CB Radio
Art Vanderlay
Just wondering if in USA truckers use any other form of radio other than
channel 19 AM on CB.
Do you use FRS/GMRS and if so is there a particular channel that is
used? I'm talking about on road comms, traffic reports etc here, not
company business channels.
Here in Australia we used to use channel 8 AM on CB but that is
virtually silent now as we have a 40 channel UHF CB band in the 476.000
to 477.000MHz region that is now commonly used.
For trucking mostly channel 40 and 29 are used.
Thanks, Mark.
tscottme
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Hello Mark. Here in the US many truck drivers are noticing a decline in CB
use among drivers. Most drivers have CBs but many of us have noticed that
less and less often are you able to contact other drivers on the CB. That
is probably due to the explosion in devices like cell phones, satellite
radio, and CDs/MP3 players. It seems drivers just don't have the CB on,
except after they are in a traffic jam.
From time to time I run across another driver with a "ham radio" setup, but
that happens maybe a couple of times per year for me. I've only heard of
team drivers using the FMS/GMRS radios for communication between the team,
help with backing and keeping in touch at shipper or truck stop. It seems
widespread adoption of the radios you mention is hindered by the same
problem with the CBs with sideband, it's more a problem with getting an
agreement to use a specif channel/sideband and less a problem getting
something besides CB.
Probably the biggest complaint, besides car drivers, among truck drivers is
being away from home the phone is likely the big competitor to CB use.
My small part of the big company I work for used Motorola "fleet radios" for
a while. These were probably 140-ish/170-ish MHz like taxi cabs used. But
those lasted for 1-2 years about 5 years ago and were replaced by company
cell phone. Of course the companies are using satellite devices like
Qualcomm but that's not really a driver-to-driver channel.
Let's see what others know about this.
--
Scott
The big surprise with the current president is not so much that he is
incompetent, inexperienced and divisive, but the extent to which he is all
of those things, and the extent to which anyone is surprised. It's not like
there weren't enough warning signs on the way in, all of which were
summarily dismissed. - Jules Crittenden
richard
Channel 19 is still in wide use, but it's mainly all horsehockey, camel
dung, and pure bullshit.
I'd have mine on while on the road, but when I parked in a truck stop I'd
shut it off. The main reason I even had one was to contact the customers if
they had one.
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick
"richard" <mem...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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How about that I-40 route?
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Wow, it got quieter around here than when you ask Rollover for evidence of a
CDL.
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Popeye
"If one does as God does enough times, one
will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick
"Art Vanderlay" <nos...@thank.you.very.much> wrote in message
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I'd love to drive in Australia.
In California, people traveling north-south use Ch 17, and east-west uses
Ch 19 (I could be backwards).
It's a good idea in their dense traffic areas.
In Quebec, and some parts of northern Canada, Ch 1 is used.
Also, upper Canada uses VHF radio, including the scale houses.
Tscott is right, though, CB use is on the serious decline.
I leave mine on all the time, but squelched down so that I can only here
people near me.
I have a Cobra 29 with a power board, and a 250 watt kicker.
richard
> "richard" <mem...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
> news:1g1ur9xxuujuh$.dlg@evanplatt.sux...
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:11:57 +1100, Art Vanderlay wrote:
>>
>>> Hi There
>>>
>>> Just wondering if in USA truckers use any other form of radio other than
>>> channel 19 AM on CB.
>>>
>>> Do you use FRS/GMRS and if so is there a particular channel that is
>>> used? I'm talking about on road comms, traffic reports etc here, not
>>> company business channels.
>>>
>>> Here in Australia we used to use channel 8 AM on CB but that is
>>> virtually silent now as we have a 40 channel UHF CB band in the 476.000
>>> to 477.000MHz region that is now commonly used.
>>>
>>> For trucking mostly channel 40 and 29 are used.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Mark.
>>
>> Channel 19 is still in wide use, but it's mainly all horsehockey, camel
>> dung, and pure bullshit.
>> I'd have mine on while on the road, but when I parked in a truck stop I'd
>> shut it off. The main reason I even had one was to contact the customers
>> if
>> they had one.
>
>
> How about that I-40 route?
>
http://tinyurl.com/philly-phoenix
Perhaps you should vent your dislikes to Google maps because they came up
with the route.
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick
> Dude's goin from philly to arizona through kansas and colorado?
> why? any trucker who runs the coasts will tell you that's the wrong route.
> he should be goin across I-40 not I-70.
Not that you know where his stops might be.
JCSTFU.
Roughrider50
Several years ago there was a push to go to FM radio or FMRS/GMRS or
something along them lines. The beauty of it was there was no static,
no overcrowding, and due to the fact the range on them was 5 miles or
less under ideal conditions there was no bleed over. Didn't appeal to
a lot of people especially those with the Billy big rigger mentality,
so they never really did catch on. Today a lot of truck drivers run
with their CB's "detuned" so they only hear those that are just a few
truck lengths away. Too, much crap on the CB now..... Silly sounding
echo boxes, annoying Pinger's, and weird sounding people. If I see
another one of our trucks I will give him a holler on the CB,
otherwise if it's somebody I know I'll just call them on the cell
phone..... A far better way of communicating anyway. Over the years
various companies that I drove for always had a company channel,
something other than channel 19. Still, all in all the lonely CB radio
does come in handy.
Where you find the laws most numerous,
there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Arcesilaus