Strangebrew My Dad just retired a few weeks ago. I still drive on occasion but it is not my day job! 99% of the time when I drive it is not a dry van it is a passenger's so CB radio kind of out of the question when they do have a radio it is a business band radio. I can only imagine what sort of companies you are working for and what they are leasing if you are not getting modern trucks with radio's built in. These must be really small fleets because it is getting harder and harder to get a stripped down truck and any company of any size is getting deals on what ever is available. That is like not having air conditioning or not having a AM/FM/CD! I am sure you can find that but it sure is not common. Are you working for a Union company?
TMS Transportation Management Software and digital tracking and communication hardware built into trucks has made it mostly obsolete from an industry stand point.
I am pretty sure that the FCC, most trucking companies, DOT and NTSB have rules about running a radio that is not a Part 95 compliant CB if you are not a licensed amateur radio operator. The second you put a radio inside the truck that is illegal you are already breaking rules and laws even if they are seldom enforced. So most of what Galaxy, Connex, General Lee, Anytone, Stryker etc....sell are not legal for us on 11m aka CB! Having an amp is a no no too but again not really enforced by law enforcement yet or most companies. An export radio that puts out more than 4 watts from the factory is still violating the rule of no amplifier since it is taking the place of an external amplifier by having a much more powerful rf deck built into the radio. Like a lot of small minded people you ignore the spirit of a law or rule when it benefits you. Once you site rules and laws then violate them yourself you have no leg to stand on intellectually! It has nothing to do with my opinion and everything to do with fact.
No professional truck driver that is not licensed for ham radio has any business operating most of the what Stryker, Galaxy, Connex, Antone, Magnum and the like inside their work vehicle because they are breaking the law. Just becasue you might own your truck does not mean you can do as you like if that was the case you could do cocaine inside of your truck or rape people inside the truck and trailer etc....That is not how things work though a motor vehicle in most states has very few constitutional protections compared to a house or your person especially while it is operating on public roads for hire! When you are at work you should be professional and above reproach not that most truck drivers I see on the road today are very professional they drive often like they are driving a 4 wheeler!
This might surprise you but even when you are doing things in a foreign country that might be legal in that country your own country can prosecute you for when you return! So if you go some place where sodomy of a minor is legal and partake of that then return to the USA you can be prosecuted when you return to the USA even if what you did was legal in the country you where in. Same thing applies to Maritime Law. The difference in Maritime Law though is that the craft is an extension of the Sovereign Nation it is registered in no such thing exists though when talking about vehicles operating on land. So while an owner operator might be able to purchase and install any radio he or she likes at no point does it make it legal to do so!
My point about the 2950 is not that it would make a better radio for a trucker that is not a amateur radio operator. My point is that at this point it is Old School and vintage for anyone with 2 or more functioning brain cells! At this point their is nothing modern about it. So for someone to think that the appearance of a say a Cobra 29 is the only "old school" or "Vintage" control lay out is an error was my only point. If you really want to get vintage most early CB's had tubes in them, crystals in them and often only had 3-9 channels even on bases. A lot of them had no chrome on them at all as well a lot of them had some very plain face plates and black or wood-grain vinyl etc...
Wow! Anyone that would spend hard earned money on a truck that is not their own and can be taken from them at any time is not a very smart person. They fact that people like this exist is not a good thing or a bad thing but no rational logical argument can be made for their decisions. It is not different than pointing out that a lack of impulse control and empathy exists in with in the inmate population of our prison system. No matter how you slice it and how true it is it is not a good a thing in any way!
It does not matter if people want an over powered CB's it is against the law. They are not getting around the FCC rules they are just breaking them. The fact that it is not enforced does not mean it is ok to do. When you are in your place of business you should always be professional and breaking the law is in no way professional. If someone wants to do this in their daily driver that is one thing but to do it in their work place is just wrong and no way to justify it.
Also since you are going to be operating on Interstates mostly as an OTR driver you do not need extra power to facilitate doing your job! In 2018 a radio is not about getting into a place or waiting to be told your next in line to unload it is about the radio's owner personal entertainment more than anything else. Every company worth working for gives you a fun today like they used to give out pager's. Most companies a lot of companies also dispatch and update right through Qualcom or similar systems.
If you want to just come out and say you like operating illegal radio's in your company truck just come out and say that because your argument is so full of holes as to be funny! You can never justify breaking federal laws in the daily function of transporting goods for sale! Once you do something illegal especially when it is not required you have no leg to stand on at all.
