Around here they call the CB the "backup radio". It only gets turned on when the traffic backs up. Then you'll hear that it you had it turned on five minutes ago and heard the warnings you could have exited and gone around the backup.
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It assumes they can
navigate without a GPS. One-half (or more) aren’t willing to try (of those who can leave a planned route; not all are free to do so) as they’ve no practice, or — more likely — they’re incapable of LandNav using a Commercial Road Carrier Atlas they may or may not have.
Congenitally-incapable, for a huge number (percentage), also. This is a no-bull big group. They see no downside in waiting things out. (List of excuses bearing tenuous connection to reality).
Git ‘er dun ain’t on that list.
The stress of driving has a welcome break — to them — in a 20 to 240-minute backup.
I get passed in a 300-mile stretch by a half-dozen or more trucks
several times. They’re burning a lot of extra fuel to accelerate hard up the ramp multiple times, and aren’t arriving any sooner at their destination. But as they quickly tire of running speeds of which they’re not capable, this is a common result.
There’s now a class who turn the clock upside down to run hours others aren’t on the road in much number (sunrise to sunset describes most truck movement). Lowered stress besides higher chance of dark-induced problems. The trade-off of speed using high-beams no good past 35-mph in return for not having to judge high-volume road traffic.
This is not a group where training or gear instruction is any help. A third or more of all truck drivers, with the remainder unwilling to try.
The backup radio exists to tell them how long will be their unscheduled break. And to jam up the closing lanes to try to jump ahead of others. Schoolyard crap, not men cooperating to find best solution. Their shame and incompetence results in shoving and pushing to cheat in “getting ahead” not using info of what lane gets thru and immediately getting into that lane. This only makes the backup worse for everyone (before we get to how selfish are all car drivers; no exceptions).
Why having DSP in the RX portion is huge. Hearing that chatter from many miles away affords the opportunity to get around it. (The radio can hear it, but you can’t).
Better to stick with a barefoot Cobra 29 if DSP ain’t on the immediate-buy list. An amp just means talking to those you can hear. And that ain’t much or many while at speed.
The inner concentric ring of range (RX), versus the artificially-boosted (TX) outer range. Big ears trump loud voice. Where choices can be effectively-used.
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