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

Please quote where I claimed Swift said CBs are a distraction.

Otherwise, quit poking at me.

 

While you're at it, please also quote where I said I think CBs are a distraction.

I believe I said I have one. I just choose to leave mine off for the most part because I don't care to listen to the BS. What's wrong with that and how does it affect you?




I turn my CB on when I need to: To tell oncoming traffic of a potential hazard, to hear what lane I need to be in while in this jam-up, when someone goes by motioning at the radio (usually, it's just some smartarse) if someone is on the side of the road to check their status (most don't answer) and to tell someone else of a potential hazard on their equipment they may not know about.

Why does it offend some people that I don't want to hear someone's life story or how much of that little girl's DDs are showing? I don't make a big deal out of it. I just turn it off. Does it make me a bad driver? No. It makes me a less tense one.

 

many places you need one. some security offices have their channel listed for you to call them when you arrive. some scales they want you to call them on channel 6 and so forth. Injun I;m with you I turn mine way down, but seldom speak when rolling unless its necessary.

 

I will not rest until I can blow the doors off the truck next to me. Hard to do with a company truck!

 

They are not the only one.

My company has already banned cell phone use and GPS units. Satellite radios and smoking are strongly discouraged. They are making a big deal about eating, drinking, and changing radio stations while driving. Now there is talk about a ban on having CB's in the trucks.

This is due to a large number of accidents all across the fleet. We are having accidents where drivers hit things just because they were not paying attention. I don't really think they blame it on having a CB or a bottle of water, but the company is getting frustrated and doesn't know what else to do (and have told us as much).

 

My company's VP was at some kind of conference somewhere and heard that Werner was getting sued because one of their drivers rolled his truck and then told the investigators he was distracted by the Qualcomm. So when our VP got back, he called up Qualcomm and had them enable the motion-sensor that disables the Qualcomm so it doesn't work when the truck is moving. On our old systems we had to stop the truck to read a message. But now our new systems they bought for e-log capability have the same setting, but they have this remote thing, when we get a message we can have the robot voice read the message through the truck speakers. It's kind of funny because it doesn't properly interpret dispatcher short-hand.

Example: dispatcher types "YOUR DEL APPT IS 2100" meaning "your delivery appointment is 21:00". The computer can interpret "appt" as "appointment" but it doesn't know that DEL is "delivery". Even though the state postal codes went to the 2-letter system about 15 or 20 years ago, it for some reason thinks "DEL" is "Delaware". So it will say "Your Delaware appointment is two thousand one hundred".

Sometimes it's funny, but other times it can be confusing, especially if I have a multi-stopper and one of those stops happens to be in Delaware.

 

What i did , i never turn my cb off, what i did is turn the squalch , so the loudest transmission could be heard, then a hair more, mine was the weather built in and that was nice,when torando alert came on , beep beep it goes off, but then if im in truckstop , i turn it off, cause i don't want too hear some driver new toy's he put on the his radio, like roger beep, so annoying, like one time i got on the cb in truckstop too help a driver back in , he coudnt hear me over the chatter, he just about hit that guy's front as he was backing in from the left, he could not see his right side, so i layed on the airhorn and got him stopped in time, wether a driver likes or not , ill get out my truck and help in the back up too his spot, i just call it showing respect for other people truck's, i'always been that way wacthing other people stuff,

 

I have cleavage? Where?

 

He might have been talking about your hiney cleavage. Stop wearing those low-slung britches and you won't be such a distraction.