The vocabulary of the Citizens' Band is an old and established one. It is more than just substituted words and phrases that mean something other than what thet denote, but is an entire rubric of linguistic behavior; that is, the the the way users communicate on the CB is unique to that mode of communication. Like, for instance, you will hear a kind of laid-back tone that is reserved for the radio. ironically, this laid-backness is also tempered with a hostility that almost alwaays leads to arguments and ultra critical and brutish put-downs with common sayings like, "shut up stupid," or "can't we all just get along?" Common terminology:

• State nicknames - Truckers refer to states by their nicknames: PA-The Keystone; OH-The Buckeye; NJ-The Garden (thats a laugh) etc.
• Driver - the way everyone on the CB is referred to
• Travel agent - dispatcher
• Base - a base-station; a person transmitting from a home, not a trucker (hated by drivers)
• Breaker 1-9 - question
• Breaker for some local - asking for directions
• Breaker 1-9 for a radio check - how does radio sound?
• Whats the 20? where is it/are you?
• Come on - proceed with question
• Got it on? - are you listening
• Bear - police
• Bear in the air - police helicopter or plane doing aerial traffic check
• Honey bear - female officer
• Bear with a customer - officer with someone pulled over
• Full grown - state trooper
• County mounty - local officer
• Evil Kneivel - motorcycle cop
• Capture - someone pulled over
• D.O.T/Deisel bear - Dept. of Transpotation official (this is the scariest person for a driver).
• Logging - when deisel bears are checking log books
• She's fat - when the rig is overweight
• She's long/stretched out - when the rig is overlength (the rear trailer wheels are extended all the way to the rear.
• Dog tracking/dog legging - when trailer is not tracking straight behind tractor
• Wagon - trailer
• Got on/pulling - what's in the trailer/how much weight, "what do you got on?"
• Tandems - 8 trailer wheels--these adjust by sliding forward and back. This is how weight is distributed.
• Drives - 8 tractor drive wheels
• Steers - 2 front wheels for steering
• Aligator or gator - the strips of tread on roadways--these are unglued retreads. Trailer tires are not replaced, new tread is glued on the old tires. This can be done on all tires except steers. They often come off.
• Disco lights or red & blues - police car lights on
• Cash box - toll booth
• Yard stick or yard line - mile marker
• Hammer lane - fast lane
• Granny lane - slow lane
• Hammer down - go as fast as possible
• The middle - the median
• Rollin - driving
• Cowboy/supertrucker - an agressive trucker who stops for nothing I.E. weather
• 4-wheeler - car
• Big truck - 18-wheeler
• Bobtail - operating with just tractor and no trailer
• Dead head - operating with an empty trailer
• Day cab - truck with no sleeper
• Skateboard - flatbed
• Dropdeck - flatbed for hauling construction equipment-drive on to it
• Bucket - dumptruck
• Reefer - refrigerated trailer
• Dry box/van - regular trailer
• Lumper - someone at a warehouse hired by the driver to unload freight (often mandatory)
• Triax - a triple axeled dumptruck (no trailer).
• No fly zone - a reduced speed area--usually through a city
• CBA - CB Asshole--someone wasting time on the CB--usually a base station
• Wiggle wagon - double or triple trailers (because of how they don't stay in lane)
• Pete/KW/Shaker/National - Peterbuilt/Kenworth/Freightliner/International
• Murdercycle - motorcycle
• Backup - traffic jam
• Wreck - accident
• Meatwagon - ambulance
• Hook/under the hook/roll off- tow truck
• Brake check - slowdown
• Back it down - slow down
• Greasy - slippery
• Auto (pilot) - cruise control
• chicken coop - weigh station/scales
• Welcome mat - weigh station (because they are at the state lines)
• Locked up - scales closed
• Shooting you in the face/in the ass/ looking at you - radar at cars or behind them.
• Lot Lizard - prostitute
• Trough - buffet
• Go-go Juice - diesel fuel or coffee (I love that one)
• Donut Shop - police station
• Good Buddy - homosexual truck driver
• Pickle Park - rest stop
• Team - team drivers
• take it up to ... - go to a different channel to talk to that person
• Stepped on - what you said was cut out by a stronger radio
• The house - home
• Nap - sleep, the 10-hour break
• Bunk - sleeper birth
• Get your wig cut - haircut
• Ole lady/better half - wife or girlfriend
• Ladydriver - female trucker
• Back at ya - same to you
• JC - Jesus Christ
• Cold one - beer
• Ease on down - go down the road
• loose a coffee - urinate

Can you translate the following sentences?: "

southbound, you got a full grown with disco lights and and customer at the 26
yard line." "Northbound Evil Kneivel in the hammer lane rolling." "Honey
bear with a captured 4-wheeler in the middle at the 46 yardsticker." "You got a
brake check Northbound at the 56 due to a wreck at the 51. Two 4-wheelers and a
big truck. Meat wagons at the scene, the big truck is under the hook." "The
Southbound coop is locked up, but there are 2 bears in the middle shooting you
in the face at the 21 yardstick. You also have 2 looking at you on the
Northbound 44." "Breaker 1-9 for some local...go ahead local...whats the 20 of
the Proctor & Gamble plant in DeKalb?....? "Anyone lookin for a good
buddy?.. Take it up to 23...whats the 20 on the good buddy?.. I'm in the ConWay
wiggle wagon at the pickle park at the 45 yardstick...Sorry driver what was
that? You got stepped on." "The Buckeye's got the welcome mat rolled out checking your ground pressure. 2 Deisel bears at the chicken house logging and working hard." "The coop is closed in the garden but a bear-in-the-air shooting between the 29 and 50 yardline, roger?"