This is why you should have a cb in your truck !

MACK E-6 · Aug 29, 2016

Meteorgray said: ↑

One memory from my pre-CB-for-me days is being passed by an 18-wheeler on I-10 in Texas. As he pulled ahead of me I noticed his flatbed trailer had the two left, rear wheels just beginning to leave the axle. I watched in horror as one of the wheels slid off the axle and go bouncing to the right in front of me up a hill into the adjacent field. Shortly thereafter, the other slid off and went to the left, across the wide, grassy median, and into the oncoming line of traffic. I think it hit a glancing blow on one of the oncoming vehicles, causing the traffic to brake with red lights flashing in both lanes but fortunately no wrecks that I could see in the brief time I had to observe.

The trucker with the faulty axle probably couldn't even feel the wheels depart and kept on moving like nothing had happened. I was in a slow RV at the time and couldn't catch up to him, but I saw him a few miles up the road stopped on the side.

I always regret I didn't have a CB that day. I don't know if I had enough time to call him on 19 before the wheels came off, but at least I could have advised him of the problem so he might have been able to slow himself down and perhaps reduce the momentium of the wheels. It was eerie seeing those things leaving at 70mph with a force that could easily cause death and destruction.

I wonder how many times every day that a CB could prevent or mitigate a disaster in the making.
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One of my co-workers always leaves his passenger side hood latch undone. Having two engine fires God only knows how long ago did that to him.

Your situation would be enough to make me put a CB in my pickup truck, and every other vehicle I would own after that.

Guvhog · Sep 1, 2016

MACK E-6 said: ↑

One of my co-workers always leaves his passenger side hood latch undone. Having two engine fires God only knows how long ago did that to him.

Your situation would be enough to make me put a CB in my pickup truck, and every other vehicle I would own after that.
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You're right about that. The better half and I were on our way back to Arkansas from East Tennessee and were nearing the Mississippi River Bridge on I-40 when a driver keyed up on the CB and said that a big truck had overturned ahead in Arkansas blocking both West bound lanes. He said the traffic would be dead stopped for at least 3 hours so taking an alternate route to West Memphis was highly recommended. I took the Riverside Drive exit, hung a left then went down and crossed over the old I-55 bridge. I never slowed down and was sure glad I had my Cobra 29 with me.

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