CB Radio Etiquette to notify a driver he / she has a flat?

Just call them on the radio and tell them they have a flat. if they don't respond, then it is on them and call the cops so someone doesn't get killed.

 

Most drivers dont have a cb radio anymore.. good on u for calling it out ! We need more of that out here.

 

Years ago I was dragging my lines and nobody said sheet. Spring broke. TELL SOMEONE! Not just the CB but blow your horn next to them. It’s time we look out for each other again. You know act like human beings.

 

Tbh I haven't had a CB radio in the truck since 2015. Some days I'm able to catch up in order to warn a trucker of a potential... other days I'm not so lucky. You can only do what you are able to do. Hopefully, DOT will be able to warn the driver before it gets worse

 

Seems like most trucks don't use em. Especially foreign ones. 15 yrs ago there was constant chatter. It was very entertaining. Now it's so rare.

 

I had to get a guys attention in a reefer the other day, his rear door swinging open as he left rest area, he turned cb on as I got beside him and motioned him, then he said someone must’ve opened it. Nothing about doing a walk around and seeing it wide open.

 

Few years back a middle lane zombie skateboard passed me on I-35, fly fishing on a 15 or 20 ft string with the rearmost broken strap on a plastic pipe load. I hollered at him. Guess he finally woke up because boy did he do a quick panic stop across the right lane in front of me to the shoulder. Lol.

 

I've never drove a truck without a working radio. Retired end of 2017, still had a radio. Pull my 5th wheel travel trailer with a semi, still got a CB. Not sure why sometimes but just got back off a 1600 mile round trip and communicated a couple of times.

I believe driver's would be more skilled if they had a CB. Back in the day, if you screwed up, you heard about it! When others screwed up, you heard about it. You learned from that, or most did. Now days anybody can drive a truck since they're all automatics. New drivers get very little training. And, since they don't get OJT because of no CB, they continue to make the same errors over and over again. You get scolded over the air a few times, you learn and become a better driver. Half of them these days can't stay in their own lane when they pass you! Oh, and we didn't have those big ol' pile ups back then either. You would hear about wrecks or whatever long before you got to them and have plenty of time to avoid them if you wanted to. FWIW