Are CB radios still worth it?

A CB radio is in the same category as horse power and condoms. It’s better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

 

I use it several times a week to load most weeks.

 

But, do those apps tell you your dragging a chain? Have a blown inside tire? Or numerous other things a following or passing driver can see and warn you about?
Or better yet, let you know there is an accident or something blocking the road just over that hill?

 

No different than most freight haulers can’t make out chicken haulers or tanker yanker lingo.

 

$105 a month????
I use Straight Talk for $45 a month.
Get the same stuff. It’s nothing but Verizon.

 

Where I drive if a truck is stopped we stop unless they tell us not to on the radio, or they step out and give us the thumbs up sign.
We slow down to 25 or so when we meet one to keep from busting out windshields and headlights too.
On my last trip I had 60,000 payload on a chassis, and was pulling a long grade 8% or better, when I came up on a tourist parked in the road, it turned it's flashers on, and then turned them off and flashed their headlights, I stopped, at which point they took off. They had just stopped so that I would not rock them, never mind I was already in low range, at about 16 mph.
Why do they call it tourist season if you can't hunt them and have them mounted for the trophy room. lol

 

How about talking to the salt shakers, asking for permission to pass ( polite way of saying these here pigs are coming thru). And we both inch over a little. Or asking them about road conditions up on the mountain. Indispensable information I'd be scared $###less to be without.

 

I thought you were not supposed to be playing with your phone while driving???
Asking for a friend.