CB's

[petrolhead]

I watched "THE VAN" the other day(thanks again griff) and it brought back some memories being out on a cruise/run, yacking on the CB, what with the van sceen seeming to be coming full circle will CB"s do the same? Lots of fun on a run, do you still own one? Maybe those that are intrested should get together and do a group buy,cheaper for cash

[Bedfordcrazy]

I have a cb in my van, or will have, its in the box in the workshop, waiting. Problem is everyone uses a mobile phn these days.

george.

[ben]

tell me why is it legal to use a cb radio while driving and illegal to use a hand held mobile huh?

[Warren]

Ben

Historically CB radio was used as a cheap alternative to two way radio and it was used for simple communications of instructions, location, road hazzard etc. It was not used much for chat.

Recent studys of Mobile phone use while driving have shown that it is not so much the use of the phone that is dangerous, but the emotional state that the mobile user can get into. It was found that people tend to get emtionally envolved in the conversations and loose concentration on the task at hand "DRIVING".

Just as deep tiredness has been proven to be as bad as drink driving, so has the lack of concentration been found to be similar to drink driving.

I remember a car accident on the south gippsland highway quite a few years ago, on TV they interviewed the mother of the dirver who was killed, the mother said "yes she heard it all (the collision) as she was talking to him on his mobile at the time" and I remeber at the time thinking that that conversation most likely killed him.

I have worked in the mobile phone environment for over 20 years and I seldom talk on the phone while driving, and if I do I conciously pay more attention to driving, and I will stop half way through a convo if the driving conditions require, things like going through or turning at intersections.

I always use a hends free device, and never attempt to dial while moving, but mostly I just pull up and talk - its so much safer.

Warren 


       

 

[Warren]

One more thing, have a look at people driving and using a phone, look at how they have touble turning corners etc with just one hand.

Uuuugh it makes me cringe.

Warren

[Bedfordcrazy]

As someone who was there during the cb craze, you mainly listened to the cb as apposed to long chats. The problem is most numbskulls today can not do 2 things at once, talk on the phn and drive, my wife being one, she has enough trouble just driving, man she is one shocker of a driver, scares the geebees out of me.
As for the cbs, i remember back in the 70s they were trying to enforce the licences, i had a base station in the house, and one in the car, and back then they would have someone driving around in a van trying to detect illegal cb operators. They soon found the the cb fraternity was bigger and more organised then they thought and soon scrapped the licence. It all came to a head on razorback mountain, when greendog morgan and a 1000 truckers blockaded the state, they used the cb to organise one of the greatest trucker revolts since convoy, an awesome time to be around, truckers, cbs and custom vans, miss those days.
One more thing, cbs then were what pcs are now, i remember getting home from work and would jump on the base station for hrs and chat up the YLs, look for the plain wrapper, remember 10/100,  mmm they were the days.
I wonder why they still have not made a movie about greendog and razorback, we had a couple of actors that would of been the perfect look for greendog.

george.

[Mark B]

I keep a handheld (with a handpiece speaker/mic) in the beddy..it's great for when your in a convoy of cars, going camping, dirtbiking, or as a base station for when others go off.. and also for when your bored on long trips, chuck it on the truckie channel (11) and laugh at the truckies cursing and fowling lol  but, yeh i don't have an actual unit that goes in the cab..if there was to be  group buy - i would consider it for the new beast =) George, why don't you put a proposal in for that movie? Sounds exciting!

[Warren]

Ah George seems we were on similar paths, CB base and in my cars, but I was primarily into bikes, I did have a Morris Minor Van for a while though

Warren

[Bedfordcrazy]

Let me tell you, a movie would be awsome if they did the story true to the facts. I remember i was working for a furniture builder at the time of the blockade, and had my cb in the car, i was at work when it hit the fan, so i was sort of stuck and could not get home, so i got on the cb and was lucky to get onto some of the truckers i new, and they allowed me to get through the blockade, which pissed others off, because they saw me getting through.
To give you an idea of how i was into the cb thing, i had a HG kingswood with a single roof rack mounted over the B-pillar, and on that i had a set of twin trucker cb antennaes, and a couple of driving lights with a PA speaker mounted in the center of the roof rack, young and crazy but the girls loved it. When i passed through the blockade it was if i was driving through trucker heaven, the line of trucks just went on forever. Awesome, great memories. And 30yrs later i still have not grown up, take a look at my current truck.  And yes i have all the trucker movies on dvd. 

george.

[Bedfordcrazy]

As someone who was there during the cb craze, you mainly listened to the cb as apposed to long chats. The problem is most numbskulls today can not do 2 things at once, talk on the phn and drive, my wife being one, she has enough trouble just driving, man she is one shocker of a driver, scares the geebees out of me.
As for the cbs, i remember back in the 70s they were trying to enforce the licences, i had a base station in the house, and one in the car, and back then they would have someone driving around in a van trying to detect illegal cb operators. They soon found the the cb fraternity was bigger and more organised then they thought and soon scrapped the licence. It all came to a head on razorback mountain, when greendog stevens and a 1000 truckers blockaded the state, they used the cb to organise one of the greatest trucker revolts since convoy, an awesome time to be around, truckers, cbs and custom vans, miss those days.
One more thing, cbs then were what pcs are now, i remember getting home from work and would jump on the base station for hrs and chat up the YLs, look for the plain wrapper, remember 10/100,  mmm they were the days.
I wonder why they still have not made a movie about greendog and razorback, we had a couple of actors that would of been the perfect look for greendog.

george.