CB install, anyone have it yet?

[SouthernSilveradoGuy85]

Sometimes you'd get a good conversation going, but the new generation of truck drivers would rather play with noise toys and be stupid than have a conversation. I passed a good many hours just having a good conversation, makes the time fly.

 

I noted the decreased use when diesel spiked in 2008...almost all trucks got governed to save fuel and there was no need to listen to the CB for bear reports since your truck wouldn't break the speed limit unless it was pushed off a cliff.

 

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Most of the ones I heard were talking trash to each other and arguing, no real conversations that I can remember.

[Colossus]

I've noticed that the OTR drivers are the ones who are pleasant vs the local drivers who tend to be rowdy and rude.

[mike5511]

 

 

I tried out trucking and all I ever heard was gossip. You think a beauty parlor full of women was bad, just listen to the CB at night. I normally kept mine off. The only reason I kept one in my '98 was in case there was traffic backed up I would ask what's going on. I don't think anybody ever answered me. Also I laugh when some people are surprised that they don't use CB lingo or handles anymore.

That's how you stay awake. Cell phones and xm radio have caused a lot of them to drift away. Still when you need one they are invaluable. I may go two three days and never key the mic, but I don't want to be without one.

[Ravenkeeper]

I love having my CB in my vehicle, wife doesn't, but I do. Think she's watched "Joyride" one too many times. Funniest part, her call-sign is "Candy Cane." The CB has kept me from being stuck in traffic jams, most recently, all the mudslides a couple years ago ("landlocked" me at home, darn the luck), and I have even helped a couple OTRs from losing their rigs/loads, reefer/brake fires.

 

Still remember the first time that I used a CB, back in the "had to have a license days." Log runner's trailer brakes were smoking something fierce, on a downhill run in NOR-CAL. My mother told my dad, his license, that I didn't use his license ID when talking to the driver, you would have thought that it was the end of the world. Believe that this was also about the time that FCC start to not care about licenses being used as call-signs.

[sdeeter19555]

At one point I ran an (illegal) 1×4 amp that would do about 600 clean watts. My wife would get on the radio when we were a lot younger and get the driver's all stirred up just talking (the whole "girl talking on a cb", nothing bad)...the poor soul with "speedracerchick.com" probably got a bizillion emails after that day...with that kind of power, they could never pin point where we were and some of those guys ran with us for some 300 miles up I-81 chatting...most of them thinking they were behind us (and trying to catch us), when they were actually miles ahead! Never did anything bad, but the time sure flew.

 

I have a portable "slipseat" setup for the rentals I get from time to time...still keeps me out of trouble.

 

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