![]() ![]() The CB radio has a long and illustrious history in the trucking sector and it’s sad to see how little it's used these days. ![]() Some drivers say they still use it now and again to keep an eye on traffic and stay informed about any incidents that are clogging the highways. Nowadays, just a few professional drivers utilize the CB to converse.Many people believe that the radio as a medium is no longer used in the way that it was intended. The way people listen to the radio has tragically altered as well. The definitions of phrases changed throughout time and differ from place to region, and the initial ten codes are no longer widely used. ![]() We can't fathom either film without the trucker culture's flowery vocabulary. CB language can be found in some of the classic trucker films, such as Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy. Truckers developed a language of their own, which they used when talking to each other on their CB radios. As they say, you gotta talk the talk and walk the walk.ĬB codes and trucker talk date back to the 1960s and 1970s, when CB radios were popular. Still, knowing the CB lingo is part of being a trucker. The laws were far stricter back then than they are now of course, and we could surely use some strict regulations on the radio programs today considering the amount of content that serious truckers could do without. Truck drivers used CB radios, also known as Citizen's Band Radios, to communicate decades ago (before the mobile phone!). If you have no idea what this talk is about then you clearly require some 'talking like a true trucker' instructions. “You’re clean back to the 12 yd stick, where I got on”.The coops were workin’ hard on your side going east.” “There was a plain brown wrapper at the 56 yd stick, a bear in the air, and a wreck the 104.How’s it lookin’ over your shoulder? What’d you leave behind you?” “Break 1-9 for that westbound bull rack. ![]()
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