Punchy Dan:
Proper lorry drivers like my self and a certain fridge driver on here have cbs but of course we only use them when stationary
Proper drivers? Aye right
I Had a CB from when they were illegal,… and usually bought off the Paddys on the boat.
When the legal ones came out,.I got a one, but it got to the stage where there were far too many knob heads on it, usually sat at home in their bedrooms winding up truckers , so I binned it about 20yrs ago.
I say binned it, it must be still on the attic with my windscreen flags and Dutch clogs. …ok I admit it, I only stopped wearing them last year. but still got the wallet on a chain. .a la European Chauffeur .
Are CBs illegal now to use whilst driving? Suppose they must be.
I’m 90% sure you can still use one while driving as they don’t come under a mobile device and under a hand held 2 way communicator or something,I looked it up a couple of years ago as I was going to fit mine back in but the never bothered.
I took mine out in 2013 When I left my last job
edd1974:
.maybe someone can tell me.if this is true.?
Other week was queing on roundabout at south mimms.
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Was 2 wide loads with an ■■■■■■…wernt that wide more oversized portacabin things .
My light changed to green. 1st wide load obviously jumped a red light.
I set off and almost ploughed into the 2nd cabin as he basically followed him through . I yelled at the ■■■■■■ driver
And he basically told me to f offf .
Wide escorted loads can’t be separated. We’re allowed to jump red lights as have to keep in convoy
No power at all, most we use are ■■■■ on, i have come across one or 2 complete knobs who actually think they have blue lights on the roof !
windrush:
It passed the time of day when running with either one of your fellow workmates or a driver/od from another company which being on tippers we often were. Two of our drivers at Tilcon and later STB Transport , both deceased now alas, ran reguarly together from our quarry near Ashbourne to Kent, London or Somerset. Basil ‘Dickie Bow’ McCabe from Wirksworth and Geoff ‘Big Tilly’ Land who lived in Bonsall: Geoff would be rattling away on the CB all the way, Basil used to turn him off to listen to the radio and when he switched his ‘rig’ back on a few hours later Geoff would still be nattering away to him! Jimmy ‘I can shout louder than everyone else’ Banks was another who ran with them. Punchy Dan knows what I am on about, his dad was another we chatted with. They were the best times of my working life. It seems now that drivers rarely even talk to each other, ‘back in the day’ we used to have darts and domino evenings together after work, annual dinner dances, whist drives etc for the wives, where did it all go so wrong?
Licences for CB’s were done away with before I finished 18 years ago.
Pete.
Yes quite funny riding with him when there could be anything from 2 to 6 plus artic tippers running together all in different colours but should another motorist cross one of them the CB radio was the way to go watching them play tricks on the unsuspecting driver like closing the door and making a sandwich highly amusing
Aye right
…ok I admit it, I only stopped wearing them last year.
but still got the wallet on a chain.
