12/01/2025
The Importance of a CB Radio — Especially in Winter
You can talk all day about apps, GPS, and whatever new gadget the megas hand out… but when the weather turns ugly, nothing — and I mean nothing — replaces a good old CB radio.
When that highway turns into a skating rink and the visibility drops to zero, a CB becomes the one tool that actually saves lives. Drivers warn each other miles before the “official alerts” even think about updating. You hear what’s happening in real time — not 20 minutes after the pile-up already happened.
A CB will tell you:
There’s black ice ahead.
Cars are in the ditch.
A jackknife just blocked both lanes.
Visibility is gone through the pass.
There’s a pile-up forming before you become part of it.
Apps don’t warn you. Dispatch doesn’t warn you.
OTHER DRIVERS warn you.
And you only hear them if you’re on the radio.
In the winter, the CB becomes the difference between rolling steady…
and becoming the next truck in the drone footage.
Old-school drivers didn’t carry a CB because it looked cool — they carried it because it was survival.
Today’s drivers skip it, and that’s why they drive straight into chaos blind.
You want fewer pile-ups?
You want fewer backup wrecks?
You want fewer “I didn’t know what was happening” excuses?
Turn the CB on. Listen. Talk. That’s trucking.
W.C.
West Coast Wayne
