I am not a driver yet i'm just a 22 year old ex-marine thinking of getting into the business, but my dad has been driving for 25 years and my grandpa drove a long time too. I have been riding with them for years and I mean years every summer before I started playing high school basketball would be spent on the road. I can remember when my dad would be on the radio constantly helping drivers or getting help with full growns, wrecks, scales, etc... I went to houston texas with him this past weekend and was suprised that noone would have the common courtesy to give any helpful information. For example, we were getting close to hope arkansas and my dad was asking about the scales being open and asked for 25 miles and not one trucker gave any info. Another was on the way back home, and my dad was giving information about certain things and when he would tell them about a situation such as a trooper not one person said thanks or anything else. I can remember when everyone helped each other out. I'm just wondering what happened to the golld ol' days?
What's happened to the ol' days?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by whitakerinc, Jan 5, 2009.
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Channel 19 is the one but alot of drivers don't listen to the cb. There is too much smack talk and bs on the air. I run with mine on but generally set it so only the big radios come in, it eliminates the static and a fair amount of crap. But it always seems to me that the biggest loud mouth buttheads have the biggest darn radio's
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OMG....I'm an "old" guy. Those days are pretty much gone for the most part...it's every man for themselves today.
Running across the plains and the NW you can usually find someone to talk to on a very boring night. Canada....now they'll talk to you but that takes a different kind of radio....one must be prepared if you're going to hang out across the border.
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