As I write this, Southern California is on fire. More than 600,000 acres have burned with no containment in sight. The skies are full of smoke, the ground is covered in ash, and in the midst of this ...

Citizen band radio, more commonly known as CB radio, was first developed in 1945, but took a while to reach the truck-driving masses. By 1958, the FCC had established the first regulations and 23 ...

Q: Do over-the-road truck drivers still like to use CB (citizens band) radios to communicate? What is the longest running show on a radio network? Answer to Wednesday’s trivia: How do you get child ...

A. That’s affirmative, Bubba (fellow driver), it’s a 10-4 (OK) for a bedbugger (household moving company) or other big truck (semi) to use a radio (CB) on the big road (interstate) or elsewhere. He ...

Don’t you ever wish that you could talk to the drivers in the vehicles in the immediate area? Maybe you want to warn them about a speed trap, tell them about a danger on the road, or just have a voice ...

This time of year, it's long been something of a clarion call among truckers to their fellow drivers to work together to help prevent the kinds of pileups seen in recent weeks for instance on I-35W in ...

Summer is the season for family road trips here in the US, and my family took to the open road in a big way this year. We pulled off a cross-country relocation, from Connecticut to Idaho. Five days on ...

Decades ago, David Siesholtz repaired televisions and stereos almost as frequently as he repaired citizens band radios, not only for truckers, but for hobbyists too. But changing times and technology ...

The makers of TruckChat say their phone app is "like having a free digital CB," but does it live up to that claim? "Yes and no," says TeleType Chief Developer Edward Friedman. "The CB radio has a very ...

Trail communication is key, whether your spotter is telling you where to put your tires or when you are trying to reach base camp to tell them you are upside-down. That is why we require a Citizens ...

"Mastersergeantangry" has a chat room on wheels. No Internet connection required. Through the citizens band radio in his truck, his ears are always on. Known outside radio circles as John Appel, the ...

It’s hard for me to believe, but it has been 40 years ago today that “Convoy,” by C.W. McCall, was the number one song on the U.S. pop charts. Citizen’s Band radios were flying off the shelves and ...