Do truckers still use CB Radios?

[slowmover]

6NZ. You’d never know he was loaded heavy except by ride motions once on highway.

I think that’s the Western Kentucky Parkway.
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[robertwbob]

6NZ. You’d never know he was loaded heavy except by ride motions once on highway.

I think that’s the Western Kentucky Parkway.
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mine is c 15 built to c 16. somehow they build up more turbo pressure than c 16. no hills in my way either. extremely long legged

 

[SmileySixguns]

I was able to chit chat and help some guys out today with my CB. I was sitting in a miles long line of traffic, waiting to get into a rally to see President Trump. The road was a state road, double lane in both direction, but they had only put up one of those traffic message trailers, and it was WAY too close to the event. They wanted all the event traffic in the right lane, and had left the left lane open for through traffic. But miles prior to the solitary sign, it wasn’t obvious the left lane was clear. I could hear a few guys chatting behind me, so I hollered at them and let them know they could use the other lane to go on past. A few minutes later, I could see 3 or 4 trucks approaching. I asked the one I had been chatting with if he was the one in the lead hauling the steel, and he replied that it was indeed him. I 👋 as he came on by.

 

[robertwbob]

I was able to chit chat and help some guys out today with my CB. I was sitting in a miles long line of traffic, waiting to get into a rally to see President Trump. The road was a state road, double lane in both direction, but they had only put up one of those traffic message trailers, and it was WAY too close to the event. They wanted all the event traffic in the right lane, and had left the left lane open for through traffic. But miles prior to the solitary sign, it wasn’t obvious the left lane was clear. I could hear a few guys chatting behind me, so I hollered at them and let them know they could use the other lane to go on past. A few minutes later, I could see 3 or 4 trucks approaching. I asked the one I had been chatting with if he was the one in the lead hauling the steel, and he replied that it was indeed him. I 👋 as he came on by.

those of us that use cb thank you too

 

[Varmonter]

My wife and I travel fulltime in our rv. I've read posts b4 regarding this subject and people have all sorts of answers.. I can only add I see antennas on about 60 or 70% of the trucks I see..alot less than even 10 yrs ago.. I think for the most part it is still a tool in the truckers job. If you listen to 19 during the day it has become a skipshooters channel..sad really.
Because truckers and folks like me driving a 54 ft total rv and truck and even alot of 4 wheelers rely on 19 for road conditions..
You can be riding along and all of a sudden traffic stops..for no apparent reason..all of a sudden you will here the truckers chime in.."which lane should I be in?"
"Whats the hold up" " is there an alt route?...It's not really dead I think it's just more the skipshooters have ruined the chit chat for the truckers..I for one don't try dx on 19...there are lots of other frequencies active for that..But I'll
Listen and ask questions directions etc on 19. Smokey reports and the like..It's still there just not like it was..

 

[KI4ZNG]

I see very few antennas on the trucks that I see in our maintenance terminal.

 

[slowmover]

Some (FTL) it’s built-in.
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[mastr]

I think that’s the Western Kentucky Parkway.

Yep, the WKP at the Beaver Dam exit.

 

[KI4ZNG]

Some (FTL) it’s built-in.
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Yeah that is what is in all our trucks. One of the drivers biggest complaints. I see a lot of handhelds that they use to get them around the yards. But not many radios these days.

 

[robertwbob]

as long as im able to truck,i WILL have a working cb thats TURNED ON VOLUME UP where it can be heard squelched noise level out. we get a new truck n i go retrive it no radio ,i feel like im partially not equipped to do my job proper

 

[slowmover]

as long as im able to truck,i WILL have a working cb thats TURNED ON VOLUME UP where it can be heard squelched noise level out. we get a new truck n i go retrive it no radio ,i feel like im partially not equipped to do my job proper

Once one has that which is very good it’s a thorough truth.

