Do I need a Cb?

Not missing much ... but missing a lot of trucker bs .... less and less cb talk now days though , few have them now.

 

Hey baby want a date? Hababy wanna commercial? Hay bah-uh down hill from there.

If you knew enough about a idiot to insult same over the radio you just bought and end up getting jeered and trash talked as entertaimnent for 200 miles... You sure got them entertained. No matter what there is always someone up with a radio. It is not going to be much but there is.

(A explaination) there was a number of times in the NE between villages on the interstate where if you were able to repeat the problem on 9 along with 19) as well as Bridge three) you MIGHT actually catch someone on patrol long enough and sit to decide what to do with you.

I once had a car fire in NE CT, no cell, no internet no nothing in those days except a boy (To me... hes a hero) patrolling in a fire chief vehicle doing a little bit of driving about the villages to see if anyone needed fire services.

Because this one heard me on my cheap 10 dollar radio (You wont believe it) a few miles away that person was able to call his daddy then eventually mobilized three firehalls to respond to the burning car, which by now has quietly consumed all of it's wiring harness and is working on the fuel lines, battery etc.

 

Better to have it and not need it......

 

I only have mine on the truck during the winter months. Otherwise the thing is useless

 

Yes, there’s a lot of garbage and a lot of dead air out there now. Does that mean you shouldn’t have one? Absolutely not. As @Trucking in Tennessee said, better to have it and not need it than need it and not have one.

 

Do you need it? No you don't need it but..... when you find out about that flat on the inside dual the hard way, or roll up on them chicken coops with no lights on the rear of your trailer, you can start wishing you could have heard one of us trying to give you a heads up. Yea there's a lot of BS out there, lot of good hands still out here too.

 

It's only usefull if you leave it on. If you wait untill something happens, and then turn it on just to ask "what's going on", then its too late.

Leave it on or don't bother getting one.

 

Better to not have it and then need it to not have it than to wish you could've had it when you need it..

 

I never leave home without it. I feel naked without it. If it needs fixing, I put in my back up one(which I carry) and get my main one fixed ASAP at my local shop.

Edit;
I don’t hang out at truckstops to here all the trash talk like said above, and sometimes locals with there big base radio stations are around talking smack...... there is an “OFF” knob on the radio. Get the picture?