On this date 65 years ago, the FCC established what became known as citizens band — or CB radio. We reflect on how it rose to immense popularity and the ways the radios are still in use today. On this ...

Image from Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture (courtesy Four Corners Books) In the late 1970s to early 1980s, there was a frenzy for Citizens Band (CB) radio in the UK. However, while ...

Citizen Band (CB) radios, made fashionable in the 1970s by movies like Breaker Breaker and Smokey and the Bandit, are experiencing a resurgence in popularity thanks to nostalgic baby boomers. The ...

*It turned out you could hack them. That's why they were a hit in the brief but intense heyday of CB radio. Out of the box, the Cobra 138XLR was one of the more capable Citizen’s Band (CB) radios ...

In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the southern half of ...

Back in the 1970s, when truckers became American pop-culture heroes and CB radios became commonplace in Malaise Era cars, it seemed that anybody who wanted to install a transceiver under the dash ...

In the 1970s, CB radio peaked in popularity. The national speed limit had dropped to 55 miles per hour and drivers began to equip their trucks with CB radios to learn where to get cheaper fuel and the ...

The CB Radio remains one of the most iconic aspects of modern trucking, but a new standard was introduced decades ago. So why hasn't GMRS replaced CB Radio?

Do you remember the heyday of citizens band radio in the mid-1970s, when that communications craze had much of the country talking in a Southern drawl, using 10 codes (as in "10-4" to mean ...

Bill Fries, an advertising executive better known by his stage name, C.W. McCall, who had hit country records in the 1970s about long-haul truck driving during the height of the citizens band radio ...