The most important item your not taught in training

As long as they are 2 states away.

 

You just pointed out a problem with in a problem... I agree

 

You can scan all you want, at night it's not easy to see an object thats inches off the ground. Even when your just going the speed limmit or even 5 under. I pull 117k nowdays and I have to plan my stops a mile in advance. There's no substitute for a heads up if there's something in the road. Use your CB drivers it can keep your a $ss out of a crack.

 

This is true, but an object a few inches off the pavement and otherwise is small should not be something like a tire or a ladder in the road. This is how you look at it. I'm not going to repost my personal objections to my CB radio use. It is just my not using a CB did not make me any less safe.

 

Your wrong, but you are more then entitled to your opinion.

 

As you are yours too. Again you bring up objects so small you can't see them by looking. My point was an object that small should not become a serious obstacle like a tire or ladder you can see. Listen like I said it is nice to know about not only safety related things but it is also nice to know about law enforcement activity or things like the scale houses on I-20 in Texas being open. It just what you have to put up with is for me simply not worth it.

 

Fair enough. I just like to know if there is deer in the road coming up for an example. I also had a situation driving through Alpine Idaho. There was an avalanche that was covering the road ahead of me. I got a nice warning over the radio. It's just something I have always used as a tool for safely warning drivers of hazards. Yes drivers can be immature sometimes but that's why you have a on/off switch.

 

I guess you can consider me old school, but I'm not so old that I'm set in my ways, but open minded enough to accept todays technology. As a local driver, I personally had no need for a CB, but that's probally because I'm paid hourly and know my area. Back when I started off in the early 90's, a CB was a must. It had it's benefits back then, and I do agree with one of the comments that was made about brotherhood. Back then, truckers communicated with each other, letting other truckers know where the smokies were hiding, if the coops were open, if trailer lights were out, if objects or gators were in the road, being an extra eye for someone backing up, and communicating with dispatch or shipper/receivers, but for all the good CB's had, all the bickering and jibber jabber nonsense that went on the air had my CB off most of the time. Nowadays, I still have my CB that I haven't used in over 20 years, collecting dust in my closet, with all the cassette tapes and VHS tapes that were once considered the "it" thing at the time.

As someone who once said "Old school, new school, no school, rules". Some of you old heads will know who quoted this.