by cmptch » Sun 2008 Jun 01 12:37
I would be a fourth generation truck driver if I wanted. I don't, but it seems that I have a leg up on the driving front. When I go on a trip that's more than an hour, I like to have a CB Radio in the car with me. Truckers are all over the place, and most of them carry a radio for road hazard information, (e.g. Location of smokey, which lane they need to be in during construction.) You can get up to date information to the exact mile marker (yard stick) on all police cruisers on the road, and sometimes outdated information, such as if I was heading from Cincinatti to New york, There's always a driver who can give me the location of every coupe he's seen betwwen me and my destination.
Of course, you do have to put up with the babble and sometimes nonsense that goes on, but that's what the squelch is for.
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