CB, a dying truck driver tool, what y'all think??

There you have it: CB radio is still vital. What did drivers do before CB was created? Look for the nearest payphone? Flag another driver down? Send up warning flares? Come on!

In fact, back in the early 1950s there was a movement within the trucking industry to establish a two-way radio service. It took some lobbying and the required government approval, but Citizen's Band filled the bill almost by chance, it turned out.

As a matter of fact, the 1957 pilot film entitled "Anything for Money" broadcast prior to the subsequent TV series "77 Sunset Strip" involved truck drivers communicating with each other by radio and assisting the police in capturing a criminal. This was the year before CB was authorized in the U.S.A. on the 27 MHz band.

Okay, so daytime skip noise on some channels is annoying. Simply turn up your squelch until it is blocked out, or find a quieter one. Anyone transmitting on the road or a base station nearby will break through to make you aware of any emergencies, relay info, and so on.

By the way, because the current solar cycle is beginning to wind down, the skip noise will become less of a problem. As for troublemakers playing music or making obnoxious noises and comments--ignore them and they will vanish. All they want is an audience, so don't give it to them.

Happy trails!

 

Correction to my previous post regarding the 77 Sunset Strip episode where truckers assist in tracking a criminal by using two-way radio communications.

The actual episode in question is entitled "Girl on the Run" which was first broadcast on October 10, 1958. The plot involves two fictitious Tacoma, Washington trucking companies "Republic Van Lines", and "Tacoma Rapid Delivery Service" whose drivers are strategically parked along specific streets in order to assist in identifying the criminal's vehicle until it is finally brought to a stop.

"Citizen's Band" is never mentioned in the story, therefore the radio system utilized in the story is presumably company-exclusive.

 

Out in the country it's nice to warn and be warned about deer in the road, cows in the road, farmers with wide equipment in the road, broke down vehicles with no shoulder to pull off on, bears hiding along the road, etc. Out here there isn't much clutter, usually it's somebody with something pertinent to say.

 

Why the CB radio is entrenched in trucking culture:

http://www.trucknews.com/mobile-and...is-entrenched-in-trucking-culture/1001804491/

 

I need to figure out just the right frequencies to control minds with, then get out to HAARP, reconfigure it, and use it to subconsciously make everyone go nuts over CBs again.

Modern times just suck. There, I said it. Modern times suck and I should have been born 20-30 years before I was.

 

Then you'd probably be dead now.......or at least a zombie.........

 

Well if you choose not to take advantage of every tool available to you, so be it! And when you run into that herd of Elk just around the corner or broke down 4 wheeler sitting there in the fog with people standing around it, don't say I didn't try to warn you!

I think forestry utilizes CB's the most in our area. Nothing like meeting a loaded mule train on a 15% grade in the middle of a corner unannounced. I will always have a working cb!

 

I'm not quite sure a CB is a needed tool, but mine has been in every truck I have driven for every bit of the 35 years I've been driving. It's kind of like my tire thumper or my gloves I fuel with, sometime during the course of my day I'll need all 3.

Last month was a classic example of being informed via a CB. It was 3am on 40 at the 103mm in Oklahoma, freezing rain, Ice and snow. As usual, my CB was on, I heard about a stretch of ice covered roads and an accident a few miles in front of me. I started slowing down, crested a hill and at the top of the hill was a state trooper on the shoulder with his lights on warning everyone about a stoppage in front of us. Out of nowhere comes super trucker, left lane, too fast for conditions. hits his brakes, jackknifes in front of me and totally wipes out his truck, 100 feet of guardrail and kills a light pole. I'm convinced if he had a CB and was monitoring it in the conditions we were in, this would have been avoided.

I told my wife that when the day comes to put me in the ground, I want my CB in the box with me.

 

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *mumbling* shhhhhhhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, barely legiable audio shhhhhhhhhhhhhl. it's old dated technology the audio is horrible and makes AM radio sound high fidelity. Plus all I have heard on the CB is jaw flapping from bored people arguing to kill time. Although some of it is funny, with, streaming services, satellite radio, etc. there's other ways to amuse yourself. I will only have a CB if the company provides it and I won't ever have it turned on personally.

 

You didn't read post#98 did you.
if for that reason alone it's worth having one