 

[slowmover]

When there was a problem out ahead that you’re analyzing solutions for others: Talkback while pushing past the 65-MPH limit in a FREIGHTLINER Classic:



Using The Voice of God 95T to jumpstart a Sweet 16 and using a MOTOROLA public service radio extension speaker from all the way across the cab windshield to know how it’s going.




Crack a bit more gain into that 575-M6 mic.




All while runnin’ three pedals with RED WING #2413 steel-toes.







A world now gone.

Modernity dun changed every bit of it.

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[slowmover]

These days it’s also a “better” boot (orthopedic walking, not flat-foot, stand-in-place working) and how to fit injuries via lacing.

Dont need the extra mass of steelies to get drum brakes to work. Now it’s disc front-to-rear.

Can lace-to-toe as don’t need extended toe with but two pedals (automated manual transmission). These ain’t “light”, but the #2413s weighed almost 2X as much.

In same way with radio gear. No need to monitor myself as the new NRC radios run rock steady.

And no need at all for too much power. Clarity dethroned the old king.

Boots and radio that'll put some pep in your step from a big truck that’s more efficient and less work.



1989 is welcome to get jammed into a miles-long accident backup while 2024 diverted to State Route 17 many miles back to take the scenic route past it.

Categories covered . . . it’s as if the last 240-miles didn’t exist by comparisons to the old days. I can forget to take off the work shoes at shift end.

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[slowmover]

The value of all goods moved inside the USA (water, rail, pipeline, highway) is greater than that exported & imported, combined.

This shows the main flows.

Trucks are connected to all.

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[robertwbob]

ive radioed in all them red areas,hauling whatever they loaded me with cept watermelons 2 loads in 1 my first n last. time i was empty i had 3 days wasted dropping some here some there n got crap for time. and used radio all during my driving time

 

[slowmover]

Just a few nights ago east of Albuquerque on IH-40.

Twenty-seven (27) solid miles of travelers not smart enough to have a very good Citizen Band Radio or to have checked NOAA before making the climb up through the mountains. Trapped all night and into the next day.



“Yesss, had dinner of cold curried rice and took a leak out the door after I broke it free before having a dump in the walmart bag”

This was by choice.

Could have swung south on IH25 to stay the night where it remained above freezing and the next day traveled south to pick up IH-10 eastbound thru sunny, bright & warm El Paso.

Radio ain’t passive. Have to have some idea of what challenges a region presents. And then get the latest information to formulate an alternative.

Just because it’s bad out ahead doesn’t mean you’ll hear a warning in time.

A major fatality wreck can close an Interstate above 12-hours as can some construction.

And because of yet more wrecks some of those drivers didn’t get out until after the SECOND night.

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[slowmover]

 

[slowmover]

It’s viable, obviously, one can continue on SSB that which was started on AM when it’s this good.

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[DAVE1933]

It's a very large country with truckers being at a premium and revered... they are out there as proud as ever. You probably have less owner operators as opposed to employees of a company as GlobalNorth referred to.

It's basically location, I live in an area that was once a heavy trucker CB area in Pennsylvania where the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the New Jersey Turnpike, Route 1, Route 95, Route 13, and route 195, connected, with multiple truck stops and restaurants. At one time this was the busiest area for CB on Channel 19, lot lizards with handhelds and all in the 70s 80s 90s and Beyond.

That started to slow down in the early 2000s and today Channel 19 resembles Channel 9 in the 80s. We did have one psychotic who would ramble on all day with profanity and playing music and whistling for a number of years ago but he's gone now.

It depends on your location. I still listen to Channel 19 on one of my multiple radios. Once in awhile you will hear a caravan momentarily moving through.

In other parts of the country it is as busy as ever. It really is location-based

I drive and do have a cb ,i get tired of listening to someones terrible taste in music and the psychotic and the whining and the profanity! It does come in handle for road conditions

 

[DAVE1933]

Here in southern Missouri we hear more truck drivers on amateur radio (legally) versus CB. at least in my experience.

What area in mo