CB in a Class A

GlennLever wrote:

wny_pat wrote:
Glenn,
I don't know what it is with TankerYankers that they don't like CBs??? Most of them don't run CBs:h. Maybe cause they just ran local?? Maybe cause we jumped seats and had to install the CB and antenna every day?? Have probably waved at you many times when up in the Rochester area. Even delivered some of the Hess stations up that way. Drove for Crossett (retired from there) and never left home without the CB, and it did save my butt a number of times!!! Also drove over the road for other outfits before finding a home.

CB are really handy when someone yells out that there is a accident around the curve at the bottom of the hill and you have all that extra time to slow it down:E. Now I'm talking the back roads in the hills of western Pennsylvania, not Rochester.
Pat

I actually had an assigned truck, was the most senior driver for ARG in Bergen (before going to Hess). I paid to have Mack put the antennas on the the Vision I had, put the radio in and then took it out. True I was home every night.

Heck, we probably had coffee together sometime then!

wny_pat wrote:
Glenn,
I don't know what it is with TankerYankers that they don't like CBs??? Most of them don't run CBs:h. Maybe cause they just ran local?? Maybe cause we jumped seats and had to install the CB and antenna every day?? Have probably waved at you many times when up in the Rochester area. Even delivered some of the Hess stations up that way. Drove for Crossett (retired from there) and never left home without the CB, and it did save my butt a number of times!!! Also drove over the road for other outfits before finding a home.

CB are really handy when someone yells out that there is a accident around the curve at the bottom of the hill and you have all that extra time to slow it down:E. Now I'm talking the back roads in the hills of western Pennsylvania, not Rochester.
Pat

I actually had an assigned truck, was the most senior driver for ARG in Bergen (before going to Hess). I paid to have Mack put the antennas on the the Vision I had, put the radio in and then took it out. True I was home every night.

Glenn,
I don't know what it is with TankerYankers that they don't like CBs??? Most of them don't run CBs:h. Maybe cause they just ran local?? Maybe cause we jumped seats and had to install the CB and antenna every day?? Have probably waved at you many times when up in the Rochester area. Even delivered some of the Hess stations up that way. Drove for Crossett (retired from there) and never left home without the CB, and it did save my butt a number of times!!! Also drove over the road for other outfits before finding a home.

CB are really handy when someone yells out that there is a accident around the curve at the bottom of the hill and you have all that extra time to slow it down:E. Now I'm talking the back roads in the hills of western Pennsylvania, not Rochester.
Pat

GlennLever wrote:

wny_pat wrote:

GlennLever wrote:

Doug156 wrote:
I am thinking about putting a CB radio in my Class A. Any suggestions? How do the portable ones work?

Thanks

CB radios add to clutter and on the road make more noise then they are worth

And they can save your life! Just ask any old time truck driver out there. But you have to be listening to it.

Cell phones have a longer range.

I am a past big truck driver
http://www.leverfamilysite.com/glenn%27s_day_job.htm

phones would be fine for talking with somebody else in your "convoy", but totally worthless for asking an oncoming trucker about traffic issues. I have one of the cobra all in the mike jobbies and it was dreadful as it had a speaker about the size of a nickle. had to plug in an external speaker to hear it and there goes the space savings.
but do a search as there have been several threads on CBs lately
bumpy

I gave up on those a long time ago...more trouble than they were worth and never did save my life. Lot's of background noise and marginal usefulness.

Cell phone is much better.

ArchHoagland wrote:
GlennLever....Are you allowed to have CB's on fuel delivery trucks?

Seems to me there would be a slight danger of sparks.

Yes, in fact most carry much more powerful radios to communicate with dispatch on deliveries

GlennLever....Are you allowed to have CB's on fuel delivery trucks?

Seems to me there would be a slight danger of sparks.

wny_pat wrote:

GlennLever wrote:

Doug156 wrote:
I am thinking about putting a CB radio in my Class A. Any suggestions? How do the portable ones work?

Thanks

CB radios add to clutter and on the road make more noise then they are worth

And they can save your life! Just ask any old time truck driver out there. But you have to be listening to it.

Cell phones have a longer range.

I am a past big truck driver
http://www.leverfamilysite.com/glenn%27s_day_job.htm

GlennLever wrote:

Doug156 wrote:
I am thinking about putting a CB radio in my Class A. Any suggestions? How do the portable ones work?

Thanks

CB radios add to clutter and on the road make more noise then they are worth

And they can save your life! Just ask any old time truck driver out there. But you have to be listening to it.

I put one in and after the first trip I took it out. I rather keep both of my hand on the steering wheel then hear all the jabber.