CB Radio???

On the back roads that we travel it was useless. No one else around. On an interstate in the east it was just a lot of B.S. talk.
Took mine out.

Truckers still used them yes sometimes the language is salty but it's still nice to find out about accidents traffic etc.... I have mine on when I travel.

I have a CB in our Southwind. Normally it's turned off
If I'm in a traffic jam or heavy traffic I turn it on to check on local road conditions.
If it breaks, I don't know if it will be replaced. It's really not that important, to me, for traveling.

They do use them sometimes. I dont have one...that's so seventies! And my doctor says "less salt," camping.

I have one in the truck but it's hardly ever on. We use VHF handheld 2 way radio's to communicate when camping. Not FRS, no range. VHF range is 10 miles in an urban area, lots farther in the boonies. A license is required.

I'm thinking about putting mine back in service after people yelling at me that I had a problem. I blew two tires on my last road trip across Hwy 80. Rather than the hand motions or flashing of lights a radio transmission might have been quicker.

Back in the 60's and 70's it seemed everybody had one. THey are still in use today and they still provide the occasional bit of very useful information.

Two stories
One old, one much newer

Comign home one Christmas time from my parents house (Family Christmas) Black ice situtation, CB tells me of an overturned semi ahead.. I start backing it down.. Stoped when I got to 1/2 of a 4 car accident, the two at the scene were totaled (The other two were at the nearby truck stop just down the road) I had no damage, not involved.. Had I not had warming I'm not sure I could have stopped safely before crashing into the end of the backup.

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Heading south for the winter long about Miler Marker 77 on I-75.. Radio suddenly tells me of not one but TWO fatal accidents long about MM 73.. Exit 76 right in front of me.. I got to the top of the ramp just as they closed the entrance opposite... Spent a nice relaxing evening and night, continued on an open road in the AM (I was in no hurry)

Without the CB I'd have been in several hours worth of Traffic Jam.

I have one that I use when traveling. It has come in handy.

I had one, because of having 2 daughters traveling with me at all times, I had to really turn the squelch way up.... and volume down because of the trash..

Now that they are older, and not with us as much, I have been thinking of getting it back into the truck again...

I don't have one in my motorhome. There were a few occasions on my recent trip in Alaska where I would have liked to have had one--most notably approaching a few of the nastier bits of the Dalton highway, where it would be very comforting to know if a semi truck was about to pop into view coming the other way, and presumably vice-versa for them if there was one. Ice cut hill southbound in particular comes to mind.