CB Radio vs Waze

Timin770 said: ↑

Waze is a great resource to get warnings of hazards and speed traps. You get warnings of traffic, vehicles and animals on the side of the road, potholes, objects in travel lanes, etc etc. Obviously a trucker should not use it as their sole source of navigation because it will happily take you under a low bridge, etc.

Back in the 70's you couldn't get a word in edgewise on the CB. Truckers would help each other. Of course we also had the guys who would transmit nonsense but that's sorta like real life, eh? It's really sad now that all you hear are guys complaining about another guy who cost them maybe an extra 30 seconds getting out of the truck stop. I can drive all day now and hardly hear a peep from the CB.

Having said that, I hate driving without a CB on board. I find that when the SHTF a lot of guys will still speak up with useful info.

My advice: Run Waze but install a quality CB and leave it on all the time with the squelch turned up so that you are not bombarded with distant transmissions. CB could be considered old school but it just might save your life some day. Also, like others have said in this thread, I've been to a number of places that use the CB to move trucks on/off the docks
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Solo Cup in Federalsburg uses channel 1. It save me an extra trip inside the building.

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