newmercman:
toby1234abc:
They are fluent in English,and would listen in to the conversations of using the wire and pulling the fuses,and be waiting down the road for the coffee money payment.This was in the 90`s.Except that English CBs run on FM frequency and French ones run on AM frequency, sorry Tobes, but that is a load of bollox
I used to run with 2 CB’s, a British one & a European one. Cab had more ‘Twig’s’ on It than a tree 
r slicker:
Was it the infamous pinnochio riding side saddle with his son
AHA! THAT was his name 
Been trying to think of that for about a week! Thank you so much mate.
I used to use a CB, but all mine ever seemed to pick up was bull ■■■ all the time so I gave up on it, back in the day there used to be a few people who could talk sense on the thing, but those days are long gone now, if the condoms are daft enough to believe anything they happen to over hear then more fool them, because they will be a bit disapointed when they pull over that SAS man who has just one hit it from Newcastle to Milan and is on his way back up only to find he is the wrong side of 18 stone with a belly the size of a pregnant hippo and the longest shift he has done in the months worth of records he is carrying is the one from Calais to Macon!!! 
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You met him too then Jim lol
toby1234abc:
I got a cb from Bristol truck stop,that could pick up anything,i once heard a converstation between two American truck drivers,while i was in Lisbon,Portugal,i was told it was possible due to bouncing off the clouds,or some technical word for it.
The American truckers were from the deep south of the Usa,judging from their accents.
I had a truck with the CB fitted & also used to talk to US truckers when I parked on one of the mountain tops in Portugal many years ago on the old roads. Maybe you got a clear shot across the Atlanic?
toby1234abc:
I got a cb from Bristol truck stop,that could pick up anything,i once heard a converstation between two American truck drivers,while i was in Lisbon,Portugal,i was told it was possible due to bouncing off the clouds,or some technical word for it.
The American truckers were from the deep south of the Usa,judging from their accents.
It’s called skip.
Are you trying to say that in all the years you’ve been driving and using a CB, you’ve never heard that term before ? It’s been known as skip ever since the phenomenon was discovered, even Ham Radio enthusiasts call it skip I understand. It isn’t a technical term, it’s the common parlance for the technical term, I’ve no idea what the technical term is though.
I can tell you it isn’t bouncing off clouds.
It is bouncing off a layer of the atmosphere (I can’t remember which layer) and it happens a lot more when the sun is going through an active period, as it is this year.
The ionosphere is the layer it bounces off.
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French ■■■■■■■■ put mine on the floor, chalked round it and said I mustn’t talk on it for 24 hrs and if I did, it restarted the clock…
DoYouMeanMe?:
French [zb] put mine on the floor, chalked round it and said I mustn’t talk on it for 24 hrs and if I did, it restarted the clock…
Funnily enough, it’s the opposite in Germany, when the BAG found out I didn’t have a CB, they put me in a hotel for the night.
Or am I thinking of something else? 
That is a cracker.