CB Radios: Invaluable Safety Tools

Yeah, that's because too many turn them off/take them out.

STOP. IT. You are not a professional if you don't have AND USE a CB. There, I said it, not taking it back or apologizing.

 

That is not my experience. Traffic jams make drivers turn 'em on and, if you ask, somebody will usually tell you what the deal is

 

I'll run channel 21 when running with other drivers.I avoid sesame street..aka 19.

 

By the time you turned it on its too late, your stuck in the back up. I want to know ahead of the back up to avoid it if possible.

 

My Garmin 780 tells me about backups many miles in advance, but if I cant avoid the backup, CB chatter tells me which lanes are open

 

I find my radio to be more entertainment than assistant, In years gone by they were tremendously helpful, We would find out about problems between Barstool and the River while still in Central Valley, but not so much any more, I still run the old Galaxy 95t works well, but hear very little useful information. Just try and find out if a scale is open or not, good luck. Just most drivers have there head plugged into a bluetooth device playing books or what ever. Anyway just not the same as it was.

 

Absolutely nowhere near the same. When I started fiddling with CB early 1970's, you couldnt get a word in edgewise

 

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FFS, man. Idiocracy really was a documentary disguised as a comedy.

 

Sometimes out in the middle of nowhere a CB is only communication. Lots of places without cell service. Never leave home without it

 

My first radio was a Midland 13862b, I think some where around 1975 or so.... We used to meet a Shakeys in Burbank for Breaks... Great fun. I lived near the top of Olive in Burbank overlooking the whole valley, was a good place for the radio.. I think my original call was KXO1307.