Trucker Slang

I always hear this fellow named B J on the radio wanting to talk on another channel.

 

I'm sorry, but I'm still laughing at this. Jerry Reed, maybe at times. But the rest of them?



We were talking about the seat-on-the-floor guys:

 

In the 70's there was a TV show called Kojak he was plain clothes cop and kodak was a picture taker.

 

Mainly I hear all the old lingo on base stations with some dude who loves to talk to truckers all day.

 

13 letter manure spreader.18 wheel swedish lawn mower was a Volvo

 

In the old day's u could count on getting directions over the cb. In some areas base operators were always there to give direction or get u around low bridges or just talk. In the 70's everybody had cb's. I think an agency called the FCC tried to police it. Any way it was a fun running down the road with a lot of truck's, the miles went by faster

 

International-stalk-cutter,hay baler,row binder,farmal. GMC -jimmy,detriot-yamaha because they were two cycle engines and made lots of noise. Portable parking lot was a car hauler,portable pipeline was a petroleum tanker,thermos bottle was a pressure vessel such a propane truck,wiggle wagon was double's,bull wagon,grain wagon and so on there was pretty much a slang for anything and everything.