CB (Citizens Band) radios remain a relevant part of trucking culture. CB radio can trace its roots back to 1958 when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) established the Citizens Radio ...

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.

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt ... So he offered the “PocketCom CB” which was billed as the “world’s smallest citizens band ...