Is a CB Radio really necessary to have?

A CB is instantaneous information. Cell phone info can be hours old and if a bear sees you he thinks you're talking and texting. Cell phones are nice but they don't solve all the world's problems.

Not to mention the shipper/receiver which most of any size I've been to require a CB including Walmart. I will say if you don't have one you don't have to lay there half asleep monitoring the CB waiting for them to call your truck. They will make an exception and have someone knock on your door. But it is recognized as a tool of the trade and you are expected to have one.

You never know when traffic is stopped over the crest of a hill or around a blind corner. You never know if an overpass is iced over or traffic stopped in a fog bank or in heavy rain or that bear has someone pulled over a mile ahead yet you have traffic beside you. You never know an accident just happened. You could wait an hour for someone to report it on the phone but what good would that do? It's already cleaned up.

Sure CBs have their bad points like around truck stops with bored yahoos that don't have a TV or internet. It does have an on/off knob. Be smarter than the knob.
When a truck stop is full I'll ask if anyone is getting ready to leave and I'll usually get a hit. Not only will they respond but they will communicate and hold the spot for you. All courtesy of a CB. Let's see a cell phone do that.

There might be a time you need help at a truck stop, need to borrow a tool or have something to sell or want to buy.... the CB is your friend.


Besides all that you ain't a trucker unless you have a CB handle!

 

I like your signature. So true. But I think you got some words tangled. Should it say "does not make a truck driver" instead of "does not a truck driver make" or is there something to it that I didn't catch. Just figured id mention it. Not being an a hole. Lol

 

traffic updates work in all cities and towns that I've been to, the big ones and the small ones. The only catch as you said is reception, but in every major metro area, you're gonna have adequate cell service to use the gps/map feature on your phone.

where did I ever say anything about messing with your cell phone while you're driving??? Now you're just making things up.

It's called a windshield mount for your cell phone. Before you start driving, you turn on your gps on your phone, you open your map program, and you can scan it just as easily as you can your Garmin GPS or your Rand McNally, and you can get a live update without ever taking your hands off the wheel or being distracted. Or you can pull over at a rest stop before you go into a city and turn on those things as well.



and cell phones work in all major metropolitan cities where you're going to have rush hour traffic that is backed up for miles and for hours, which is the primary example I was saying it should be used in.

few events occur like the Mayfield, Arkansas tornado on I-40 where cars and semi's were scattered, but there is good reception there. I doubt you're going to find a traffic jam out in the middle of the desert or between Reno and Wendover, UT. Get a grip. seriously. smh.

My god, crawl out of your cave, put down your club, take off your buffalo loincloth and put on some human clothes, and stop talking in your ooga chaka ooga chaka tongue. aight? Welcome to the 21st century. technology is a grand thing. the sooner you embrace it and stop your pre-historic behaviors, the better you and the rest of us will all be.

Ah, really...making broad generalizations I see. Too bad I run quite efficiently WITHOUT a CB, so I don't have to listen to all the whining, complaining and pissing and moaning. I'm over 2500 miles every week, and aside from my truck breaking down, I avoid delays with traffic because of using my phone's gps and map to go around!

i am not a him. do you know how to read a signature line? Since when is Brianne ever a man's name?? I have a bluetooth headset and my phone is set to automatically answer calls.

next attempt at your failure please.

 

Congratulations, I don't read sigs because most of it pertains nothing to the subject. Obviously you aren't driving much out west, cell reception is spotty at best, and in some places completely absent. I take it you rely on#cell phone gps for directions everywhere? Do you know how to read and atlas? Does the gps app on the phone do directions for trucks? Because if not, your an accident waiting to happen

 

i find your signature kinda ironic with this current situation. Lmao.

 

This sentence explains it all......^^^^^^^^^^^

But to the OP's question..A cb radio can and will help you out in the ways already mentioned several times in this thread. If you want to be prepared , and it seems that you do get one. It along with any other technology that is available today will be of very good use to you in the future...just because it's an older kind of technology doesn't mean it doesn't work. Kinda like a map and the skill/knowledge to use one....it will always be a tool that you can rely on even if the power goes out...funny how "newbies" like Brianne ....say that map's , cb's , are antiquated and out of date...., they are un-willing to accept the simple fact that the old way still works (often times just as well and sometimes even better than newer tech )...New tech isn't any better than old tech.....it's just "newer "........Any tool that you can easily aquire be it technology or knowledge , will always be a help....not ever a hindrance. But I'm an old man (65 ) with more than a few million miles behind me....Maybe Brianne could help me figure it out...idk......

 

I wasn't going to revisit this thread topic, but I just can't help myself.

To all pro CB posters - yes. Correct. All points.

Best one - "be smarter than the knob".

To all new generation drivers (there seems to be a dividing line), yeah - well, tell me how that works out for you.

A CB has literally saved my life - like the rolled over van story, with no lights.

I secretly wish for an EMP or sun spot event to take out all the NOISE that fills my cluttered senses.

 

That's a direct quote from my wife. I was never capable of listening very well

 

Exercising more subtlety, I say " One must pick his battles wisely".

 

I am an enigma, I go against all rational thought and logic just because I like to argue