re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Rmember that the oil crisis led the federal government to reduce the speed limit to 55 mph and CB’s became a vital tool in allowing truckers to violate the law, which gave them the cachet of rebels and outlaws, something that always appealed to southerners especially.

Rather fitting y’all are having this conversation after Burt Reynolds’ passing. Smokey and the Bandit was all about CBs and evading those smokies and local yokels.

And let us not forget that Sam Peckinpah classic, Convoy.