Is a CB Radio really necessary to have?

We had a CB back in the 70's. Lived in AR and people in the sticks used them all the time, we also had a base station; it was cheaper than paying long distance phone charges.

There is nothing like listening to someone on the CB playing harmonica at 3am in the morning. Husband was not a trucker then, we just made trips back to IN to visit grandma with our son whenever we could.

Moved back to Gary, IN area in 78. The radio could not be kept on with a 3yr old in the car then, there was too much cussing, fighting, and trash talk, so it went off.

CB's are a tool that some shippers still use if you want to be called to a dock. Yes it is a pain having to listen to the thing when you want to sleep, but that is the way it goes.

A lot more wrecks are caused by secondary wrecks, before the cops even show up. If everyone had their radio on, it sure does help like many have stated, to warn you of a situation.

Husband had his radio on last night, someone warned another driver that his underneath storage door was cracked open on the truck.

Now if only truckers would learn to use it and quit getting in so many fights and feuds.

 

Ummm, 'scue me. I have to go now. The tin can with the string to my next door neighbor's house is rattling. I have to go take a call.

 

Why no of course not. What you think I am, back woods or something. They ran the string right into the kitchen thank you very much.

 

You gentlemen are showing your age...... Ha ha ha.

 

Round these parts that means someone ran out of toilet paper!

 

I'm a driver. What'da ya think I am? A grown up or something. LOL.

That's one of the things I love about this, we get to have a lot of fun picking on each other.

 

That's why I love this site and most of the people on it. We can rib and it's all in good fun!

 

Sorry. Fresh out. That's why the Sears catalog is in there.

 

According to your profile you have less than a year, take it from someone who started when women were not a common sight in the business outside of the offices. We carved a path for others like you to follow, not by having a chip on our shoulders but by doing the work required and learning on the go. You dont get respect unless you earn it. Today you have it so much easier than in the past. Want to know what it was like back in the day well I just happen to have a 1965 KW that would teach you alot in a short time. No power steering, no air conditioning, a sleeper you have to crawl through the back window to get into, a 5x4 set of gearboxes with a planetary aux. yup it is a tri stick so to speak. Women like us knocked that chip off years ago, you have alot to learn young lady.