CB Status reports.

Swift trucks have turbo's?

 

I'm full of one liner's today...

You see, the people I normally use them on are at home enjoying their families this holiday weekend. And I just didn't think it would be right to call them up & insult them.

So instead, I wrote them down & figured that I would use them one by one as I see a clueless victim on this site.

 

I appreciate the reports. I'm in a company governed truck but I have been saved a few times by CB reports.

Recently I was coming around a curb and there was a car with a broken axle dead center in the lane. Thankfully, I had been warned 1/2 a mile earlier.

Usually though, I can go hours and hear nothing on the CB.

 

Wheres the complaint if it is in fact your fault ?

 

it's your fault if you have the squelch way up....and you cannot hear a weaker radio..

personally, like someone else already said, i too do not give out reports, no one saved me from anything...

I watch what i do, how i drive, my paper work is always in order, my weights are right on, etc,etc...what do i care if the scale house is open, or there is a radar trap, or a cop driving up behind me..??

if people like to speed, or have hap-hazard paperwork, or are not up to date on their log book, i suspect it's "thier fault" they get pulled over. not mine....

 

he probably has a meter inline and is testing equiptment..

 

Trucking is a solitary job. For some that's a an obstacle and others that's one of the benefits. Years ago there were very few alternatives to listening to the CB. Everybody could be assumed to have and use a CB. That day is far in the past. Every time you hear some doofus telling his 100 mile fishing story, or his 100 mile recounting of every word he and a customer/dispatcher exchanged during an incident 3 months ago, you can better understand why you can no longer assume the trucks around you have/use a CB.

In 12 years of driving to/from the same big industrial plant, maybe 4 or 5 obviously lost truck drivers have even had their CB on. Did I mention the increase in no-English drivers, and not just the ones from Crackerland or The Hood.

Before you get mad at people for ignoring you on the CB you might ask what makes you think anyone had a CB or had one turned on? If a truck driver is lost, surrounded by other truck drivers, and he doesn't think to turn on his CB, what makes you think he's going to have it on while going down the road? I've been warned about more 20 mile backups than I have ever seen. The boss and everyone else thinks they have to ask me questions on the phone rather than call some office dweeb or check the paperwork on their own desk.

I would rather drive off a cliff while listening to interesting podcasts than listen to the CB for 8 minutes per day. There is no value in the CB anymore. I haven't put mine in my truck for years.

The real problem isn't the drivers not listening to the CB but the majority that won't read a map or highway sign, will drive into a brick wall if the GPS tells him to and then blames everyone else because he couldn't drive with distractions without getting in trouble.

Look out your window and drive like you want to stay alive, on route, out of jail. This ain't "Movin On" it's just a job.