Word: cb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relieved when the rancorous independent truckers' strike showed signs of waning. Though it continued to cause trouble in some areas, it was apparently running out of gas in others. In Tennessee, truckers making deliveries were still the target of vandals and snipers. One driver was informed over his CB radio that he was losing a right wheel. When he stepped out to have a look, he was shot and wounded. Because of that and other incidents, Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander declared an energy emergency, put state troopers on a twelve-hour day and ordered them to escort trucks, especially...
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...general store, under the gaze of a ceramic bust of Elvis Presley, drivers can buy everything from iridescent oil paintings (often depicting trucks) to pantyhose. What they buy most is hats ($30) and boots (up to $150). The newsstand is jammed with copies of Overdrive, the CB Times and Country Music News. And in a concession to the growing number of female drivers, Vogue and Mademoiselle...
From jamming the useful CB circuits with dumb and frivolous chatter to hogging the highways, the four wheels can do no right. "The four wheels are parasites," says one driver. "They use you as bear meat." Growls another: "All year the four wheels plan for a two-week vacation. They throw a big party the night before they leave, jump in the car, the wife has the map in her lap and there are three screaming kids in the back seat. The guy is going 70 m.p.h. and looking backwards." Trucker Phyllis Crush, who drives with her husband Ted, describes...