Is a CB Radio really necessary to have?

Turned mine off 5 year ago.
cant stand the garbage

 

im no one month wonder. Jut out here like anyone else, doing my job as efficiently as I can, being safe, and productive and earning a living.

by many standards im not even a professional? well thanks. I did complete cdl school, I did take the test and get my CLD, I did complete my 275 hours training curriculum with werner, and I did solo out for my own truck and earn my stripes. I am out there driving accident free every single day! so how am I not a professional? I may not be seasoned and well experienced like other drivers who have been doing it for years, but that doesn't make me not a professional.

and yes, I am still learning...but all the wonderful truckers I talk to at truck stop diners, that I converse with and ask advice and wisdom from tell me, there's not a single day that goes by where they don't learn something new themselves about their truck or their job as a truck driver. and that's the beauty of it all.

Hearing I'm not a professional from a newb still in cdl school is rather insulting. get your CDL first before you go claiming others as not being "professionals". you're not even a rookie yet. you're not even a student driver yet. you don't even collect a paycheck as a truck driver.

I've got 7 weeks of trainee pay, and another 6 checks out on my own.

 

Sorry, guess I'm not gone yet, but so you understand, back in the day, we weren't so "time sensitive". If it took us 20 or 30 minutes to "get going", it was no big deal. We did it at our own pace, and that is what has me so bummed about today. With cell phones now, it's "where are you now, how about now"? We got there when we got there, and again, that's just how the world worked. Yes, you are right, in today's world, trucker #2 is a lot better, but it's just not how we worked years ago, and like tony said, we did it, responsibly, and the world kept turning.

 

Brianne...ever hear the statement ..."it's better to sit and keep your mouth shut and let folks think you're a fool than it is to start trying to argue and remove all doubt" ...just saying...All of us here on TTR are rookies , newbies.....Once you start a career in trucking the learning never stops....ever...whether that career spans 6 months or 60 years....you said that your self....your arrogance doesn't fit you well...it actually puts folks off....we all know that technology is a great and wonderful thing....on that we all agree....it's you that refuses to recognize that the job was done and can continue to be done just as efficiently and just as safely ( maybe even safer) without it. You don't have the background ...or the experience to argue that it doesn't.....We are all friends here ( or try to be ) but to have an in-experienced and very arrogant in-experienced person come try to tell us we're all wrong and you "know" better...well it's not right. I'll refer back to my analogy to begin with......

 

yes a cb is a very useful tool. any driver that fails to utilize any and all tools at their disposal...imho...is a ###### fool. that gps, or google maps doesn't always work. cant always see where you need to be of atlas either. so a call for local directions is needed sometimes to find a shipper/ cosignee. as to the so called "professionals" (gotta laugh every time I hear someone refer to themselves as a professional), ive been out here along time and I ###### sure aint no "professional". im a merchandise relocation specialist (fancy ### name huh), and I listen to advice from other drivers, will watch a driver doing something to see if I might learn something new. a "professional" refers to someone who knows it all, cant learn nothing else and generally is ####y. you start thinking you know it all, aren't afraid of that death machine your driving bc you can handle anything....get out of the seat and turn keys in. you are going to kill someone. karma will bite you in the ### and hard in a big truck!!

 

agree with that entire post...except your definition of professioanal....to me that means carrying your self with respect...and treating others with that same respect...even if you don't agree.....the best way I can define that is ....when you see a trucker in traffic get cut-off and he doesn't go crazy and start blowing his horn , beating the steering wheel and even start to tailgate the offending person...that's the pro...he handles the situation with some sense and let's it roll off his back and continues on safely....on the other hand...well you know what I mean I'm sure.

 

Hey X-Country, I know you'll like this, ,,A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that, is the beginning of a new argument

 

I don't know about the other old school drivers here but when I take the dispatch I don't have to waste even 10 minutes planning my trip.
I have been there done that enough that I know the route the stops the roads and my truck well enough that it is second nature to me by now .

The one thing I might check out before I take off is the weather channel app on my phone to see if a blizzard or hurricane is coming in .
I will admit that being old school it does take me a minute to stretch out the kinks from 33 three years of driving.
If I am up at 5:30 I promise you I will be rolling in less than 20 minutes from eyes open to gears shifting.

If you last long enough in this job you will learn that you don't have to waste as much time doing the job as a new person that has not been there done that has to .
Trip planning is not something that takes a second if I am in Atlanta and I have to go to Denver or any other example you want to give.

So I guess it would look something like this here.....

Trucker 1 - Old school
Starts his day at 5:30am
Gets up starts his truck .
Goes in gets his coffee.
Comes back out does a walk around sipping the coffee.
Gets in his truck pulls out hits the road by 5:50.
Knows what roads to take where the fuel stop in and where he will be sleeping tonight .
Because he has been from point A to point B before.


Trucker 2 - New techie
Starts his day at 5:30 am
Gets out of bed checks his Qualcomm and his Facebook answers his text messages.
Puts his info in the GPS gets out and does his school taught 30 min. pretrip.
Takes off out the truck stop and turns left because the GPS said to 30 minutes later gets turned around and head the way he was supposed to go to start with.

I am no super genius here but I can do basic math and I know how to get from point A to point B without wasting 30 minutes a day trying to figure it out .

I for one love tech gadgets but I don't count on any of them to tell me how to do my job .
That is what I am being paid to know how to do .

 

Yes you bought the wrong atlas. That is just there general atlas.

You need to get the Motor Carriers version to get the extra information useful to truck drivers. No wonder you cannot find low bridge information in it.

 

Haven't had a cb since December, and really haven't missed it.