Please explain to a rookie trucker like me why i need a CB radio.

I like your attitude with the above statement.

I run oversize and often with pilot cars, so I need one (as per state laws re: oversized moves).

It's on 90% of the time. You'll find a lot more open deck and bull haulers run them.

I agree with most all of the comments here , for and against. There's a CB sub forum here if you do decide to get one, to answer what would be best for your setup - if you do decide to get one.

Last week, late at night, out of hours, in KY at a Pilot. Place was full. A driver keyed up and asked if I needed a place to park - I lined up behind him in an easy pull through, and thanked him as he began his shift, and I ended mine. That kinda thing was commonplace 20 years ago when I started.

Ain't no cell phone, GPS, app or artificial intelligence can do that.

 

I disagree with your position.

The mega fleets and the foreign invasion have flooded the industry with the under qualified.

Basing that as a guy with 32 years of long haul who owned his own trucks.

 

Just buy the #### CB.

then you be cool....

 

You don't.

 

Snowy night, light traffic,and you hear a voice on the CB.
"Westbound, back it down.
You got a wreck over the next hill"...
You will be happy that you had your CB on.
'Nuff said.

 

CB’s, horsepower, condoms…..better to have and not need than to need and not have.

 

What he said.... Ditto in spades...

 

Also kind like carrying a pistol in the 1950's) old days. (Most I knew had one in the truck).
Did not rack it and fire off randomly, and a CB does have an off switch. But like a pistol, you can reach for it when needed...
However, I am 90, and I could recite you some wonderful reassurance I had a pistol.
CB's came along later and I used them to advantage in service trucks for an equipment business.

 

One of the scariest part of being a trainer.

Some people in the world do not know their cardinal directions.

Even worse is when they also dont know when water freezes or boils.

 

A CB you don't have installed can never tell you anything useful.
A CB you have installed MIGHT tell you something useful.
You tell us what useful info you want to hear and we'll tell you if you need a CB.