If you don't run with a CB on......

I have to agree about the radio and the stupidity thats on there, but mine is on and squelched so i dont hear all the noise, i do want to know about bears, slow downs, wrecks, lane blockages, and other imprtant things on the road, i dont want to hear burping, belching, or someone being super trucker running his mouth and not backing it up. or the dreaded i dont have any panties on by some perveted super trucker. it just goes to show that driving schools dont teach courtesy, or proper anything on the road, just drive it act like an idiot and get it there on time.

 

Well I do have mine on sometimes but not all the time, mainly because of all the fighting.. I did have it on the other day, when a driver informed me that one of my product hoses was dragging on the ground behind my tanker. It was because the latch that holds the door shut had come off and the hose was slowly falling out the back end.. It ended up being damaged, and had to get a new one once I got back to the yard..

 

that is not necessarily true. the school i went to spent part of a day going over courtesy and driver ettiquite (sp?)
NOT TO MENTION THE SIMPLE FACT THAT IT IS COMMON SENSE NOT TO ACT THAT #### WAY!!!!
IT'S LIKE ALL THE WRITING ON THE BATHROOM WALLS. YOU WOULD THINK ALOT OF THESE DRIVERS OUT THERE WERE IN FREAKIN MIDDLE SCHOOL STILL

 

I found the perfect response for the moron whispering "I ain't got no panties on." I usually reply with- "Yanno driver, if you would take a BATH once in a while, your panties wouldn't get up and run away without you!" This generally produces a bunch of laughter from other drivers and the pervert gets quiet. LOL
Being female, I wish that was the only bad thing I heard on the stupid cb. After a while I just get tired of listening to the crap. My personal fav is the slob who sees its a female driving and then proceeds to make gross sexual comments, usually involving the size of his "stuff". My usual reply is "Oh so sorry, I dont have time and I dont have my magnifying glass and tweezers with me!".

 

My 2 cents (and bring back the change)

I hardly ever turn my CB on when on the interstate, only when needed, and then most of the time only to listen. On the U.S. and state roads I will turn it on.

In this day of Qualcom, mobile phones, and call boxes every mile (in some cases) I don't ask anyone if they need help. I am not stopping anyway, I have my own responsibilities to take care of first, and stopping to help is not one of them.

I have stopped before, and it was because the person needing help called out for it. I happened to be carrying some water, and the other person needed some, and that was helpful to that driver. Had he needed repairs, I would not have been able to help, other than to haul him to the nearest phone.

For those that want to romanticize the past when all drivers stopped to help other drivers, where nothing but professionalism and courtesy was the rule, diesel was free and there were no bears, wake up. It never was that way and never will be.

Oh sure, there was more courtesy "way back then", and more drivers did stop to help, blah blah blah. Usually it was local or regional drivers that did the stopping because they knew the other driver, and the CB need a license "way back then" to be operated, so there were fewer people on the air.

Remember the hand signals? Try giving a "no bears ahead" hand signal to that driver headed the other way now, if they even notice you, they wont know what to make of it anyway.

Heehee, but that is going waaaaayy back, huh? I was 14 when I first grabbed a shifter, in 1976. Learned from the "old timers" too.

Hey, time to start a "remember when" thread.

 

I tend to agree with my trainer. As a demonstration, he turned the squawk box on one day. The radio was completely full of crap. We turned it on for a backup in IL (flooded bridge on I-57) and at a couple of stops. Even at the backup, the only valid information that was passed while we were there was that it was at MM198.

No possibility of an altroute, darnit. But that's what the trucker's GPS systems are best used for, I think. (yes, hear my experience and heed me!)

I certainly don't need it to tell me there's a brake check ahead - that's what brake lights are for

So far, I've never needed to attend anything while driving away from anywhere. I *always* do a walk around as the last thing before I climb into the cab. (got that drilled into me at school. makes sense. I'm keeping it) Doubt anybody else in the parking lot is going to see anything he needs to tell me about - or, rather, that I need to hear about.

Yeah, I could be wrong. Somehow, though, I think it unlikely.

 

The CB, or panties? Wait, don't answer that...

 

I can tell by your post you've never ran cows before.That early warning on a brake check can be a God send sometimes and keep you from mashing noses against the front of your wagon.I've ALWAYS thanked anyone who warned me about anything that helped me out in any way shape, form or fashion,.We can beat this back and forth and I doubt it'll change either sides mind.I keep a GOOD radio on all the time and I would feel lost without it.If you feel good running without one,so mote it be.