The most important item your not taught in training

Oh great, reading your app is the same as reading a text message WHILE driving.

 

I was once told about a wheel laying in the middle of the lane by an oncoming driver. I didn't hit it.

 

As I've already said, you can set it to give you the alerts audibly so you don't have to look at the phone while driving. I guess I see why you don't like technology, as reading comprehension is obviously a struggle for you.

 

LOL and communication seems to be your weak point. When you don't hit enter once in awhile those windbag posts you make are very hard to read. Of course #### gets overlooked. CBs are technology and you apparently do not like that. If you grow up one day, maybe you will have the maturity that can handle the antiquated technology.

See like that. Technology is not always a good thing and it does not always work. It may work back east but there are many places in the west where it will not work, even on the highway because of lack of signal. Besides that, I am not going to base my decisions on what a bunch of non truck drivers say.

Oh, hey, take this exit and turn left at the third light........... OH #### an 11' bridge!

I very rarely hear anything on the CB. Maybe about 2-4 times per month. Keep the squelch up. You don't need to hear something 30 miles away when the next mile is all you need. We also carry VHF radios in our trucks but the CB is still on.

 

If I had been a driver before the current technology existed, I'm sure I would have used a CB. I do own one. I bought it when I first started driving and every time I turned it on, all I ever heard was racist vulgarity and uninformed political rants. I took it out after about a year of never hearing anything worth while. There are simply better options out there now to get better info. If there were no other options, I'm sure I would still use it.

As far as running out west, I'm sure that would be an issue for the Waze app. It does require many drivers to keep the info updated. Maybe I would use a CB If I ran out there. But I run the same route 5 nights per week, Chattanooga to Johnson City, TN and back. The app works great for what I do and the CB does not.

 

This is an argument that has pros and cons on both sides. Otr drivers can claim a few reasons for having a cb. Top one being are the coops open or not. Local city drivers have very little use for them. I got my cdl in 1997. I've never had any use for a cb even tho most trucks I've driven them have had them. As far as it being a tool for being a safe driver, that argument holds no water

 

I think that people are confusing being a safe driver to being an alerted driver. The CB does not make you a safer driver but it does make you personally safer by alerting you about hazards ahead.

Does anyone that hates the CB really think that the CB could not have reduced the pileup in Wyoming last winter or the one up north (can't remember where)? Had drivers going the other way been able to alert the oncoming traffic it would have not been as bad as it ended up being. There is no reason at all for that many trucks to pile up in one location.

 

I also think my point is not being understood either. Its not that I don't want to know about road conditions ahead. This is not about information. It is about all the crap you have to put up with having one on. Take pingers for instance about the 3rd or 4th time someone with a pinger keys up my head will start hurting. You people that run CBs can run them all you want. However you really need to respect those of us that have got our fill of the unprofessional behavior of the majority of those that use CB.