Why Do You Need A CB?

This is a horrible accident, but in this situation, I'm not sure having a cb or not is relevant. I am only guessing, but this type of accident could have been due to driver inattention/distraction. If traffic was slowed or stopped due to an accident, the SWIFT driver would have seen tail lights/brake lights. No doubt, LEO would have had their lights on. I don't need to use my CB to know that I need to slow or stop ahead.

This is why. This accident happened yesterday on 70 at the Ohio/Indiana border. Traffic was stopped for another accident, this driver was still running 60mph right into the back of the stopped flatbed. The driver of the Swift truck died, the impact was so hard that it broke the kingpin on the flatbed driving the trailer into the truck and knocking the cab off the frame.

Get a cb, use it and pay attention while driving. This should never happen.

Don,

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You are on point. A CB is very useful, but would having one on have prevented this accident? Who knows what the driver was doing to cause him to slam into the back of the flatbed ahead of him. Were there skid marks indicating he even attempted to apply the brakes?

This should not have happened with or without a CB. We all come upon stopped or slowed traffic at least a couple times a week. If you are paying attention to the road ahead of you, you should be fine. If you need a CB to alert you to pay attention to the road ahead of you, find a new career. Often times, there are electronic signs along sides and above highways that warn of situations coming ahead to be cautious of, if drivers must have advanced warning to begin paying attention to the road rather than phone, radio, passenger, pets or whatever they deem more important than their actual job of driving.

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Don,

How have you been? Don't see much of you here on TT anymore. I followed your progress faithfully from beginning to now. Hope everything is going good for you. Keep safe in these trying times.

This is a horrible accident, but in this situation, I'm not sure having a cb or not is relevant. I am only guessing, but this type of accident could have been due to driver inattention/distraction. If traffic was slowed or stopped due to an accident, the SWIFT driver would have seen tail lights/brake lights. No doubt, LEO would have had their lights on. I don't need to use my CB to know that I need to slow or stop ahead.

This is why. This accident happened yesterday on 70 at the Ohio/Indiana border. Traffic was stopped for another accident, this driver was still running 60mph right into the back of the stopped flatbed. The driver of the Swift truck died, the impact was so hard that it broke the kingpin on the flatbed driving the trailer into the truck and knocking the cab off the frame.

Get a cb, use it and pay attention while driving. This should never happen.

You left one word out, Don:

"Yet"

This is a horrible accident, but in this situation, I'm not sure having a cb or not is relevant

Sure it is. You don't think that if that driver heard "Hey Swift, they're stopped up ahead of you!", he may have looked up from his phone in time to hit the brakes? Do you think that's possible?

No doubt, LEO would have had their lights on

Uh, not if the reason for stopped traffic is way up ahead, and the resulting backup stretches for miles.

I don't need to use my CB to know that I need to slow or stop ahead.

Until that one instance where a moments distraction is the difference between life and death.

but would having one on have prevented this accident?

No way of knowing. But one fact that is absolutely certain and undeniable: Having one on would not have hurt, and could have saved a life.

Exactly right, Turtle.

What if there was no backup?

What if there were only one vehicle stopped in each lane of travel?

What if the accident has just happened, and no rescue or emergency vehicles are on scene?

""Yet", what?

This is a horrible accident, but in this situation, I'm not sure having a cb or not is relevant. I am only guessing, but this type of accident could have been due to driver inattention/distraction. If traffic was slowed or stopped due to an accident, the SWIFT driver would have seen tail lights/brake lights. No doubt, LEO would have had their lights on. I don't need to use my CB to know that I need to slow or stop ahead.

This is why. This accident happened yesterday on 70 at the Ohio/Indiana border. Traffic was stopped for another accident, this driver was still running 60mph right into the back of the stopped flatbed. The driver of the Swift truck died, the impact was so hard that it broke the kingpin on the flatbed driving the trailer into the truck and knocking the cab off the frame.

Get a cb, use it and pay attention while driving. This should never happen.

You left one word out, Don:

"Yet"

""Yet", what?

This is a horrible accident, but in this situation, I'm not sure having a cb or not is relevant. I am only guessing, but this type of accident could have been due to driver inattention/distraction. If traffic was slowed or stopped due to an accident, the SWIFT driver would have seen tail lights/brake lights. No doubt, LEO would have had their lights on. I don't need to use my CB to know that I need to slow or stop ahead.

This is why. This accident happened yesterday on 70 at the Ohio/Indiana border. Traffic was stopped for another accident, this driver was still running 60mph right into the back of the stopped flatbed. The driver of the Swift truck died, the impact was so hard that it broke the kingpin on the flatbed driving the trailer into the truck and knocking the cab off the frame.

Get a cb, use it and pay attention while driving. This should never happen.

You left one word out, Don:

"Yet"

Yet....As in it hasn't happened to you, yet. Get some more experience and it will when you encounter some of your examples.

I had another good example of last night why you need a CB. Another flat better passed me who was hauling a load of landscaping rocks about the size of cantaloupes. One of the bags of rocks had broken open and there was a pile of rocks laying on the deck. I tried to reach him by the CB but he either didn't have one or he didn't have it turned on. I flashed my lights at him but he ignored it.

Packrat said that I should have called 911 and although I had thought about it at the time I was hesitant to get this other driver involved with law enforcement.

Had these rocks fallen off the deck and bounced down the road they could have easily gone through a windshield and killed someone.