CB language
Front door, rocking chair, plain brown wrapper. Do truckers still talk like that?
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Not really.. I'm a truck driver and we rarely use the CB anymore.. You have to consider that back in the 70's, truckers only had each other to communicate with which made the industry much more fraternal. Today we have cellphones and Bluetooth so we can keep in touch with friends and family back home while driving which is better than talking to a stranger...
shareLast time I used a CB was the early 1990s, and most of the jargon had died out, by then. Except for weather checks, truckers were mostly using them to buy, sell, and trade: Buy hookers, sell drugs, and trade obscenities.
In the 70s and 80s though, it was a language all its own. Practically poetry; the best ratchet-jaws could string it together with rhythms and even rhymes, like top rappers.
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