re: CB radios

I have them in all my farm trucks it’s easier to communicate with employees than calling their phone

I remember as a teen working for a big catfish farm operation that had dozens of employees. We would have a power outage and all the aerators would quit causing oxygen problems in the ponds. Hundreds of ponds and millions of pounds of fish anout to die and 30 minutes to get dozens of tractors with PTO aeration moved to the ponds to save them. Half the night workers were Mexicans who didn’t speak English, we had one translator. Those nights were a fricking cb radio show, everyone freaking out trying to coordinate things, guys going 90 mph in ford rangers on gravel roads, driving old Farmall 806s with no lights wide open across two counties on 10,000 acres of ponds at 4 am. In just one morning we had three wrecked trucks one of which ramped a ditch and hit a telephone pole 3/4 of the way up, another one caught the axle sticking out of the rear wheel of a 1066 and sheared the side of a truck off and broke the guys hip, 4 tractors ran into ponds under water. Had one farm manager who was a hothead and people who key up the radio mic to cut him off just to make him irate he would start yelling on the CB “you bring your momma with you to work today you fricking f**ggot”

Then there was one time a farm managers wife was cheating on him fricking one of the night workers in a work truck. They were laying on the cb mic and the whole farm heard them fricking.