Do truckers still use CB Radios?

[robertwbob]

1 wreck nobody was hurt in but was funny .. driver had a new peterbilt long hood with 1 of the first cat engines. was headed north. on the curve in the 3rd picture i posted that says welcome to the boston mtns, he had power was loaded with 1/4" smooth finish plywood. only had rope holding the wood on plus tartps. he rolled blocking the whole road. but the funny part the wood was floating down in mtnsburg vally like sheets of paper. i told 1 guy that by tonite every old house in mountainsburg will have new ceilings.
thank you for diggin up old memorys slo mover. i was 18 then n im almost 71 now . talkin about 71 n im turnin 71. next spring might have to load up the esclade n burn a tank of arabic gold n go reminice the old road. the razorback pig trail. after you leave west fork it gets B A D.

 

[kc2asb]

might as well show the hard part too of the old road. the pictures dont fully display steepness . way too many lost their lives on that strech of HELL.


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Too many curves in the road. Combine that with steepness and no wonder it's a hazardous stretch of road.

 

[robertwbob]

Too many curves in the road. Combine that with steepness and no wonder it's a hazardous stretch of road.

since new road only trucks allowed are wreckers,farm and logging and fuel trucks extremely local

 

[bailagent67]

Hopefully, with the new illegals getting deported, more truckers will start/have CB back in the truck.

 

[robertwbob]

yes sir

 

[robertwbob]

lets hope so

 

[mark40]

Went to this call with my Vol. FD this morning. Not CB equipped. Not an immigrant. Just a newly unemployed driver I presume.

 

[prcguy]

Hopefully, with the new illegals getting deported, more truckers will start/have CB back in the truck.

What do people who enter the US illegally have to do with truckers and CB radios?

 

[slowmover]

Guess his A/C wasn’t cool enough.

English proficiency or citizenship status are covers for what matters: IQ, and spatial-reasoning skills.

Panicky gets the results imaged. It’s a job highly affected by one’s emotional state that day.

Control of emotions isn’t a tell of today’s men. Too young for too long. What one might get away with in a Camry don’t work in even an empty truck (27-34,000#)


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[slowmover]

What do people who enter the US illegally have to do with truckers and CB radios?

Accident rates going up. More wrecks, and they’re more serious. No training & bogus licensure atop having hacked ELD HOS devices.

Radio is the heads-up needed. Cars can often get around problems which big trucks can’t.

Here’s the misleading cover story:



In 2016 the national fleet was still drum brakes stem-to-stern with manual transmissions.

Since then it changed overnight to disc brakes and auto trans. Far, far easier to stay out of trouble.

Safety standards, plus ELD, plus enforcement, are all significantly better than a decade ago.

I’ve not ever been hobby-horsing or exaggerating the need for High Performance Citizen Band.

To go further is to take it off public forum which shouldn’t matter given the consequences.

On-topic I’m glad to say I hear more NRC-equipped radios every six months. No requests for repeats is better than ever.

I doubt that the talented & experienced drivers will make the change today. May take awhile longer as this subject enters the public mind.

For them that research, I’d say we’ve been getting up momentum here at RR just in time.

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[prcguy]

Accident rates going up. More wrecks, and they’re more serious. No training & bogus licensure atop having hacked ELD HOS devices.

Radio is the heads-up needed. Cars can often get around problems which big trucks can’t.

Here’s the misleading cover story:

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Ok, illegal aliens who drive big trucks with less experience and circumvent rules = more and serious accidents. But I don't get what that has to do with the statement "with the new illegals getting deported, more truckers will start/have CB back in the truck". Are you talking existing truckers who don't use CB now, or US citizens/legal residents who replace the illegal alien truckers will start using CBs?

 

[KevinC]

4 years and 25 pages, I think we've determined some truckers still use CB radios and some don't. And we're getting way off topic now. Closing.