IGNORING THE CB!!

[LadyTrucker]

I HAVE LEARNED TO IGNORE THE MALE TRUCKERS ON THE CB THAT ACT LIKE DOGS IN HEAT WHEN THEY HEAR A FEMALE VOICE ON THERE. WE ALL KNOW HOW HARD IT CAN BE FOR ANY OF US, MALE OR FEMALE, TO FIND ANYONE TO HAVE AN INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION WITH ANYMORE. ALL YOU HEAR IS FOUL LANGUAGE.
ALL I CAN SAY YOU AUTOMATICALLY TURN YOUR CB OFF AND TURN THE RADIO ON.

KEEP ON TRUCKING,
YOUR LADYTRUCKER

[Admin]

I HOPE SOME OF THOSE GUY'S ARE READING YOUR POSTING.
WELCOME TO THE TruckStopUSA LADYTRUCKER :D

[Jimbo]

Hey LadyTrucker,
I agree with you 100%, but don't write off men on the CB all together. I talk on the radio a lot, and always conduct myself as if my mother is sitting in the cab with me.

I was running out of NJ one day, headed down to Houston, TX. I hooked up with a woman driving ahead of me, and wee talked for hours. She told me that she liked to talk, but had a hard time finding intelligent conversation. The miles fell off the odometer pretty easy that day.

I have to admit it is nice to talk to a woman now and then, more than talking to another guy. Forgive me, but the soft voice of a woman is a pleasant sound to me. I try to return the favor by keeping my mouth clean, and my mind out of the gutter. Of course you get on here with that HOT,HOT,HOT looking Avatar, making clean thoughts a hard thing to hold on to :D .

[Admin]

JIMBO SHE MIGHT BE 90 YEARS OLD , YOU NEVER KNOW. JUST KIDDING !!!! :D :D :D

[Lonleyboy515]

Ah JIMBO YOUR SUCH A NICE GUY :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Hillbilly]

You aren't the only one, and you don't have to be a woman to be fed up with the trash. I have a general rule. Three things that will cause you to be not replied to, turned down, or shut off:
1. Foul language(I don't use it, and I ain't gonna listen to it).
2. Echo boxes(If you need to distort your voice,so your not recognized, and force people to ask you to repeat yourself, cause they can't understand you, then I ain't interested).
3. Noisemakers(You assault my ears with those loud beeps, and such, you can take a flyin' leap)
Other than that, I'm always ready to have an intelligent, friendly conversation. I will treat ladies as such. I'm not saying we can't go off on another channel for some off-color cuttin' up. But you can even do that without being vulgar.

[Jimbo]

I had a real heart breaker a few years back, all thanks to some faceless jerk on the CB.

I was doing my usual run home from Chicago. It was getting late, and I was a little tired. I pulled into the Petro in Youngstown, OH. I got a quick bunch of items, like a few sodas, and a bunch of bags of "bad for ya" stuff.
I wanted to keep rolling, but had my doubts if I was going to make it all the way to Philly before needing a nap. I was headed home for Christmas, and I was missing the wife and son.

I mentioned to someone that I was headed to Philly, and they replyed "I'm going the same way...let's go!!". We hit the road, and were almost the only vehicles out on the road. We started swapping stories about Family, our dogs, and our experiences on the road.

Little by little, we found ourselves in a big, and growing line of trucks. As each driver joined the line, they would introduce themselves, and join in the conversation. Now this next part might be hard to believe, but for the next 4 hours straight, the CB was like a great town hall. Everybody was being polite. Nobody was talking out of line. It was truly like a scene right out of "The Old Days". The night was something hardly any newbie will ever see....about 35 trucks in a row, running in a straight line, and all talking like complete gentlemen.

It was a sight that would put a lump in the throat of any old timer. I remember those types of nights when I rode with my dad now and then. It was a very distant memory, but here it was, happening right in front of me. It was a great example of what a good bunch of people truckers can be.

Then the jokes started. Every one of them clean enough to tell your children, but still very funny. The miles just flew by. Next thing I knew, My exit was coming up, to turn south onto the Northeast Extension of the PA. Pike. I was feeling so good about myself and all my trucking comrads. This would be a night that I would remember forever. Then.....you knew it couldn't last....some idiot going the other way comes out with the run-of-the-mill CB trash. Some filthy joke that was as flat out stupid as it was profane. It was a rude end to a wonderful night. That bunch of truckers that night got me home a lot sooner, making the miles seem shorter. I'm just glad I had the CB on that night, so I could be part of it all. I will not let the one jerk who ended the nice memory ruin the memory itself. And I will not let people like him keep me from having a night like that in the future.

Keep the radio on, and speak only to the good people out there. Don't let the trash mouths chase you off the radio. Let the voice of reason be the loudest voice out there.

[Big_Dave]

With as much trash that's on the radio these days, I keep mine turned down to the point that I can't hear it.

