#trucker
79 words tagged “trucker”
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.
Drop one trailer, hook another, keep moving.
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.
Loudmouth who won't shut up on the channel.
A driver who runs livestock — cattle, hogs, sheep — in a slatted trailer.
A driver hauling explosives or other dangerously volatile freight.
The return leg of a trip — heading back the way you came.
Getting a ticket — or speeding hard enough you're about to.
A prostitute working the truck-stop lots.
A radar detector — sniffs out cops the way a bird-dog sniffs out game.
A refrigerated trailer — the kind that hauls frozen and chilled freight.
A county sheriff or deputy.
The police station — where the bears den up.
55 miles per hour.
A highway mile marker post.
An International Harvester truck.
A speeding four-wheeler ahead of you who'll get pulled over first.
An illegal linear amplifier that boosts a CB radio way past legal power.
A semi-truck driving with no trailer attached — just the tractor unit on its own.
A cop watching traffic from a plane or chopper.
Pit stop — pulling over for a bathroom break.
Your location. "What's your 20?" = where are you?
An engine compression brake that lets a diesel slow itself with a loud rapid-fire bark.
Are you listening to the CB right now?
Out of legal driving hours under HOS rules.
A Freightliner tractor.
Any cop, on or off the highway.
A speeding ticket handed out by the cops.
Truck weigh station — where the rigs get penned up and checked.
An auto-transporter — the truck that hauls a stack of cars.
A male cop, or a senior officer on the road.
A Kenworth tractor.
The fast lane / passing lane on a highway.
A rookie cop, fresh out of the academy.
A flatbed trailer with its load tarped down.
Floor it — pedal to the metal, full speed.
Best wishes — the CB sign-off.
A cop holding a radar gun like a camera.
Pulled over and ticketed by a cop.
The rear truck in a convoy watching for cops coming up behind.
I heard you and understood the message.