CB Slang-How many

Here are some police "10" codes I modified for truckers

10-1 Can't hear ya
10-2 Hear ya clear
10-3 stop talking
10-4 OK
10-6 Out of the truck
10-7 Going Home
10-8 Ready to roll
10-9 Repeat last
10-10 Negative
10-12 On the way
10-13 Need the biggest mofo on the lot with a tire thumper to help me get rid of the Male Lot Lizard!
10-20 Where you at?
10-21 Gimme a call on the cell
10-22 Disregard
10-23 Out with a shipper
10-100 Pee break
10-200 Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl!

 

10-200 Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl!
Or taking the kids to the pool.....

 

Or taking the Jeffersons to the lake! LOL

I do have one question though, what does it mean when a driver calls another driver "Hand" on the radio?

 

Yrs ago farms had hired Hands,( Now we're STEEL Cowboys).

 

Police 10-codes were developed long before CB's were even thought of, and were designed to keep "undesirables" from listening in and using the information to their advantage against the police (limited success, of course, as the codes were soon deciphered). Still, using the codes was often quicker than verbalizing what you wanted to say. Many police and other government departments modified the codes to suit their local requirements and uses, and that is still true today. For instance, 10-97 is often used to mean "on the way" while "10-12" can mean "I have a civilian passenger" or "I'm transporting a perp!" 10-98 is often used to say "I have arrived at destination." Codes like 10-4 or 10-20 have remained pretty much universal in meaning. {Note to prospective hams. Hams don't use 10-codes, but they do use "Q" signals or codes where appropriate! You will be looked upon unfavorably for the use of 10-codes on ham radio. Ham radio is not CB radio!}

Government used 10-code definition depends on where you are and what agency you are listening to at any given time. Current CB slang is much the same as 35 years ago, much of it adopted from the old 10-codes, and evolving and changing with the times and locale. While stopping at a "pickle park" might be okay in some parts of the country (reference to available picknic tables), you would be considered gay and looking for a "pickle" in others (not that there's anything WRONG with that! Uh... Right!) Not understanding a new term or code doesn't mean you're somehow inferior... it just means you're about to learn a new one, and there are lots of other listeners who haven't heard it before either. Drivers used to make up terms as we drove and have others guess at their meaning, just to pass the time. Some of those caught on and are still in use today (such as Ho-Jo for Howard Johnsons, etc.)

Some little known facts about CB: It was used during WW2 as a military comunications band. Virtually every front line aircraft or moving vehicle that needed a radio had one that covered what we call the CB band today. It was (and is) HF, or High Frequency radio. VHF was in it's infancy, very expensive, unreliable, and was generally line-of-sight only. In the movies "Memphis Belle", "12-O'Clock High", and others, an old HF radio (todays CB) can be seen at a B-17 bomber's radio operator's console (it's the aluminum box with a large dial on the front and a small frequency display window at the top).

After the war, the HF (CB) band was mostly abandoned by the military in favor of more interference free VHF and UHF radio (by then perfected and improved), and HF became more used in police and local government networks. Remember those 102" whips on police cars in the 50's? Oh, ...no ... I guess you kids wouldn't, but just look at the back of the patrol cars in the old "Andy Griffith" TV show (I know you should have seen that in perpetual re-run somewhere). Some old-timers here will remember the show "Highway Patrol" with Broderick Crawford.

In the early 60's, CB became "business radio" and had only 6 channels (almost all law enforcement went to part of the VHF bands). That's when I used my first license, KMN5122, used for deliveries from the boss's business. Eventually CB expanded to 23 channels (you still see some of these old rigs) and then to 40 channels in the 70's (anything above or below these 40 channels is still technically not CB, and are often assigned government or military frequencies). My business use license had expired, and I obtained my own license, KAGO5085 (still legal to use today, though not needed). I was well known in the old Bluff City Tennessee club (Memphis) as BCT-200, or "Barnstormer". Those were great times to be involved in CB as a hobby. It is not at all the same today as it was then.

 

Just a note on those "out-of-band" frequencies beyond the legal 40-channels. Although there are frequencies above and below the 40 that may be assigned to government or military agencies, you will likely never hear them, as they are mostly data channels. Even if there are "voice" communications frequencies there, those agencies are forbidden by law to communicate with illegal operators in any way. They can't and won't warn you! They will however record as much information as they can of your "interference" with their frequency. Granted, it is unlikely you will ever hear anything come of it, but if you and others are a nuisance often enough, it will become a higher priority and the subject of an investigation. Don't think the technology or manpower is not there to catch you, as some uniformed souls have learned the hard way at the cost of confiscation of equipment and high fines (just so you know). All it takes is one government employee at a console with access to satelite and local communications networks, and a pretty simple and efficient computer program. Rolling on the highway is no protection!

Another note! Most channels reachable by modified CB's above the normal 40 are located between the legal CB channels and the 10 meter ham band, so when operating illegally on these upper between-band frequencies (27.415 - 27.995 MHz), you are NOT talking to hams unless they too are illegal! It is NOT ham radio, even though you often hear it refered to as such! The lower between-band frequencies (below CB) are far removed from any reachable ham radio band, and are mostly government and military frequencies.

 

Did I over look it or did nobody say "brake check"?

Brake check: Traffic jam ahead

 

Has anyone heard the song Truckers CB Dictionary by Red Simpson? There are alot of good ones in it.

 

Let me see what I can remember.

Schneider eggs: Orange cones or barrels
Pumpkin Driver: Schneider driver
K-Whopper: Kenworth truck
Freightshaker: Freightliner truck
Shakey town: LA
SHakey: California
Mistake on the lake: Cleveland
Pregnant rollerskate: VW bug
Rubber, or dirty, side up: upside down 4-wheeler
Skateboard: Flatbed
CHicken hauler: reefer
Bed bugger: Movers
Belly bumper: grain hauler that unloads from the bottom
Bear, baby bear, momma bear, polar bear, brown bear: Police
Bear in a plain brown, or white, wrapper: Unmarked police car
Bear shooting at you, or Kojak W/ Kodak: police w/ radar
Bear in the air, fly in the sky, or spy in the sky: police chopper or plane
If it is winking at you, then it has radar
Gator: left over blown tire
Yardstick: mile marker
Go-go girls: pigs that are being hauled
PArking lot: car hauler
Chicken coop: weigh station
Green backs: money
Rambo: person talking crap on the CB, but not giving out their name.
Meat wagon: ambulance
Organ doner: person riding a motorcycle


I know more, but they just aren't coming to me.

 

Just checkin' the mail!!