| Radio Speak | Means |
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10-1 | Receiving Poorly |
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10-4 | Ok, Message Received Does not mean Yes - only message received |
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10-7 | Out of Service, Leaving Air (you're going off the air) |
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10-8 | In Service, subject to call (you're back on the air) |
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10-9 | Repeat Message |
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10-10 | Transmission Completed, Standing By (you'll be listening) |
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10-20 | "What's your location?" or "My location is..." Commonly asked as "What's your 20?" |
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10-100 | Need to go to Bathroom. |
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Affirmative | Yes |
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Negative | No |
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Twenty |
See "10-20" |
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Four |
See "10-4" |
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Bear or Smokey |
a police officer. The terms "Smokey" & "Bear" are both direct
references to Smokey Bear , a character image
commonly seen along U.S. highways, as part of warnings not to cause
wildfires. He wears a campaign hat
very similar to that included in many highway
patrol uniforms in the U.S. |
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City Kitty/City Bear/Local Yokel |
Local law enforcement monitoring a particular stretch of interstate
which runs through their jurisdiction. |
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County Mountie |
a Sheriff's deputy. |
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Full-Grown / Full Grown Bear |
a state policeman/trooper |
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Plain Brown / White Wrapper [Plain Wrapper] |
Unmarked police car (Often referred to by the car's actual color) |
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Smokey report |
is what CB users say when they have information on
a law officer, such as location or current activities. |
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Chicken coop |
A weigh station. |
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Locked up / clean |
means the weigh station is closed. (ex: "the chicken coop is clean.") |
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Clean and Green |
No police or obstructions ahead. |
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Breaker / Break |
Telling other CB users that you'd like to start a transmission on a
channel. May be succeeded by either the channel number, indicating
that anyone may acknowledge (e.g. "Breaker One-nine" refers to
channel 19, the most widely used among truck drivers), or by a
specific "handle", which is requesting a particular individual to
respond. |
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Fender Bender |
A road traffic accident/crash. |
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Flip-flop /Flip-side |
The return leg of a trip. (ex: "Catch you on the flip-flop" means
"I'll contact you again on the way back.") |
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Dead-heading |
A truck operating with an empty trailer (see "Hauling fence post
holes"). |
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Hammer Lane |
The far left lane (fast lane). |
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I'm Gone / We gone |
Indicates that one is finished transmitting and may not be listening
to the conversation any longer, or may be traveling out of receiving
range. Equivalent to "Signing off", "Out", or "Clear" in formalized
radio voice procedure. |
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Lot Lizard |
Prostitute, especially one that frequents truck stops. |
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Seat Cover |
A attractive female passenger in a vehicle. |
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