What the Truck? CB Lingo Decoded
By Diane Tait Image courtesy wikimedia If you’ve ever taken the time to listen to truckers conversing with one another on CB radio, you might think you’d entered a foreign country. That’s because CB lingo is as cryptic to the uninitiated as Greek would be to most Americans. Even worse, while many of the words spoken on radio by the typical trucker might be readily recognizable, the meaning of those words is anything but to all save other truckers. So, if you don’t know an Alligator from a Wiggle Wagon, I thought I’d take the time to clue you into the ABC’s of CB radio lingo.