Staying Occupied

Ive never found the fm transmitters to be that good, new scanias dont have a usb or a aux socket so am stuck with the bloody radio most of the time :frowning:

Bought a cheap FM transmitter from TESCO last night before my shift and must say it works well, not a lot of interference over long distance.

I was more talking about night’s really, I listen to Steve Wright and Simon Mayo and then once they’re done it’s boredom boredom boredom. Sometimes I’ll listen to a CD but with only 1 of the 2 lorries having a working CD player it can be a bit frustrating, more often than not because I’m in the one without the working CD player. :imp:

oldsid:

Stricko:
I listen to a lot of podcasts

Whats a podcast?

Basically it’s a condensed broadcast of a radio show that you download to your iPod or phone or mp3 player to listen to at your leisure. When I say condensed it’s exactly the same show but minus the news/travel/weather interrupting it.

All BBC podcasts are free, just go to each stations web page to see which programs are available. Radio 4 and radio 5 are my staples.

But podcasts are available from broadcasters all over the world, some are free others are not.

Hope this helps.

I plug my android phone into the aux input and bang out the tunes all day. And maybe peruse youtube on the breaks!

player+fm transmitter tune into 106.0 usually works around here, and settle down for umpteen hours of serious driving music of all genres. :slight_smile:
Too much interference to use them well in major cities though, so I keep the music to the open road. There’s something sounding like a somalian rant going on at 106.0 on M25 J24 area that forces me to re-tune to 105.6 :angry:

I used to try to learn French from cd’s. Kept me alert, even if I forgot it all by the next day!

bought myself a “pure highway” DAB radio. transmits on fm so you can move it from truck to truck. with the external aerial it’s reception is great, and i can plug my mp3 into it too :slight_smile: still bugger all on worth listening too, but much more choice :laughing:

if i’m driving late evening, i do like the suicide phone ins on bbc local radio

Window licking… Nothing beats a good ■■■■ :laughing:

Radio 1 by day combined with checking out the on-coming fitties :laughing: and Heart in the evenings