Are Swift Drivers Allowed to have CB's????

That's the beauty of free will. I don't have to listen to crap if I don't want to.

 

However...on the other hand....I've heard tell somewhere.....you can dish it out.....almost like a trucker can!!!!!!

 

I could not drive without a CB. I love listening to some of the crap. Cheap entertainment..

 

My CB is off most of the time. Turn it on near a truck stop or in an urban area and all you hear is the Jerry Springer show.

 

I wish we could get rid of this notion that good drivers have CBs or good drivers don't have CBs. Can we all accept that it is personal choice, and does not affect driving ability one way or the other? There's so much sniping over silly things like CBs, GPSs, Bluetooth headsets, and fingerless gloves. I'll bet those who can judge driving ability by the accessories other drivers use must be the same ones who can judge driving ability by the name on the side of the truck.

 

Good drivers DO have a CB in the truck, but they don't necessarily USE it all the time. An experienced driver knows that it's good to keep the CB on whenever the weather & road conditions are questionable. Especially in the mountains. I've lost track of how many times a major accident has been prevented by people going one direction past an accident/stopped traffic scene on the other side of the highway, then realizing there's a curve or a hill crest so trucks approaching can't see it in time to stop, so they get on the CB and warn those people there's a blind "brake check" ahead.

One time while driving eastbound on US 212 in Montana, climbing this big hill/mountain in the Custer NF between Ashland and Broadus, with visibility about 50 feet and tail-light visibility probably 100 feet, this woman in an old 70's Jeep Cherokee going west had a CB. She saw me and got on the CB and said I had to stop at the top of the hill because there's two flatbeds "on top of each other" halfway down the hill on the other side. So I stopped at the top. Right there, when my antennas came into line-of-sight with the wrecked flatbeds, I was able to hear them saying the same thing, yelling over and over 'EASTBOUND, STOP AT THE TOP! STOP AT THE TOP". Due to the weather and the terrain, I wasn't able to hear them until I got to the top of that hill. So that woman had warned me in advance. Anyway about an hour later when the wreckers arrived, there were 14 other trucks backed up behind me. The weather was so severe none of us could even get out of our trucks for more than a minute or two, it was like minus 30 or 40 or something and it was snowing sideways. When we got the "all clear" we still couldn't move because, following the advice of the rest of us, Swift went ahead and set his trailer brakes because his drive axles weren't enough to hold his truck on the grade he was stopped on. Several of us got out with hammers and LP torches and got his brakes un-frozen (dangerous because it was on solid ice, on a hill) then we all went down the hill one at a time, each guy calling back to the top when he made it to the bottom, because there was NO WAY to stop once you start down that hill. We re-grouped along the slow, 25 mph trek from there to Broadus, trying to maintain a following distance close enough to see the next guy's tail lights, but far enough back to react if he crashed. Eventually we ALL pulled into the parking lot at Cashway's Diner and stayed put til the storm was over and the road was better.
Every single one of us had a CB in the truck, and we all made good use of them that day. Not a single guy mentioned anything about "not wearing any panties" though one guy did mention while going down that hill that he might need to CHANGE his.

 

If you choose not to run a radio, good for you, but don't expect a friendly reply from at least me when you're the one that goes, "What's the holdup".
Learn to filtre the trash, that radio can save the bacon if used properly.

 

I tried running the radio recently.

3 times I listened to all the garbage.

3 times I ended up in traffic jams with no notice on the radio.


Seems it might be better to buy one of the new GPS like a friend has that sends him traffic updates and not having to listen to the garbage.

Silence is golden.

 

Could be I've got a better BS filtre than some. I totally agree to no notice many times, it happens, but, I'll still run mine, except around West Memphis. It's anyones choice to do or not.

Not directed at you, but the same guys that don't run their radios, are likely the same guys that won't give an accident/brake check/etc. report, hence the maybe not overly cordial reply at times.
It's still not something that's going to scar me for life, but that thing "can" be useful many times.

Now that GPS!?!?. That's something I will not use!

 

Yeah, throw that GPS out the window.

And stay the **** out of Joliet, IL on I-80. If you ain't running your CB through there, then here's your heads-up.

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