CB, a dying truck driver tool, what y'all think??

Russia has CB radios, too?
Cool!

 

Yep! I don't get that either, Volvo244t! I'm a grown man. Heard and said just about every vile word known to man at one time or another. It's just words, so I don't get how other grown men, or women who want to be equal to men, get their undies in a wad about a few bad words, now and then. As I have long noted, those pretending to be pure as the driven snow, taking extreme offense and recoil to bad words, they know what they mean apparently so how can they be so "pure"?
Yeah, some of the convo's get a bit monotonous and repetitive, and some of the noisemakers and echo mics likewise, but the warnings and good info more than make up for the annoyances, IMHO.

 

I doubt if the CB will ever be an obsolete item for truckers unless a very serious equivalent comes along. I am one of those old farts who had a Korean war radio in the cab when I started my first trucking job in 1958. I was 18 at the time and thought God had provided me a gift. I had no idea at the time what a piece of sh** those radios were. Got my first real CB when I went to work as a real OTR in 1962 for Trans America. With those old cabovers, (a Diamond-Reo) we couldn't hear the radio most of the time because of the road noise. To this day, even after retirement, I still have a CB in my house and one in my pick up. I wouldn't be without one. Still have the same handle on top of my original license #. "Snowalker" and the handle got tagged to me for an honest reason.

When I travel, I still get return traffic from OTRs on the CB. Talk their lingo, keep it polite and sensible and enjoy the night time companionship. Live in Canada now; 3/4 of the way to the top of a mountain in Rossland BC; junction of hwy 22 & 3b (north of Spokane WA). Still chatter with truckers passing through.

 

Green with envy. BC is unequivocally the most beautiful place on this rock we call Earth, with absolutely no competition, anywhere.

 

This is the only place left on the planet where you can spend all day shopping, fishing or wasting away on a high mountain lake and not have to lock your house door; or even close it when you leave. (and yes, it's a fisherman's paradise) When I first started hauling up here I heard stories about the way Canadians live. At first I didn't believe it. Now I do. No guns, very few bar fist fights and everybody talks to everybody.

The town I live in is about 35% American transplants. The dollar value and being close to the border helps, but the big draw is the relaxed lifestyle. With that being said however, if America could get its #### together to cut in half the out of control crime wave and gun totting idiots , I would move back home in the blink of an eye. My old neighborhood in Detroit where I grew up is a ghost town, and what is left of it, you "need" to carry a gun to stop from being mugged, or shot.

 

"Tack away on the phone?" I hope that doesn't mean texting and driving!? Guess you'll never hear the "break check at the #&* mile marker around the corner!" The cb is sooo helpful. Turn it on squelch down a bit. It could save your life, literally.

 

10 yrs running, no CB.

 

But ya like to read about it :-}

 

Rarely use CB but its on and always will be. One of our drivers called me on CB at yard. "Help me out of my truck, trapped again, neither door latch is working" Yes a freightliner.

 

I have been driving for a month now with no CB and everyday I wish I had it in the truck. I haven't installed it yet because the locks on the doors do not work but, that only mattered when I was parking the truck at a truck stop, I now park it at home everyday so,,, Guess I will be installing it asap. Without a CB you will never know that you have problem with your trailer, you don't know about. A problem that could get you pulled over and ticketed, or worse. Without a CB you yourself can not call that driver going down the road dragging a chain behind him. You can not help anyone.