Why doesn't anyone talk on the radio anymore?

I've tried to have conversations on the CB. Usually it degenerates into someone putting out a contract on me or I have to defend why I'm on the road and not at home lying on my back making babies. That's when I'm not being ignored altogether. Don't assume every woman is out here for your entertainment or every Swift you see is an idiot rookie.

 

i try and talk to people on the cb but most dont have one or wont answer you

 

Wouldn't necessarily have to be on your back!

I kid I kid.

I have to agree with you. The treatment I hear on the radio, more in traffic congestion than anything, is so demeaning and vulgar, I either have XM on Fox news or I'm listening to Bluesville.

 

Intresting .... Comment on what some men think of women ....someone on 2 meters made a comment a few years back that women were too stupid to hold a HAM license my wife was within ear shot.

I looked the jurk up he had a tech class so my wife went and passed her general in 30 days. It to him more than a year to catch up ....

We have been married almost 29 years I KNOW better than to give her a challenge .....

 

I kept a CB radio for all of 2 months and got rid of it. Maybe I just attract alot of rude drivers, but I can't help it if I have a slow truck (65 mph, EVERYONE passes me.)

Then, whenever you hear chatter on the radio at a truckstop, you will feel as if your brain is instantly rotting. I've heard that way back when, the CB radio was a useful tool as far as directions, getting help, weather warnings, police warnings, misc info from other helpful drivers, and every now and then you may engage in a conversation with other cool drivers.

Nowadays, it's the exact opposite. Alot of attitudes, unhelpful drivers, and just garbage on the radio. I will refuse to purchase another radio. Got rid of a Cobra 29.

How can shippers reach me? This is the year 2010 A.D. There are these things called "cell phones". They work really well as far as communicating with important contacts at shippers and receivers. No more need for a radio in this day and age. How do I avoid the police? Driving the speed limit. How do I avoid scales? No need for that, either.

 

I just back to Missouri after a 2 week stay in Jacksonville NC....gotta say I had the CB on the whole time and it was interesting....

On the way there we got caught in a huge traffic jam on I-24 in Tennessee when a dump truck caught on fire and burned to the ground on the side of the interstate....nothing that I could do about that and there was no way to have avoided it, but at least the CB told me what was going on and gave me a chance to talk to a few people.

Yesterday coming back on US 52 in Mount Airy NC at the 115 yardstick I encountered a few bozos having a tongue lashing quarrel....so I fired up and told them "now now children lets not fight"...lol well one of them decided to fire back at me with every insult you could think of, told him I felt sorry for him that his vocabulary was limited to insults over the radio. He came back with "my mama taught me how to talk like this!" I then came back and said I felt sorry his mother that she raised such a troubled man. lol this clown starts saying "what u sayin bout mah mama? pull over on the side turn yo blinka on I'm gonna whup yo ###"....of course I called him out on being a CB rambo but told him where to find me if he really wanted to find me, what mile marker I was at, etc. and that I was a pretty tall muscular guy with a black belt in karate....of course this clown never shows but kept running his mouth saying he was going to find me and whoop my ###. BTW this clown goes by the name of "speedy gonzales" but he sounds like he's black.

Then going thru Lousiville KY on I-264 just past the I-71 junction this morning about 8:45 am, we just missed a bad auto accident by seconds...I'm talking this happened like about 1 minute before we got there.....a jeep was upside down in the northbound lane and I believe a Chrysler Sebring was in the southbound lane also upside down and there was even a center divider fence! When I got upon the accident the wheels of the Jeep were still rolling and smoke had just started pouring out of the Sebring. Right as I came upon the accident the radio all the sudden was filled non stop with reports of the accident all the way until well into Indiana on I-64. I was able to help direct some around the traffic jam/accident via the CB.

Then in St. Louis on I-255 some fool kept getting on ch 19 and talking in a high pitched disguised voice about he was out of Viagra and needed it back. It was stupid but a little funny.

Other than that the CB was a mix of dead silence at times to constant chatter during others. We even encountered some skip too.

 

Oh yeah here's the crash if anyone cares....http://www.wlky.com/news/24351074/detail.html

 

Then they see what you look like and they understand why you're not on your back makin babies--bwah, hahahahahaha... oh man, that's funny.....haha.

 

I usually turn mine down when i'm gett'n close to the big truck stops. but for the most part i keep mine on. every once in awhile there's some good folks to talk to out there.