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Trucker lingo flag town9/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Smokey: Law officer, particularly state police or highway patrolĪ friend asked me to give some guidance to the CB radio terms in the C.W. To say “What’s your handle?” is to ask another user for their CB nickname. ![]() Other CB users will refer to the user by this nickname. Handle: Nickname a CB user uses in CB transmissions. (See “Handle”)ĭrop/put the hammer down: Pressing the accelerator pedal to full speed May be succeeded by the channel number, indicating that anyone may acknowledge (“Breaker one-nine” refers to channel 19, the most widely used among truck drivers).Ĭlean and green: No police or obstructions aheadĬonvoy: Group of three or more truckers in a row, usually exceeding the speed limitĭriver: Polite form of address when you do not know someone’s on-the-air nickname. Can also be used to denote agreement (“That’s a big 10-4.”)ġ0-20 (more often simply “20”): Location, as in “My 20 is I-95 at exit 13.”īreaker: Telling other CB users that you’d like to start a transmission on a channel. Here’s a sample of what was considered cool twenty-five years before LOL, ROTFL, BRB and so on:ġ0-4: Affirmative. Some CB enthusiasts had high-power transmitters on their radios I knew several people with radios so powerful that keying the mike could make a nearby fluorescent tube light up even if it wasn’t connected to a fixture!Īfter about 1978, all the excitement was over and CB radios were as old-school and unhip as eight-track tape players, multiple gold chains, mullet haircuts and vinyl tops on automobiles.ĬB radios famously had their own lingo. He bought a broken microphone with a coiled cord, rolled up his windows in the Florida heat and drove around hoping to look cool. I worked with a guy who couldn’t afford air conditioning for his car, when cars often didn’t come with it as standard equipment, or a CB radio. Some valuable info, like traffic jams, closed roads, speed traps or other things to avoid, was sometimes provided. Much of the CB radio traffic had to do with highway travel and avoiding police while speeding. ![]() Very important was your CB radio name, or “handle.” Much thought was given to this important item, much like screen names today. Here’s The Bandit as played by Burt Reynolds: Anything had to be said in a fake Arkansas accent if at all possible. Then the hipster had to learn how to talk on the thing, which was an art form. McCall song, Convoy, and certainly spurred by the Smokey and the Bandit movies, folks all over had these radios installed under their car’s dash and sent in their coupon to the U.S. They were hugely popular in that time before the internet and cell phones. Many of the folks tweeting around now may not remember how hip Citizen’s Band radios were in the United States around 1976-1978. Who really cares what you’re ordering at the coffee shop? I tried it for, I believe, three days. Sligh said his shoulder was dislocated in the drop into the water, and he found himself “belly deep in water in the truck.” He said he popped his shoulder back in and called out to his wife, who he described as being in shock initially as they waited for rescuers to arrive in boats.I suspect so it seems kinda goofy, too hip by half and annoying. The other man was reported in stable condition at United General Hospital in Sedro-Woolley, hospital CEO Greg Reed said. Sligh and his wife were taken to Skagit Valley Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. “We don’t think anyone else went into the water,” said Marcus Deyerin, a spokesman for the Northwest Washington Incident Management Team. They were injured, but miraculously, authorities said it appeared nobody was killed in the bridge failure that raised the question about the safety of aging spans and cut off the main route between Seattle and Canada. Sligh, his wife and another man in a different vehicle were dumped into the chilly waters of the Skagit River. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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