If I happen to see the needle jumping around as I enter the outskirts of a city, I'll turn it up just long enough to find out if there's a wreck or something.

Other than that, I got the XM cookin' out classic country gold. :cool: :cheers:

Ignore the cb until you need it to check in somewhere or run across a friend on the road. :cool:

Works real well for me. ;)

yeah i will have to say even in my pick truck i run a c.b and if foul trashy lanague i feel like throwing it out the window. I just aquired my dads rig and i will feel the same way espicaly when i will have my girlfriend in the cab if someone has to sware on the air while talking to me i tell them to clean up there mouth

[Preacher]

As both a preacher and a trucker I get a little sad about the language some people use on the C.B. I have a hard time thinking that some people out there have such darkness in their hearts. When I hear someone really using foul language on the radio, I just start preaching to them about how Jesus died even for them, and how He loves them so much that He really wants to get to know them. That sometimes gets them to shut-up! :D

[Hillbilly]

Jimbo, I can remember a few nights like that, myself. And I'll have to admit that they are few and far between. But, every once in a while, you'll run up on a small group of driver's that are not under the mistaken assumptiion, that you have to be vulgar to be COOL, or are old enough(in terms of maturity), to not be habitually trashy.

[Jimbo]

Exactly!! The few days that you have like that are a good payback for the trashy days you need to put up with most days.

[Foxfire]

I remember those days very well Jimbo. I still have my CB in the pickup and when traveling I talk on it just like I always have. While I can use bad language if I am talking to you in person, I refuse to use it on the CB. There are people out there with their families with them. I have always been that way. BUT, I can give 'em a real cussin out without using a single curse word. Then too I can talk over them until they give up. And, NO, I don't have those bells and whistles on my radio. I just happen to know how to use it to my best advantage. I don't like the echo, reverb, and roger beeps, etc.
Ladies, you can act like a lady and just ignore those jerks with the bad attitudes. They will give up and go away eventually. And you will be surprised how many of the good guys will come to your defense if you tell them what a poor unloved little boy they are.

I don't mind having the CB on, although, I am careful about it.
I can generally talk to about anyone, and if they start getting out of line, I simply tell them they need to knock it off. I usually have kids in the vehicle with me, and for the most part, I don't have a problem.
And usually if anyone does cause a problem, it's not long before a respectable guy tells them to cut it out!

i a'm as guilty as the other driver my cussing and swaring like a drunken sailor but most of the time it's ware some one is downing the military, our fighting men and women,or complaining about the government when they don't want to take the time to vote. and when they bad mouth the truckers that put there lives on the line each and every day to braing in a load

[Bikerboy]

You americans sure must have alot of troubles with the CB! Here in ontario everyone usually talks nice. I run the 401 out of Toronto every night and never hear anything too crazy. Most of the time the radio is quiet. Probably 80% of the trucks on the 401 will have there radio turned on and listening. Cuz i have talked to alot of different trucks, and most times they answer back.

Maybe the american trucking companys hire tooo many morons!

I have heard alot of good stuff on the radio, like anytime there a crash up ahead , i hear which lane to get into and if i should get off and go around it. I couldn't imagine driving without a CB on all the time. I wouldn't know what was going on, and i would be just as stupid as all those 4wheelers.

I laugh when theres a crash ahead blocking the road , and i get off at the exit before, and all the 4 wheelers and truckers without cb keep going and get caught in the big backup.


I witnessed what happens when a driver doesn't listen to his CB, there was a crash blocking left lane one night, and everyone was saying on Cb to get into right lane. So most people were in right lane doing about 70 km/h. Then all these idiot 4 wheelers and stupid trucks go blasting past in the left lane( this lane is blocked ahead by cars parked in this lane)

One truck plowed right into the parked cars! This could have been avoided if he had his CB on like everyone else!

[sidecar]

iron eagle wrote:

yeah i will have to say even in my pick truck i run a c.b and if foul trashy lanague i feel like throwing it out the window. I just aquired my dads rig and i will feel the same way espicaly when i will have my girlfriend in the cab if someone has to sware on the air while talking to me i tell them to clean up there mouth


iron eagle wrote:

i a'm as guilty as the other driver my cussing and swaring like a drunken sailor but most of the time it's ware some one is downing the military, our fighting men and women,or complaining about the government when they don't want to take the time to vote. and when they bad mouth the truckers that put there lives on the line each and every day to braing in a load
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lee craig the ironeagle


okay,i am confused now.let me guess,your real name is not lee craig.....it's john kerry :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

iron eagle wrote:

yeah i will have to say even in my pick truck i run a c.b and if foul trashy lanague i feel like throwing it out the window. I just aquired my dads rig and i will feel the same way espicaly when i will have my girlfriend in the cab if someone has to sware on the air while talking to me i tell them to clean up there mouth


iron eagle wrote:

i a'm as guilty as the other driver my cussing and swaring like a drunken sailor but most of the time it's ware some one is downing the military, our fighting men and women,or complaining about the government when they don't want to take the time to vote. and when they bad mouth the truckers that put there lives on the line each and every day to braing in a load
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lee craig the ironeagle


okay,i am confused now.let me guess,your real name is not lee craig.....it's john kerry :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

don't insult me by mentioning my name with that liing son of a itch that rimes with witch and futher more i will defently get a lounch code and fir on dip *hit kerry a panty waste iberal wack job/ cry babby retard

[Uncle Fester]

Maybe the american trucking companys hire tooo many morons!

