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Overdrive Radio

The long tail of the CB's social utility

Owner-operator Mike Crawford in this Overdrive Radio edition expands on some of the themes showcased earlier this week in our special-edition podcast in part about the ongoing safety utility, and the decreased cultural importance, of the CB in trucking.

February 26, 2021

Mike Crawford sitting in a truck stop booth

Overdrive Radio

Listen: The Channel One-Nine Special from ‘Over the Road’ — CB handles

The Channel One Nine Special is a special series for Over the Road podcast listeners. This week we discuss CB handles with Mike "Mustang" Crawford.

February 27, 2020

New book chronicles the pop rise and fall of the ‘first electronic social network’

From the “slanguage” used by truckers and others over the radio to the role of truckers in the CB’s popularity growth in the 1970s, Missouri writer and academic Tim Scherrer’s new book is the culmination of 23 years of research in 296 pages, with 44 illustrations and more than 200 sources.

May 16, 2019

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Can I get a radio check?

CB fouls turned into great illustrations of its proper use in two convoys over the weekend in Joplin, including a hundred-mile, 14-driver/truck video shoot “in the regular flow of traffic that came off like it was butter.”

September 26, 2016

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Overdrive Extra

Rearview: Tool of the trade

Befitting the CB’s repute of the era, Overdrive each month in the late 1970s published an entire section devoted to CBs, associated equipment, articles about truckers using CBs to chase on-the-run criminals and more.

May 4, 2016

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From the outside in: ‘Keep on Truckin’

If you’ve got time, give the Pacific Standard’s “Keep on Truckin'” package of features published this week a look for a point of view on trucking from the outside in.

February 6, 2016

Catch electronic musicians (and apparent CB enthusiasts) Quintron and Miss PussyCat’s soundscape contribution to Pacific Standard’s package at the head of the Music to Truck By playlist at the bottom of this post. Click through the image above to read more about it PSMag.com.

Is that you, Bill?

“Break one nine, this here’s The Scribe. You got a Care Bear lookin for ya at the 132, he’s got a portable barnyard and a baaad attitude, come on.” That’s me, in my dreams, being all fluent and cool on the CB. Reality would be more like, “Hey guys, there’s a DOT cop back there […]

January 22, 2016

Meteor showers and the return of the CB

“I’m pretty sure there’s a distinct possibility we were abducted by aliens the other night. At least that’s how the story would go if I were telling it at the Counter of Knowledge. …”

November 22, 2015

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‘Insist on the good’ to boost camaraderie

“Pick up the [CB] mic and add some good,” says a reader. “Insist on it. … Because this is how it works. Either you shun the crap or you bury it with some goodness.”

June 2, 2015

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What’s your CB handle and how’d you get it?

Find several operators’ anecdotes about how they got their handles here.

March 28, 2015

Kick the tires of CB World’s CB handle generator via this link.

Crash that shut down I-95 charged to four-wheeler; more vids from Chris Fiffie

“Every once in a while they get it right in the end,” says a reader. Also: new Rolling CB Interviews from Chris Fiffie in our updated playlist.

March 12, 2015

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Fleecing the importance of real clothes

“What you do inside your truck is your business. There’s a reason ‘I ain’t got no panties on’ is still whispered lasciviously on the CB. It’s probably true.” Once you get out of it, it’s a different story…

January 21, 2015

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