Thanks Google

We don't even run CB anymore, I use VHF/UHF radios for communication with my pilot cars and state police escorts. I even have the Missouri and Georgia car to car frequencies programmed into my mobile so I no longer have to give them a handheld. I keep the CB in the truck "just in case" but otherwise only my lead pilot runs one for 2 lane roads to inform trucks coming at us that I'm 20' wide however with that being said maybe 1 out of 100 even have a radio on or respond so that's about useless as well (even other OD loads coming the other way).

So instead of spending a small fortune on a CB, then having to pay someone to "tune" it only to talk to dead air most of the time most of us have chosen to spend $100 on a VHF/UHF dual band FM radio, $40 on a good Tram antenna and $120 on 4 handhelds ($30 each) to hand out to pilots/escorts/police and they actually work without having to pay a radio technician to "tune" everything.

As for routing, well 99% of the time the states tell me what highway I have to be on so the only benefit of knowing about a backup is knowing we're going to be sitting in it.

I do run Google with traffic turned on at all times (Google also uses information from Waze) just to know what we have coming up. The in dash GPS from Kenworth is powered by Garmin and even with the latest $100 update is still does not recognize there's an 840 around Nashville yet it shows parts of I-69 and I-22 that aren't even completed yet. So with Garmin's obvious lack of decent up-to-date maps I find it pretty much useless. Even my 3 year old Rand McNally Atlas has 840 shown but Garmin still shows me driving off road most of the way from 40 to 65.