Status of CB radio usage these days

Here in eastern wyoming and western nebraska it's pretty much silent unless you say hello to someone you know personally or give a heads up to other drivers about dot setting up portable stations or troopers on the road. Almost all ag and cattle trucks around here do have their CBs on though.

 

I can't speak for everyone, but I hear folk on the radio every day during my commute to and from work.

 

Not as many in the Dallas area as there use to be, but when skip starts rolling in, it's a whole new ball game...

When skips rolling, it's just like stepping back in time to the 70's the channels are so crowded...Just have to be on the radio at the right time...

 

Out west CB 19 talk is really rare, central and east it's still used a lot

 

When skip starts rolling my phone starts ringing.

 

Wrong channel for California.
Channel 15 from Castaic scales to route 46 then channel 17 north of route 46 to the canadian border.
Channel 19 is only east west traffic.

 

I keep it on 19, they can have the rest

 

Hard to get north south info on 19 on west coast

 

Ontario ca the guys coming down I-15 are running channel 17 and the guys running east west on 10 are on channel 19