A bad buy i'm thinking on cb

Me

Well those conversations are part of the reason I keep mine off. What I need to hear on the radio is warnings about traffic hazards and the like. What I don't need or even want to hear is a one hour bore fest about how you want to remodel your bathroom with slate tile but your wife wants to use ceramic but you also saw some nice synthetic concrete tile on this show you can't remember the name of and oh yeah I had a cookout last weekend and I made some hotdaogs but they weren't as good as the hotdogs you made last month boy those were some good hotdogs and on and on and on.

I don't think I've ever been bored enough to find listening to that sort of thing even the slightest bit interesting. I just want to know where the hazards are. But I don't want to know bad enough
to put up listening to Uncle Milti prattle on for hours about the great pork chops he ate once in 1974.

Maybe if more folks took that sort of thing to another channel there would more drivers keeping their radio on for the exchange of actual useful Information.

 

I don't care to listen to most conversations either. I do enjoy taking part in a good conversation from time to time though. I leave my radio on but the squelch turned up in case I meet somebody that gives me a hollar. I will turn it down if I'm running in the same directions as some boring ratchet jaws, but I never turn it off except at bed time. It's saved me too many times! There have been many times in the last few years I've needed to ask a question and see trucks all around but can't get a answer. Sure is nice when somebody comes back to you and helps you out! That is the kind of trucker I want to be

 

the best conversations are 2-3 trucks in the wee hours highballing it, sometimes with a 4-wheeler out front with a pile of electronics on the dash sniffing for bear.

 

Ive been in all three of those situations lol always a good time!!!

 

It really seems that truckers keep to themselves anymore. I feel that the generation gap between the new breeds and the old school are to blame. I feel that they would rather talk to their GF/Wife, buddy, etc then get on the radio and try to start up a good convo. Its a shame IMO. The cb and the trucker are like pb and j. They go togther that well. I love going into bigger citites. Even though there is a lot of "trash" out there, at least there is something!!!! The short time I've been out here i've notice a big dip in CB use. Bear reports are a Joke anymore. "North Bound you got a smokey in the middle shootin ya at the 25.. comeon..." gets ya nothing.

Solution? Lead by example. Thats all we can do.. Have good radios set up, help new breeds with problems they may be having, take action (and perhaps be a little uncomfortable (at first)) to start a convo with a driva., be polite, professional (give bear reports, scale reports, no cussin or fussin, etct).

my .02 for whats its worth..

 

I don't talk on the cb anymore because I have nothing to talk to the guy in the other truck about . I am a trucker I have always been a trucker . I am not an unemployed software guy or a out of work carpenter . I have not been a bank teller or a shoe salesman . I am and always will be a trucker . I have no desire to do anything else I wouldn't do anything else even if I could .

So if I was to talk to the guy in the other truck I don't care that he is just doing this because he can't get a job doing anything else . I don't care that he hates his job and his dispatcher and his government and the whole dang world .

I don't have time for all the hate and discontent and I refuse to take part in all negativity . I will give a bear report but I don't expect the same in return . I understand that a 62 mile an hour truck don't care about a speed cop in a 70 mile an hour state.

I have accepted the fact the majority or the people in my profession don't want to be here and hate themselves and any one else in the industry because they are miserable . So forgive me if I am not a chatty Kathy with the unemployed out of work hater .

I will speak and be courteous and but don't expect me to participate in the destruction of the industry that I have made my life !

As for the stupidity on the radio it has been part of trucking since I started and I don't see it ending anytime soon . As long as the idiots can hide and nobody calls them out it will always be with us but we don't have condone it or participate in it .

The days of the cb have fallen to the new technology like some many other parts of this great world of ours . They will be rembered fondly and will be missed by those of us that were there for the heyday but the truth is them days are gone and they aren't coming back .

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE .

 

Ten years from now, if you want to buy a new CB, you're going to be able to choose between about 4 different models from two different companies. The market for them is dying and will continue to do so. I would also predict that 10 years from now, if you buy a brand new truck and you want to put a CB in it, you're going to have to order a $250 wiring kit from the dealer in order to make it work.

 

I think you are correct, and I miss those days..............

 

out on the highway we will use it sometimes...but not very much...we use them alot in the field and at the pile grounds but with the invention of cell phones and such they are becoming a thing of the past...still kind of cool to play with tho

 

Just last month, I dropped off my trusty old Cobra 148 for some work and bought a cheap little Pro 510 XL to use in the mean time. Boy an I ever glad I did! In the month that it took me to get back to pick up my old radio, I loaded at three different places that used the CB to communicate with the drivers. That was alone worth the $45 I spent on the little radio. I also had an intelligent conversation with another driver while we drove from Jerome ID to Boulder MT where we parted ways. I haven't done that in years! So, yes I still think a good CB setup is a valuable tool for this job.

As for bear reports, it seems like most people have settled on about 65MPH and you can drive that just about anywhere except California.