Again nothing that radio can do for you that a legal type approved radio could not also do with regard to driving a commercial vehicle for hire! This is 2018! Do not confuse your twisted logic and desire to do something that you know is illegal with being necessary!
TMS Transportation Management Software and digital tracking and communication hardware built into trucks has made it mostly obsolete from an industry stand point.
I am pretty sure that the FCC, most trucking companies, DOT and NTSB have rules about running a radio that is not a Part 95 compliant CB if you are not a licensed amateur radio operator. The second you put a radio inside the truck that is illegal you are already breaking rules and laws even if they are seldom enforced. So most of what Galaxy, Connex, General Lee, Anytone, Stryker etc....sell are not legal for us on 11m aka CB! Having an amp is a no no too but again not really enforced by law enforcement yet or most companies. An export radio that puts out more than 4 watts from the factory is still violating the rule of no amplifier since it is taking the place of an external amplifier by having a much more powerful rf deck built into the radio. Like a lot of small minded people you ignore the spirit of a law or rule when it benefits you. Once you site rules and laws then violate them yourself you have no leg to stand on intellectually! It has nothing to do with my opinion and everything to do with fact.
No professional truck driver that is not licensed for ham radio has any business operating most of the what Stryker, Galaxy, Connex, Antone, Magnum and the like inside their work vehicle because they are breaking the law. Just becasue you might own your truck does not mean you can do as you like if that was the case you could do cocaine inside of your truck or rape people inside the truck and trailer etc....That is not how things work though a motor vehicle in most states has very few constitutional protections compared to a house or your person especially while it is operating on public roads for hire! When you are at work you should be professional and above reproach not that most truck drivers I see on the road today are very professional they drive often like they are driving a 4 wheeler!
This might surprise you but even when you are doing things in a foreign country that might be legal in that country your own country can prosecute you for when you return! So if you go some place where sodomy of a minor is legal and partake of that then return to the USA you can be prosecuted when you return to the USA even if what you did was legal in the country you where in. Same thing applies to Maritime Law. The difference in Maritime Law though is that the craft is an extension of the Sovereign Nation it is registered in no such thing exists though when talking about vehicles operating on land. So while an owner operator might be able to purchase and install any radio he or she likes at no point does it make it legal to do so!
My point about the 2950 is not that it would make a better radio for a trucker that is not a amateur radio operator. My point is that at this point it is Old School and vintage for anyone with 2 or more functioning brain cells! At this point their is nothing modern about it. So for someone to think that the appearance of a say a Cobra 29 is the only "old school" or "Vintage" control lay out is an error was my only point. If you really want to get vintage most early CB's had tubes in them, crystals in them and often only had 3-9 channels even on bases. A lot of them had no chrome on them at all as well a lot of them had some very plain face plates and black or wood-grain vinyl etc...
Wow! Anyone that would spend hard earned money on a truck that is not their own and can be taken from them at any time is not a very smart person. They fact that people like this exist is not a good thing or a bad thing but no rational logical argument can be made for their decisions. It is not different than pointing out that a lack of impulse control and empathy exists in with in the inmate population of our prison system. No matter how you slice it and how true it is it is not a good a thing in any way!
It does not matter if people want an over powered CB's it is against the law. They are not getting around the FCC rules they are just breaking them. The fact that it is not enforced does not mean it is ok to do. When you are in your place of business you should always be professional and breaking the law is in no way professional. If someone wants to do this in their daily driver that is one thing but to do it in their work place is just wrong and no way to justify it.
Also since you are going to be operating on Interstates mostly as an OTR driver you do not need extra power to facilitate doing your job! In 2018 a radio is not about getting into a place or waiting to be told your next in line to unload it is about the radio's owner personal entertainment more than anything else. Every company worth working for gives you a fun today like they used to give out pager's. Most companies a lot of companies also dispatch and update right through Qualcom or similar systems.
If you want to just come out and say you like operating illegal radio's in your company truck just come out and say that because your argument is so full of holes as to be funny! You can never justify breaking federal laws in the daily function of transporting goods for sale! Once you do something illegal especially when it is not required you have no leg to stand on at all.
Again nothing that radio can do for you that a legal type approved radio could not also do with regard to driving a commercial vehicle for hire! This is 2018! Do not confuse your twisted logic and desire to do something that you know is illegal with being necessary!
