This is why you should have a cb in your truck !

I'm not in a truck these days, but when I do have travel for my current job, I always throw the CB in the truck. I'm not one for conversation, but I do like to let other drivers know if I see an issue with their truck/trailer, or even let people know of and speed traps. Seems like the talk falls on deaf ears now a days.

 

The only truck I can catch up to is Prime or a truck limping to a repair shop

And good job telling him about it

 

You could leave me in the dust.

 

He must have forgot to thump the steer tires on his pre-trip. I always get a chuckle when I see drivers doing that.

 

I get sick of hearing all the arguing, fighting, complaining, and cursing. However, there are things on the back and sides of my truck I can't see going down the road and would be nice to know if something's wrong. Also, info on unforseen road conditions up ahead are handy.
So, I try to keep it turned on.
A couple examples just this week:
We double tarp some loads to prevent damage to vinyl tarps. My rear canvas tarp flew out partially and probably was flying like Superman's cape, but no one told me. My CB was on, but no one said anything. No honks or waiving from anyone.
I only found out about it when I stopped for a 30. Literally 5 feet of it was draped down the back of the trailer, covering up most of my taillights when I stopped. It couldn't have been that way long, because I had passed a trooper not too far back.
Oh well.
And then yesterday I-44 was shut down in Missouri on my way home. Of course that brings a lot of chatter. That sort of chatter can help you find a way around closed roads that might be better than the official detour that's also backed up due to congestion on roads never meant for that much traffic.
Over 2 hours from home, and 3 left to get there, I avoided sitting in a backup that would have eaten up my remaining hours.
Thanks to my radio being on, I had a nice chat with an O/O behind me while hitting the back roads. Nice guy. Very encouraging. Gave me a little hope for the trucking world. We need more of that and less "eff you because you don't drive like I think you should".

 

One memory from my pre-CB-for-me days is being passed by an 18-wheeler on I-10 in Texas. As he pulled ahead of me I noticed his flatbed trailer had the two left, rear wheels just beginning to leave the axle. I watched in horror as one of the wheels slid off the axle and go bouncing to the right in front of me up a hill into the adjacent field. Shortly thereafter, the other slid off and went to the left, across the wide, grassy median, and into the oncoming line of traffic. I think it hit a glancing blow on one of the oncoming vehicles, causing the traffic to brake with red lights flashing in both lanes but fortunately no wrecks that I could see in the brief time I had to observe.

The trucker with the faulty axle probably couldn't even feel the wheels depart and kept on moving like nothing had happened. I was in a slow RV at the time and couldn't catch up to him, but I saw him a few miles up the road stopped on the side.

I always regret I didn't have a CB that day. I don't know if I had enough time to call him on 19 before the wheels came off, but at least I could have advised him of the problem so he might have been able to slow himself down and perhaps reduce the momentium of the wheels. It was eerie seeing those things leaving at 70mph with a force that could easily cause death and destruction.

I wonder how many times every day that a CB could prevent or mitigate a disaster in the making.

 

They are still a valuable tool in the tool box

 

I don't regret paying $159 for my used galaxy 949 with a super tune