Exactly, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. Its a shame that MOST of the time, people do the WRONG thing. Either out of ignorance or just plain being jackwads. Then those people wonder why they end up in the ditch. I can say this though from experience. I have tried to contact O/S on the cb to let them know, and never got a response, so I just went around. I dont understand why O/S dont have their radios on.
I've found most of them do to communicate with their pilots. I would imagine some of them may be on a channel other than 19 tho. Unless they're communicating another way, say 2 way. I think it would be a good idea to be on the radio and on 19 to be able to communicate in this manner with other trucks or at least for other trucks to be able to listen in and have an idea what they may be doing up ahead. But with all the BS on 19 sometimes (losers pushing 5000 watts blasting their music and telling the world they don't have any panties on) interfering with their ability to communicate with the pilots( Most important communication), I can see why they would go to another channel or even 2 way. Perhaps a universal channel for OD/OS would be good but then how long before the BS spreads there as well. Very seldom do I go unanswered on 19 when I give them a heads up I'm coming around tho and it's usually always a simple thank you for the heads up.
It'd be great if they took a more in depth Elog class at the megas. I've seen these goof balls racing around parking lots wondering what the hey. The few that have a CB say they're out of hours. It's like they don't know the small tips and trips to creep on off duty. Or at least think about shutting down before they have three minutes left...
Well if you see us with a pilot car or two we are mostly on another channel. Main reason so we can hear each other,if running a high pole we need to know if they cleared the over pass or not. Me I run two radios. One on 19 and have it on low volume. The other on the channel I'm using with my pilot car. Or if running with another one of our guys...
Just like Passingthru69, if you come upon me with my pilots we are not on 19, we don't need to hear from the driver in the dry van and all the oversize loads he's hauled or the jackwad who forgot his panties again. Most of my regular lead pilots run two radio's, one on our channel and the other on 19. In the case of my lead car not having two then I run a second but not trying to be an arse, I'm not going to visit about the load or anything else. If you want to visit we will tell you where we're stopping for the night and would be happy to visit at that time. Same for the guys that hunt us down on the off channel and start a conversation, don't take it the wrong way but when Saddlesore, myself and most other specialty drivers have an oversize on 99% of the time it's valued in the 10's of millions of dollars and casual conversation is not what we're focused on. Much the same reason for not running 19, we are responsible for our freight and the safety of every vehicle/person we encounter. If we decapitate a family because we didn't hear our pilot we have to live with that and if we damage the freight on an electric Indian then we have to live on unemployment. It's not a game, I'll sit and visit till the sun comes up but when I'm moving I'm not visiting.
One in the overhead, another in a jockey box. As for problems, that's 110% dependent on the quality of your antennas and their installation, high SWR's and your going to have terrible feedback. Tune your antenna's to as near 1.0 on a real SWR meter and keep them away from each other then you'll be fine.
Well said. Lol, my last radio broke and the second I bought another radio and turned it on after getting it all hooked up the very same jackwad keys up, "I don't have any panties on." I just shook my head. I hate driving without a cb, for those few instances their useful and fun, but most days it's just squelching out the #######.
