Truckers have long been associated with Citizens Band (CB) radio. A section of the 11-meter amateur radio band was set aside by the FCC in 1958 as a poor man’s business radio band, and by the ...

With a range of approximately five miles, CB radios were popular with truck drivers in the 1970s and 1980s until mostly giving way to cellphones. See ISM band and personal radio services.

While CB radios are no longer the mainstream communication tool they once were, they can still be found easily in several areas. Many truck drivers rely heavily on CB radios to communicate with ...

CB radios, though around since the '40s, became popular in the '70s when Hollywood produced films glorifying the truck driver. Truckers used them to warn each other of traffic jams, “bears” a ...