Yorks Pud? Pie in the Sky!
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HAVING READ an answer to Yorkshire Pudding (CM, August 30l I can give it a sub-title: Pie in the Sky. I have never read so much drivel!
I am not a CBer or what you call Breaker, but if CB/Open Channel becomes legal I certainly will be.
lain Sherriff seems to have failed to make a single constructive criticism of CB and as for being dangerous to use whilst on the move, just how many drivers light cigarettes, tune radios, pour coffee from flasks, read maps and as Mr Sheriff correctly says, unwrap sweets whilst in control of vehicles? Surely CB is no more dangerous than any of these?
Far from being a toy to play with, CB would be a useful aid to the industry. How often do you see trucks far from home in strange towns parked by he roadside whilst drivers seek directions? Just how many gallons of dery are wasted each year whilst trucks wander around unknown areas looking for the delivery address?
It seems a little-known fact that trucks are run on derv, not hot air spouted by politicians. I feel sure CB radio could help truck drivers find supplies of dery during what is now becoming an annual fuel crisis which those so-called politicians seem powerless to remedy.
What about serious traffic jams on motorways? One cannot rely on a spasmodic traffic flashes on the radio — we aren't even supposed to be listening to these if your arguments are to be taken seriously — surely forearmed is forewarned and the use of CB in such crises could avert more serious congestion.
Following your editorial condemning CB radio it would be difficult for you to change course and come out in favour of it, but surely response has shown you to be wrong; not all truck drive: s are illiterate or they would not be reading Commercial Motor.
Just how many trucks in the USA have careered off the road due to their drivers' use of CB radio compared to those whose trucks have gone out of control due to their drivers experiencing coronaries? Do you therefore suggest all drivers have their hearts removed?
CB radio represents progress and is here to stay — legislation willing, of course. Surely your efforts would be better occupied devising a sensible code for the users of CB/Open Channel radio to ensure both safe and effective use instead of publishing two pages of trashy American slang! F. B. WHITING St Austell, Cornwall