UH OH! They DO..........!

Who said I was hating on truckers?

2% of the truckers might have the noise toys, more than that might play music, the 95% I was referring to don't use the radio w/o using some sort of curse word.

 

Had he not been trying to annoy all the others ont he radio with his cursing, noise toys etc then no one would have cared about how much power his station put out.

It was not so much what he had in his station but how he was using it.

Had he just been having normal convos with others and not trying to be a dick then no one would have cared, even the FCC.

 

You've just been making a few comments here and there talking down about truckers.

Well less than 95% of truckers curse on the radio(I'm in that group, and I know quite a few others). You have no idea what truckers are like, you may a know a few on here and in real life, and have heard some on the cb, but you don't know enough to paint them with a brush that broad. The reason I know you don't is that I've been one for a good while now, and I've met thousands of drivers, and I don't know enough to make statements about any kind of behavior that 95% of them have in common.

In my experience, hobby cb operators in four-wheelers are far, FAR more likely to be disturbing the peace on the air than the ones in trucks. I'm not saying that truck drivers don't contribute, or that all (or 95%) of hobby cbers transmit garbage, but as a percentage, the hobbyists (ahehehehem, like you) are the better bet for the above three bad behaviors.

 

I hear you, I will admit that when I am running with a group from our company, we usually find a quiet channel, Usually the "farm" and we will all get on it and "raz" each other for fun. The big dif is that were are not using the popular channels so that we do not disturb others.

 

Yeah, there's a big difference between that and getting on 19 and trying to get a rise out of whoever will get irritated first.

 

never heard of anyone "recording" and then rebroadcasting talk.
talk about annoying.

 

RECORDING/REBROADCASTING Cb is NOT directly illegal There is no requirement to give a call or a id on CB.

If the person it not interfering they are a PIA nothing more.

 

Ok then please show me where on here have I ever talked down a trucker. Go head. I'll wait for you to try to find something.

Less than 95% of the truckers on the radio cuss eh? Ok. I'll remember this next time I hear several of them that can't make it past 4 words without dropping the F bomb or the S bomb or the N word. No not all truckers cuss over the radio, but a majority of them do.

That's funny how you try to say it's the hobbyists that cause more problems. Truth is that doesn't even make sense as there's but a very small group of hobbyists left (guess who uses the CB more often?) and most of them don't even get into all the crap on the radios todays. Yeah once in a while some kids will get on a radio just to annoy everyone but most are your older civil folks. But hey when you're grabbing for straws I guess you hope anything works right?

Let me guess, it's also the hobbyists that sit in the truck stops that run so much power when they key up they shut everything down and make the lights come on too right?

 

Sorry Josh, but I have to disagree. Around here you're more likely to be harassed by a trucker passing through than you are a local base. I can't count the times we've been chatting on 27.355 and all of a sudden it's "F this and F that and you SOB's aint gonna talk til I let ya." They're in there for a few minutes, gone for a few hours, and then they come back through with the same garbage. With the exception of a very few, the cb'ers around here don't cause alot of problems.

 

First off, I owe you an apology, I thought you and I had a discussion a couple months ago where I tried to dissuade you from playing music over the radio, but it was someone else. My Bad.

As for your posts talking down to truckers, it's not like you blatantly treat us as your inferior, but you do talk about us running inferior antennas, etc, and, being as I thought you were someone else, every time I read something you wrote in that vein, it irritated me a little. Again, my apologies.

As far as the 95% figure goes, just because you hear several guys that can't go four words without cursing on the air, doesn't mean that 95%, or even a majority of them do. Most conversations between truckers are of the "what's that chicken house doing" variety. I base this on the ten thousand or more hours I've spent listening to channel 19. I also base my assertion that, as a whole, the cb hobbyists (in 4wheelers and on base stations) are more apt to purposefully irritate the rest of the folks on the air than the truckers on that experience. I'm not saying that the hobbyists do more of the irritating, I'm saying that by ratio, the hobbyists are more likely to spew garbage on the air, whether it's with noises, music, cursing, or just generally trying to disturb the peace.

On the hobbyists sitting in the truckstops trying to lock down the channel, you've got me. It does happen from time to time, I've seen somebody in the 4wheeler parking lot doing it more than once, but that's the exception, not the rule-it is usually someone in a truck.

I'm probably getting into this deeper than it really needs to be, but I meet people on a regular basis that tell me they "can't believe you're a trucker," or that "it's good to know there's at least one good truck driver out there." (I got the latter just this weekend from a graphic designer I met at a Christmas party, as a matter of fact) I always tell them that most all truckers are like me, they're just regular folks trying to make a living at a very difficult job, and that they have families and friends that they love just like everyone else. Lots of folks have bad impressions of the truck driving community from a few knuckleheads on the road that make dangerous moves to get ahead 200 yards and don't shower for a week at a time. So when I get on this forum for truckers, by truckers, and read folks attributing an undesirable character trait to "95% of truck drivers," it really gets under my skin, the same way it does when it's applied to black people, Mexicans, Christians, Jews, Muslims, or whatever other group come up with.

Sorry for making such a big deal out of this, but protecting the integrity of my chosen profession from slander and libel is a BIG DEAL to me.