CB radios, useful or not..
I was digging through a box of stuff and found a CB radio that I had in my toad when we were motorhome-ing. For a moment I considered installing it in my Suburban but, it occurred to me that in the 1...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
Our Garmin GPS usually gives us a heads up for any significant traffic delays along our route when we're on the Interstates near larger cities. Further away, Google Maps does a pretty good job for delays. We do turn on the CB sometimes though, to see if there's anything ahead we should know about, especially in bad weather.
Yeah Google Maps is tough to beat as far as traffic goes. In addition to collecting info from their Waze app users, if your GPS is turned on then it's keeping track of you and the traffic conditions you might be experiencing (that is if you have an Android device; on Apple devices you have to be actually using the Google Maps app for it to track you). It's a fascinating - and accurate - application of "Big Data." Google Maps will route you around delays in near real-time.
Sorry but a CB isn't going to give you that type of help. But I have one - I use it to communicate with other people I'm traveling with. I also hope that if someone else that has a CB notices some sort of issue with my rig that they'd let me know. I monitor channel 19 mostly, but let it scan.
Plus, it's a 1984 Allegro. Gotta have a CB on the dash for authenticity purposes.
