#cb-radio
78 words tagged “cb-radio”
Running with an empty trailer — moving freight-less miles you don't get paid for.
The extra decorative marker lights bolted all over a show truck.
A speed-radar trap set up by the cops.
CB operator using illegally modified out-of-band frequencies.
The grass median strip between highway lanes.
Acknowledged. Got it. Message received.
Duct tape doing the job a bodyshop should.
A Peterbilt truck — the chrome-laden status symbol of long-haul trucking.
Cop car — named for the spinning dome lights on top.
A deer on the road — alive, dead, or about to be a hood ornament.
Diesel — what makes the big iron move.
A state trooper, named for the hat that looks like Smokey Bear's.
Changing gears in a heavy truck without using the clutch.
A small-town or city cop.
A highway rest area — often with a cruising reputation.
A cop who's listening to the CB channel.
A motorcyclist riding without a helmet.
Emergency traffic — everyone else shut up and clear the channel.
Asking permission to cut in on a CB channel.
A truck-stop diner with food that earns the name.
An operator with a weak, muddy signal you can barely make out.
Cash, or money for tolls and fines.
A state trooper — the apex predator of the highway.
No. The CB radio way of saying it.
A rest area — somewhere to crash out legally.
Old-school CB term for a fellow trucker — but the meaning flipped.
A female police officer.
An unmarked police car.
Listening to the CB without saying anything.
A driver running a chromed-out show truck — often the kind that hauls live poultry.
A classic long-hood conventional semi — the kind that takes up real estate.
A truck riding safely tucked between the lead and tail of a convoy.
The lead truck in a convoy scouting for cops ahead.
A traffic ticket — useless paper to frame on your wall.
A motorcycle cop.
Blowing past an open weigh station without pulling in — illegal and risky.
Your on-air nickname on the CB — never your real name.
Any non-truck passenger vehicle — a regular car.
Loud and clear — a signal coming in perfect.
An attractive woman in a passing car.