Let me start with something that might surprise you: I drove across I-80 last February during a whiteout blizzard that shut down half of Wyoming. Cell towers were overloaded, GPS was useless, and the only thing keeping me in the know was Channel 19 on my CB radio. A trucker ahead of me was calling out pile-ups, road closures, and which rest stops still had fuel. Without that CB, I would have been completely blind. That is why, in 2026, with smartphones in every pocket and satellite internet on the horizon, CB radios are still the backbone of trucker communication. They are free, they are instant, and they do not […]





