On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 01:52:43 -0500, Fox's Mercantile
wrote:

On 10/12/19 8:41 PM, wrote:
Apparently the big cities still have CB traffic. Probably
mostly truckers. But it sure ain't what it was in the 70s.

Thank God.

Since we are commenting on CB use. I too am glad all the kids and idiots
are gone on the CB Band. These days they're all on facebook instead.
I do tend to not understand what happened to all the truckers on the CB?
Channel 9 is really no longer needed. For emergencies, people can just
use their cellphone to call for help now. But truckers cant get instant
road conditions up ahead, or smokey reports on their phones. And you
cant talk to other truckers near you (unless you know all of them and
have their phone numbers). So for truckers or anyone on the road, the CB
still has a lot to offer. Not to mention its against the law to use a
cellphone while driving in many places now. But not the CB.

Two things I hope to never hear on the CB again are those annoying Roger
Beeps, and the echo mics. Neither served any purpose and just made the
CB hard to hear or worse.

One other benefit of CB was that a lot of times in the past, I'd just
talk on the CB to keep myself awake while driving late at night. And I
had a lot of interesting conversations, as well as finding out where the
truck stops are, where to get a good meal, and learning interesting
facts about the area I'm driving in.

I miss the good old days of CB. But not it's later days that partially
caused it's demise due to abuse. Then too, the internet has been on a
similar downward spiral. The early internet was both fun and useful.
These days its been taken over by that repulsive Facebook and if you
want anything useful, such as a repair manual, be prepared to give away
your identity to some crooks, and pull out your credit card. Or just
waste hours sorting thru all the bogus claims that say "FREE" manual or
whatever.