New here. I run a small internet radio station built around trucker and CB culture: classic country, road reports and short CB lingo segments. I'm here to learn from people who key up every day, so we get the details right. First question: what is the one piece of CB etiquette you wish every new driver knew?
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New here: what CB etiquette do you wish every new driver knew?
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Cody Jinks is playing on your station deal right now, thats pretty Kewl for this TX boy. The new drivers will learn, its hard to wish they had knowledge that they are not exposed to until they get on and dive into the radio world.
Most new drivers don't use a CB! The drivers running and using them have been around for awhile and understand the value of CB radio on the road. To newbies, it is their parents technology and they aren't that interested in it, unless they happen to be radio nerds anyways. There are also a couple other factors at play...... some companies actually disallow CB radios and many newer trucks are a dog to get a CB working well in due to all the fiberglass and plastic parts and the modern electronics & LED lights which create a sea of radio interference. And then you have places like where I am in Western Canada, where truckers haven't used CB at all since the early 2000's. The govt issued them four VHF channels and that's where they are now. 154.100 MHz is pretty much what channel 19 used to be back in the day. The times they are a-changin'!
That's the truth!
154MHz is full of Punjabi as the truckers drive by my place. Local LaFarge pit dump trucks. use AM ch. 3 (won't open the gate w/o CB) and the odd logging trucks use CB where VHF becomes useless on the mountains.
Thanks, all three of you.
Lost Ram, glad Cody Jinks came up at the right moment for a Texas boy.
BC Coyote, that is exactly the kind of detail I was hoping for. I did not know Western Canada moved to the four VHF channels, or that 154.100 does the job channel 19 used to do. Would you mind if I mention that on air in a short CB segment, credited to "a driver from the west coast of Canada"? The point about fiberglass cabs and LED noise probably deserves its own thread.
sp5it, noted. That one applies on every road, radio or no radio.
Lost Ram, glad Cody Jinks came up at the right moment for a Texas boy.
BC Coyote, that is exactly the kind of detail I was hoping for. I did not know Western Canada moved to the four VHF channels, or that 154.100 does the job channel 19 used to do. Would you mind if I mention that on air in a short CB segment, credited to "a driver from the west coast of Canada"? The point about fiberglass cabs and LED noise probably deserves its own thread.
sp5it, noted. That one applies on every road, radio or no radio.
No problem my friend. The four channels are referred to as "LADD" channels, standing for "Logging and driver dispatch". They are 154.100, 158.940, 154.325 and 173.37 MHz, with 154.1 being the main calling and chat channel (just like 19 used to be). Pretty sure the same channels are used in Alberta as well as B.C.
There is a LOT of activity all day long on 154.1 even way out here in the boondocks.