'Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture' compiles hundreds of calling cards from the renegade 1970s-80s CB radio scene.

Buy This 21,000-Mile 1980 GMC 3500 Because They Aren’t Making Any More of Them With a bench seat and a CB radio, you'd be the coolest cowpuncher around. Jesus Garcia Published Aug 30, 2020 2:14 ...

With a range of approximately five miles, CB radios were popular with truck drivers in the 1970s and 1980s until mostly giving way to cellphones. See ISM band and personal radio services.

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 ...

The licensing requirement was dropped in the 1980s when CB radios became more popular. But that interest has waned in recent years since cellphones became ubiquitous, Winnett said.

If you watch 1970s trucker movies, you might think CB radio was useful for real communications. Not so!