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My inlaws (father, brothers and grandfather) are all truckdrivers and they get their share of that annoyance. The grandfather has also been a preacher, whenever he hears the foul language he breaks in with a "Praise God" and that (usually) immediately shuts it down. I like his style.

CompVest wrote:I also, remember how foul the language got on it as well. That is why my husband and I got into Amateur Radio.

LOL - I remember the CB heyday as well...my parents had one in their car back then, my handle was "Eagle" or something like that...fast forward to a few years ago - I used to be heavily into offroading/Jeeping/rockcrawling, and I spent alot of time driving to far away destinations so my tow vehicle (and my Jeep) had a CB...I found that keeping it on Ch 19 would keep me informed of road conditions, traffic, bears, etc. Every now and then you'll get a foul-mouthed windbag but most of the time it's good info.

In my younger/dumber days (hmmmm...maybe I'm still there? LOL) I used to have a radar gun...and I also used to engage in street-racing (yes, dumb, I know, those days are long gone, I drive a Jeep Wrangler now, nice and slow)...one of the fun things was hitting the radar gun and watching my opponent lock them up...

If you do alot of highway driving there's really no substitute for a CB, keep it on 19 and listen to the truckdriver chatter, it's VERY useful. You'll pick up all the lingo in a short amount of time, ie - slicktop, 4 wheeler, customer, etc...