H down, then instead of going back up, you just move over a hole for the next gear, then the gear after that you move back up to the top of the H.

 

Oh I just thought of a couple.

Brownie stick. Where the tranny has two separate sticks that shift the truck. Ran into a guy once that had an older truck with a double stick in it. I had to see it in action so he took me for a cruise around the parking lot. No freakin way would I have been able to operate one of those. Talk about talented. And he made it look like child's play.

Pig Pen - a pig hauler of course!

Puppy pack, puppy train - doubles and triples. I heard it like one time so I don't know if it's popular, or used to be.

 

If anyone wants I can post the list of Police "10" codes also. I Was a police dispatcher for 5 years and some of them are pretty useful...

"Monkey in the Middle"- Cop running radar from the center median
"Town Clown"- local cop
"### Grabbing"- Tailgating
"Rolling Refinery"- Tanker ( know it's old but it's kinda cool)

 

So do drivers in the US still say stuff like "That's a big 10-4 good buddy" or have I just been watching too many 1970's trucker movies?

And here's a question I've often wondered about: When you listen to the song Convoy by C W McCall, or watch the movie, the main trucker is called Rubber Duck. Is this based on a real person? As in, was there a real-life Rubber Duck who organised the convoy? And if so, who was he?

Just curious......

 

"10-4 good buddy," let me brake it down. We use 10-4 still that means- OK......good buddy-now means gay truck driver, I NEVER used it all together like that even when it was OK to use.



No, CW McCall wasn't even a truck driver. He was notice on a fuel commercial before he was a singer. As for the Rubber Duck........We have a lot of guys that use that CB handle but, there was no such convoy like that. Back in the day we ran in small groups we called convoys. It was a good time, when everyone still laughed. Nothing like bringing in reinforcements from the Illinois National Guard for eight five screamin trucks and eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus.lol Yes, I know the song quite well. Convoys are now actually illegal. We have to call them parades. I wish there was a real Rubber Duck. Maybe he could organize a better strike.

 

There is actually a list of about forty 10 codes that where used at one time. About the only two you hear used anymore is 10-4 and 10-20. And 10-20 is typically shorted to just 20 it means "Whats your location?" or a location.

Whats the 20 on that full grown polar bear?
Oh hes at about the hundred and twenty yardstick.
Well are the Chickens Lose On the Scale Eating Doughnuts?
Thats a big 10-4.

 

There's a large list of 10-codes, but 10-4 and 10-20 are some of the few that usually don't change from one police department to the next. If you look online and search for "10 codes", you'll find a lot of police departments use different 10 codes. There are places online where you can stream certain police scanners over the 'net. I'd put my headphones on in bed at night and listen for a while before I went to sleep. It was hard to keep up, especially when you were listening to 3 or 4 police stations at once and had to find the right 10 code. Stolen car? Whoops, no, it was domestic assault. It was entertaining.

 

Double breasted yamaha..318 Turned around 10...9th and 10th gear were switched (made 10th gear real high geared) Tree limb...Branch Trucking Chicken Shack..If I remember right that was Peggy's on route 40 in Bear Delaware I sure miss those days. In CB radio's infancy (trucking wise) 13 was the common channel since it was the National Call Channel anyway. Then channel 10 became the truckers channel. Then since that was so close to channel 9 (emergency channel) and caused bleedover problems on emergency traffic the FCC asked the truckers to change so truckers went to channel 19.