The most important item your not taught in training

I just laugh at it, life's to short!

 

@Exrayman4000 I totally agree with what you are saying. Echo mics also drive me nuts but for the next few miles I turn it down or turn the squelch up. Hell, my beacons for some reason mess with the CB unless I turn the squelch up but since it is not my truck I don't bother fixing it. It has been that way since new in 07. The idiots that sit there and make queer animal noises also annoy me. Normally this stuff happens around larger towns and truck stops. I guess they are bored.

 

I hear you. My last 2 years I did not run a CB. I honestly don't remember many situations where I regretted it. The biggest amount of the time there was no easy bypass around a backup anyway so knowing about it really was no solution. Anyway peace!

 

trainers w/out experience training more drivers!!!

this is the point we should be harping on... if a company let you become a trainer at 6 month that is crazy IMHO...

 

Just one point about objects in the road. As a professional driver you should be alert for traffic ahead and through scanning your mirrors the traffic behind you. You should be scanning the road ahead day and night. At night you should never drive faster then your headlights light the pavement ahead and your ability to recognize any hazard and stop.

 

I wouldn't have hit the wheel I posted about, but it was nice to have someone looking out for me anyway!

 

Once again, just like having a GPS, a CB is just another tool of the trade. When I was OTR I always had a CB, because of the number of shippers/receivers that used it for contact.
I got into CB back in the '60's, long before I got into trucking. And back then, it was a fun hobby. But of course things change.
I haven't had a CB on, (I have two of them, both taking up shelf space...) since 2004 when I left OTR. The years doing local LTL never had one, nor needed one.
The sad thing about the CB going to hell, is the folks who took it there. Not always, but USUALLY other drivers trying to be annoying. (To put it nicely.) Then there were the other idiots with their huge illegal powered transceivers that would boom out their garbage for hundreds of miles, and cover many channels.
Now I'm no prude, hell, I can cuss with the best of them, and most likely better than most of them. But I don't need to listen to all the BS, the threats, the slurs, (racial and/or other,) and certainly politics. I only had my CB on when I needed it. I found out early on, when I got back into trucking, that asking for serious information on the CB, was a total waste of time. Sure, there were a few helpful drivers out there. But for every helpful one, there was a whole wagon load of jackarses that were determined to screw with you.
For the most part, the CB stayed off. Doesn't mean I think other people should agree with me, I really don't give a rip. That is just the way I feel about it.