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Do you remember convoys?

bunches of semis in a row going down the highway....and what was the significance of them?
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LOL, good memories, maybe you two ain't as old as I thought, it was a song. CW McCall Cool song, but there were a lot of them out at the time, Phantom 309, and a bunch of others. Trucking was big business then a guy or gal could make a pretty good living at it. It was before cell phones, and everybody had a CB. It was good safety on the road and you had a tendency to travel together if you were all going the same direction, gave you someone to talk to. Also, at the time, they still had radio programs on the AM radio dial, you could listen to a story for a couple of hundred miles. The best was getting with a group and traveling, telling stories, tall tales were the best. Sometimes, just things you missed, family, kids, pets, where you were headed next. Good places to stop, places to avoid, speed traps, bad roads, good roads, and roads not to take to get somewhere.

Thanks for the memories... Labor dispute LOL, cute.
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Posted Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:20PM
they were supposed to make it harder for cops to pull anybody over for speeding, i think.
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Posted Aug 7th, 2009 at 9:43AM
I live next to a big interstate. Convoys are still alive and well.
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Posted Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:11PM
LOL! I remember them. Wasn't it some sort of labor dispute?
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Posted Aug 6th, 2009 at 11:03PM
10-4 rubber duck!

CB radios are gone too, every trucker has a cell phone and a rapid pass (to bypass weigh stations) along with a lap top to stay in contact with the company they work for.

remember T-hunts??? You used the CB radio and drove around trying to find each other .... kinda like finding garage sales off Craigslist!!! hahaha
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Posted Aug 7th, 2009 at 1:09AM
I still see convoys out west. Small ones. I avoid them as they always seem like a bad chain reaction waiting to happen. Also, so many of these trucks are governed that it would be difficult for many of us to keep up. My cruise maxes out at 61 and I still pass up other trucks.
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