Breedon on the hill near Ashby de la zouch was good for getting out!!!
A lot of the timber haulage guys use them, so they don’t run into trouble (or each other) on the forestry.
Never got into them, one of the good things about this job is NOT having someone yacking in your ear!
tango boy:
10.4 good buddy
Defiantly got your frount door
there are still loads of cb’s around our area, the quarry’s even have them in the loading shovels, weighbridge, tar plants etc so its rare to see a tipper without one!
I still have several CB’s, only one that is hooked up and used now and again. Plenty of tipper drivers and timber hauliers use them, as well as farmers. Also the licence was scrapped a few years back.
Anybody remember “Thumblina” from Hertford, or " Pegasus" and “Champagne Lady” from Royston?
nothings happened to them truckiewise in northern Ireland and eire… most would stil have them,and definitely for running the 41/55 and most definitely the 75…always the number 1 must have addition to anything over here… A.M though nothings changed in that repect. it pays to let the Donegal mafia shake the bushes when coming off the boat,and tag on to their shirt tails if you cant be in the rocking chair…you need to be in the 100kms + mode though… 
A lot of us moved over to ham radio.
Ken. G8FSO
Quinny:
A lot of us moved over to ham radio.Ken. G8FSO
That’s my retirement project (or one of them),used to enjoy the old CB till the head bangers got on there 24/7 used it to DX all over the place on side band
3300John:
splitshift:
Still got one, AM plus upper & lower side band,decided to drag the old Sommerkamp TS 340 DX of the garage + mag mount & SWR meter, jobs a good un’ not many Brits on there these days,used to run it with a "burner"in the 80’s
Hiya splitshift…i had a summercamp FT 7B. we’d go to Buxton when the skip was good. the yanks come in no problem.
cq cq cqdx MC 247 sitting by.
John
Not many of us left these days,used to be quite a gang of us at one time in my area (yeah I know sad old gits)
Moose:
there are still loads of cb’s around our area, the quarry’s even have them in the loading shovels, weighbridge, tar plants etc so its rare to see a tipper without one!
Yet at one time you were not allowed to use them in quarries incase they triggered premature explosions, used to be a sign in Ballidon to that effect, yet virtually every other quarry I went into used them! 
Wouldn’t have been without my rig, it would be like losing my right arm.
Pete.
They were great for getting to know about motorway hold ups or getting directions to a tip.
A lot of less able house bound people with home bases used to get great enjoyment from chatting to the truckers and guiding them in to local places.
Some would talk to the same drivers passing through their area regularly for years on end, perhaps every night to the night trunkers. Helped pass the monotony of the long lonely journey.
Good days indeed, sad it didn’t last. Ever tried having a chat and a laugh with a Tom Tom?