Would someone please explain this inferority complex that canadian drivers seem to have?

Does anyone know why America has morons and the Canadians have Quebec?
AMERICA HAD FIRST PICK! :harhar:

I too get a little frustrated with the CB and opt to turn it off most of the time. My particular irk is when you try to inform those heading into a traffic jam of their upcoming delay, where it starts, a brief synopsis of the situation etc, invariably some idiot will ask:
"Uh, well how the &$%^k are we supposed to get around it?"
Well driver, I don't know how to get around that mess, I'm not from around here.
"Uh, well if you don't know, you shouldn't have said nuthin' 'bout it"

What logic!

I also get a little laugh out of ladies DARING to key-up around a truck stop and the airwaves light up:
"Uh, where's that babydoll at, where you at babydoll, hey babydoll, go to channel 25"
All she asked was the name of the town the truckstop was located in...

My PERSONAL favorites are those poor, sad souls who broadcast to the ENTIRE WORLD that they don't posses the social skills required to get a date and therefore must resort to a straight cash transaction by asking the question:
"Uh, where's all the commercial?"

Then there is the obligitory "radio fight" where the protagonists threaten and intimidate each other with promises of grevious injuries when truth be told, it's probably just two fat, out of shape, 2-pack per day freight haulers who would probably die from a stress-related heart attack before a blow was ever landed by either party.

Add to this mix the "Professor" who has done everything, seen everything, experienced everything, knows everything and is all too willing to instruct you, ad nasum as to every minute detail of what you're doing wrong, how you need to think, what kind of radio you need to get but nomatter WHAT you have, he has one just a little bit better.
If you have a Cobra 29, he has a cobra 30.
If you have a 747, he has a 748.
If you have a .44 magnum, the Professor has a .45 magnum that can't be traced.

Need psyco-therapy? No Problem! Listen to your CB long enough and just like watching Springer, your particular problem is bound to be discussed in great detail by other drivers who have ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA that there are 38 other channels (not counting sideband) with which they could have some privacy.
But nope, these dopes insist on sharing their life stories with everyone, regardless of us wanting to hear them or not.
The simple answer here is, whatever the problem, do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the storyteller tells you he did and things will probably come out a-okay.

Then there's the "truckers lexicon" of euphamisims, but we'll save that for another time. :type: [/quote]

[Bikerboy]

I'm just saying that when i run the highways in Ontario Canada, i never have to shut the CB off cuz stupid people talking.
Everyone on the CB around here is polite and will gladly help other drivers out.
I have heard a few american drivers say how they can't believe how polite and quiet the airwaves are around here.
Sometimes you might here a few idiots talking $hit near a truckstop, but thats about all.

[Crystal Pistol]

I hear it a lot too, especially at night.

When working midnight shift, I'll often have "Hank's Place" going ... but every now and then ... I'll hear a decent conversation going ... and I'll join in and turn "Hank's Place" down a bit. I have been known to drive most the way across the adjoining county (we are assigned by county, but that's so we don't get caught up in different courts in different counties, and it keeps us reasonably close to calls) at times talking along with them. Drivers are talking shop or about resturants or cars or whatnot, maybe even giving some poor smokey hell about something last month in AR. or MI., whatever ... but talking in a polite way, making intelligent conversation or simply remeniscing (spl?) .

Sometimes when a lady's voice is heard, it's like a pool of sharks getting blood fever. Sometimes, she invites it and plays along, and other times she quickly goes quiet and nothing is heard from her again.
Sometimes the conversation goes on as if she is just "one oof the guys".

Back in "the day", the decent conversation were a lot more common I think, drivers very rarely ever jumped down their fellow driovers throat over some stray comment taken out of text. Now, so many seem to try and antagonize their fellow drivers just to stir the pot.

I suppose it keeps a few of them awake. :chug:

[tumble weed]

I may have to agree with, Bikerboy. I take a load into Canada every few months, and the atmosphere on the radio, is a lot different. Being a female driver, like myself, it is comforting, having a nice converstion with a fellow driver.

[Mr. McFeely]

I have heard a few american drivers say how they can't believe how polite and quiet the airwaves are around here.
Agreed here, too. The Canadians were also very hospitable towards me on some trips I made to Ontario last year. I was pleasantly surprised.

As to Canuck musings on forums re: Americans and our way of life... well, that's another thread. :D