Anyone still use a CB Radio or are they not as common these days?
And whats your HANDLE?
i got a copy on you pig pen come back 
Nowhere near as common as they were 30+ years ago.Mobile phones and this,the internet are the modern way of communicating.
My handle was Renegade in 1979 and still is today.
I fitted them into out trucks as we normally run together and the other driver was a bit of a novice. so it meant that I could tell him if we were taking the next exit or if one of us wanted to stop we could just call the other. Also handy just for having a chat on long trips along quiet European motorways.
Never heard anybody else on them even when driving int he UK, years ago there’d always be somebody on the CB.
dont alot of tipper drivers and construction wagons use them tho? or is that mainly for health and safety?
terriers:
dont alot of tipper drivers and construction wagons use them tho? or is that mainly for health and safety?
Tippers drivers use them to tell one another when to come on site to tip or when to remove the sheet when waiting to tip tarmac. Tipper drivers and arable farmers are possibly the biggest users of CB radio these days.
I have one ,and still use it. 
My handle is babba booey
Ah, it’s the monthly CB radio thread.
Are we at that point in September already?
Ken.
Thetaff:
I have one ,and still use it.My handle is babba booey
I thought it was Waynedl Fan 
Dave the Renegade:
terriers:
dont alot of tipper drivers and construction wagons use them tho? or is that mainly for health and safety?Tippers drivers use them to tell one another when to come on site to tip or when to remove the sheet when waiting to tip tarmac. Tipper drivers and arable farmers are possibly the biggest users of CB radio these days.
Fitted mine in a basic fashion in my Cat loading shovel a few weeks ago. It’s very useful in that I can tell them there’s a delay such as a shovel refuelling/brokedown, if we’re loading off a reserve stockpile or if a lorry’s on the tip I can get a message from weighbridge over 2-way radio to tell them to load (whatever) without going to the weighbridge and back around the one way system.
Don’t use handles, unless it’s a rude term when I’ve loaded someone out of turn
still got one fitted use it most days when being loaded to tell the machine driver when i am on weight,
handles been widfire since i got my first one back in the early 80’s 
my sideband call sign was 1PS63 when i use to sit up half the night talking to the guys state side and down onto the continent
Dave the Renegade:
terriers:
dont alot of tipper drivers and construction wagons use them tho? or is that mainly for health and safety?Tippers drivers use them to tell one another when to come on site to tip or when to remove the sheet when waiting to tip tarmac. Tipper drivers and arable farmers are possibly the biggest users of CB radio these days.
Yeah still quite common in Construction as it’s a quick and cheap way of relay messages around sites, and giving the drivers a chance to gossip like old women
I keep thinking of fitting one into the works Transit but doubt I’d find anyone to talk too, unless I could pick up Police frequencies
Love hearing home basers arguing on the CB.
Saaamon:
Love hearing home basers arguing on the CB.
Usually Saga related stuff; I’ve heard such rivetting discussions on subjects like the Radio Times, funeral plans (sort where you get a Parker Pen), who’s died, the wifes’ bunions, Rover cars (naturally where the elderly are talking), and last week “her across the road…”
Surely they could spice it up by discussing the lovely nurse who wipes their arse (not the wiping part) or the teenage madams walking about town in nork revealing outfits?
im actualy supprised that they aint been made illegal same as mobile phones cause in theory. is it not the same thing… not that im saying to ban them in anyway… just a thought that just struck me
terriers:
im actualy supprised that they aint been made illegal same as mobile phones cause in theory. is it not the same thing… not that im saying to ban them in anyway… just a thought that just struck me
I think you can fit a seperate PTT switch, like we had on the busses where you press it with your foot and it’s a fixed mic.
I think if you have it in your hand, you CAN still be done the same as a mobile phone user, but how many phone users do you see in a day compared to CB users?
Also, weren’t they trying to make you have a broadcasting licence for them donkeys years back?
i have an imported cobra, it cost a lot of money.
why the [zb] i bothered i don’t know.
i’ve had the odd chat with other drivers on the continent, then everyone seems to switch them off until the get to the A55 or A75, then they don’t shut up.
that’s on AM though.
They can’t ban them as it’d be too close to Police radios to distinguish in law, so even a hand held mic isn’t illegal
dew:
They can’t ban them as it’d be too close to Police radios to distinguish in law, so even a hand held mic isn’t illegal
is it not one rule for the police and one rile for the rest of us and they only turn around and say the police have had adiqute training to drive while talking on the radio and rolling a ■■■ lol
waynedl:
terriers:
im actualy supprised that they aint been made illegal same as mobile phones cause in theory. is it not the same thing… not that im saying to ban them in anyway… just a thought that just struck meI think you can fit a seperate PTT switch, like we had on the busses where you press it with your foot and it’s a fixed mic.
I think if you have it in your hand, you CAN still be done the same as a mobile phone user, but how many phone users do you see in a day compared to CB users?Also, weren’t they trying to make you have a broadcasting licence for them donkeys years back?
you were suppose to have a licence but not many ever bothered