I usually travel on channel 18 which is the caravanner's channel and have it displayed on the back of my van, recently on a couple of occasions whilst travelling at around 90 kph I have had big trucks sitting close behind me and have called them up to talk about passing but got no response.
Can someone please let me know what channels trucks use on the open road.
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Tell the truckies to let you know when they are ready to pass but do not slow down drastically as they just have to get their power up again to pass you. Flick your lights to let them know when safe for them to pull back to correct side of road & they are fully past your vehicle. The majority of them will acknowledge with a flick of their lights. After all they are trying to earn a $.
Thanks for the advice I will switch to Roaming between 40 and 18 and the majority do say thanks with their indicators if you let them know when its safe to pull back in and it also reduces the risk to your vehicle.
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I scan 5, 11,18, 22, 29, 35 & 40. Talk to truckies on 29 or 40 and the odd traveller on 18.
What annoys me the most is the people that abuse 5&35 (Emergency Channels) and the companies that use 11 (Call Channel) also the drop kicks that abuse 40 mainly in the big Towns and the Cities.
It was all much better 40 odd years ago when I had to hide my CB when the RI's were snooping around. It was even worse if I was in the middle of a "Skip".
We are lucky though really cos we don't need or have to pay for a UHF licence.
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I scan 5, 11,18, 22, 29, 35 & 40. Talk to truckies on 29 or 40 and the odd traveller on 18.
What annoys me the most is the people that abuse 5&35 (Emergency Channels) and the companies that use 11 (Call Channel) also the drop kicks that abuse 40 mainly in the big Towns and the Cities.
It was all much better 40 odd years ago when I had to hide my CB when the RI's were snooping around. It was even worse if I was in the middle of a "Skip".
We are lucky though really cos we don't need or have to pay for a UHF licence.
Now you're bringing back some great memories Doug,
How well I remember working "Skip" I think the best skip I ever latched onto was on an old 18ch A.M. set way back in the mid 70's
I was sitting in my old E.J.Holden when I picked up this strong Yankee voice, I did a "Breaker" on him and started to talk, "Boy" did I get a surprise when I ask his location, ( or 1020 ) he answered ..... I'm Mobile in Southern California in the U.S.of A, driving an 18 wheeler, Where are you Boy, "Come-on!!!
It took me another 10 min to convince him that I was in Aussie.
Not bad contact, for a standard C.B. set which only poked out 2w on a standard 1/2 D.B. gain antenna
K.J.
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some 25 years ago this month I was doing a trip with some mates in 4x4s most of us had arrived in Broken hill and we had one bloke missing so I called him up on agreed channel and got an answer and when i asked where he was he said approaching the Sydney Harbour Bridge again had some difficulty convincing him where I was and obviously not the mate I was trying to call who arrived while I was talking to the other guy with excellent clarity.
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Sorry AT but we seem to be hijacking your thread a little here.
KJ, after being trained in Caulfield, Melbourne I set up and ran "Westerport Crest" (Citizens Radio Emergency Service Team) (those days, channel 9) in Tyabb near Hastings, Victoria, Westernport Bay area. I ran that for 6 years until my first daughter arrived in the world. I have great memories of the "old" CB radio days.
Keep talking to those truckies AT.
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Yes the old 27 MHz was good and funnily enough I felt safer on the roads with that, with the combination of AM and SSB, than UHF.
Idiots were there as much as on UHF now.
As for UHF I just dislike caravaners who display ch 18 & 40 on the van but don't respond to calls. Worse are vanners who have UHF and don't turn it on.
-- Edited by cultana on Saturday 7th of June 2014 07:21:34 PM
