There are over 1,840 highway Rest Areas in this country and over 40,000 Truck Stops....

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. CW McCall -

The song inspired the movie starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw and Earnest Borgnine.

Sorry to say, in my opinion one of the dumbest trucker movies of all time!

But yeah, the song and the subsequent movie sold a hell of a lot of CB's to the motoring public. I bought one myself! Installed it in a VW Rabbit I had.

I say the modern phones have had a hand in minimizing radio traffic because all the things you used to use the radio for can now be gotten in that one item, maybe two if you add a GPS.

I haven't needed to ask for "Local Information" in 20 years! Much less asked for someone's "20" or a "10-36".

The last time I had one mounted in a truck was over a decade ago and even then the traffic was spotty if not nonexistent. When you did hear someone talking it was either complete shite or two or three friends chatting away, and if they were smart they would move their conversation off the "Breaker Channel" (Ch. 19). It got to the point where I would ride down the road with the squelch turned up so I wouldn't hear anyone unless they were within a few hundred yards of me. Just too much nonsense.

I started driving OTR in 1987 and they were regularly used back then with lots of interesting and often funny traffic. I had one in the trucks I used to drive on Motor Racing up into the 2000's, but as time went on, it was turned on less and less. Then it turned into mostly nasty, pointless crap. So the only times I would turn it on was to find out what that holdup was or what was the best lane to be in, until I realized even that was pointless.

I haven't talked on regularly on a CB in, as I said, well over a decade.