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Citizens Band Radio and Truck Driving
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This segment of WQED Weekly features footage of truck drivers on the highway and a song about truck driving with a citizens band radio (CB) radio. A truck driver talks about how CB radios help truck drivers communicate with one another and avoid speeding tickets. A Pennsylvania State Trooper explains how traffic stop tactics have changed to continue to catch speeding truck drivers.
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Citizens Band Radio and Truck Driving
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This segment of WQED Weekly features footage of truck drivers on the highway and a song about truck driving with a citizens band radio (CB) radio. A truck driver talks about how CB radios help truck drivers communicate with one another and avoid speeding tickets. A Pennsylvania State Trooper explains how traffic stop tactics have changed to continue to catch speeding truck drivers.
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How about it out there?
18 wheelers.
Any youth truck drivers away?
Uh 10-4 there darling right back at you.
What's your handle, honey?
This is Lonesome Lover baby.
Who am I talking to?
Breaker, breaker.
Smoke is going on a four Wheeler northbound on 65.
Just past, Shelby Street.
exit there boy.
Smokey is out there everywhere.
But I got ears, and I don't care.
And, I'm really making time.
You won't catch me running late back road or interstate.
Since I got this CB radio of mine Nixon says be thrifty and drive a nifty 50.
But I've got hungry mouths to feed, rent paying mile my, the truckers life is do or die.
And besides, my baby is waking up for me.
The main reason for the CB is, the 55 mile speed limit.
That's one reason the bears are kept pretty hot over there.
Because they're the police.
We called on the bears for short And another thing is a conversation piece.
You can talk to your buddy.
If he's going on the one side, you're going on the other side.
You can ask him, you know how the weather is weather factor and another thing, a lot of people now got them and they help you out.
If he broke down, if he broke down, they come by, they pick you up.
You don't have to wait for the smokey to come to pick you up.
It helps you a time on the road because you can, you know, move.
You can do over 55.
And hope you don't get caught.
And if you do get caught and you then the radio didn't work.
You've been caught yet?
I've been caught twice with it.
You still out there Lonesome Lover?
10-4.
That was you out there in that 4-wheeler flirting with Smokey, wasnt it?
Negatory there baby.
Who am I talking to?
Um breaker breaker uh heads up out there truck drivers uh Smokeys got an 18-wheeler.
That boy must not have no CB radio in that truck.
I caught, figures hes down on Bluegrass Parkway just past the uh bars town rest area.
Smokeys got him one other boys, heads up trucking and threes on ya.
If you've been getting beat to death by rig the roads like it's been wrecked, get yourself an air seat and a CB radio.
If you've been watching tail lights flashing, eat diesel fumes from fools who grab like they've got a brother in the White House.
Get yourself a set of ears.
Join in on all the jokes and cheers that we send out the Smokey all the time.
Let us know just where are you all are up there behind that monkey bar so we can keep you posted all the time.
Well, the problems right now are the people escaping our radars and being able to know where we're at at all times.
Some of the tactics we've changed as far as reverting to hiding, using portable radars instead of sitting alongside the road as we did before.
Some of your truckers will escape because of their CB's if they're listening, but if they turn them off or daydreaming, they'll also get caught How about it out there.
Baby you lost your ears?
Negatory there Lonesome lover what your twenty?
Just pass that eggplant there.
Think Im gonna catch you in a minute.
Breaker Breaker.
Come on Breaker.
Well, it looks like the, the cotton pickers got your, also know about that Quickdraw set you on the other end up their sleeve, but, Quickdraw, what's your 20?
It's about four miles from S76 Truck stop there at exit 49.
Ill make you for a cup of coffee.
10-4, sounds good.
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