Anyone here still use CB radio?

[brentspeak]

I CB'd (citizen band'd) as a kid, though I didn't do a very good job at it. Mostly I tried to converse with truckers, who often got really PO'd I was interrupting their conversations. (They often had CB lingo, which I didn't understand, to tell one another 'just ignore the little punk when he's piping in'.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. The CB is an invaluable tool for distance drivers

Just keep listenin' to the truckers and you'll never be stopped by Smokey again- they know EXACTLY where all the cops with the radar guns are. (Ever seen an 18-wheeler pulled over for speeding?)

If you don't have a CB on board, simply follow behind a truck and you'll be safe.

[liberaltrucker]

2. 10-4 on THAT!

"liberaltrucker (my actual handle) northbound and down. Catch ya on the flop".

:hi:

[Redstone]

3. Keep the shiny side up, and the greasy side down.

Redstone

[InvisibleTouch]

4. Actually I have seen 18-wheelers pulled over...

...though I don't know if it was for speeding.

Once I saw one on its side, hanging halfway over the edge of an elevated exit ramp, and on fire. The things you encounter on those long cross-country drives.

I always did gauge my speed a bit by the trucks, though.

[AggieGal]

5. This is the main reason we have one!

My favorite saying from the CB was "Bear out of the woods, bear coming out of the woods!" I laughed hard at that one.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Every day on the job

I'm posting from the sleeper of my tractor while I wait on an unload.
Gotta love an aircard and a laptop.

Don't ever think that if you just pace a trucker because he knows where the speed cops are. Sometimes it's just a by gosh and by golly guess, as the information on the CB is far, far from accurate.

Using a scanner is way more effective.

I just don't speed. Fuel is waaaaaay to expensive to waste.