Trucking Slang
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"Ace" - A class A trucker
"Advertising" - Highway Patrol with their lights on
"Alligator" - Large piece of a tire on the road
"At your back door" - Behind your truck
“Back out” - I'm done talking now
"Bambi" - Deer (dead or alive)
"Barbershop" - A low overpass
"Bear bait" - Leader in a group of trucks
"Bear/Smokey" - Generic term for a law enforcement officer
"Bear cave" - Police station on the highway
"Bear in the air" - Overhead highway patrol
"Bear meat" - Speeding truck without a radar detector
"Bear report" - Asking for the location of the cops
"Bedbuggers" - Moving companies
"Better half" - Husband or wife
"Big/tall rubber" - 24 inch tires
"Bingo cards" - Paper cards that hold trucking permits from different states
"Boardwalk" - A bumpy road
"Bobtail" - Traveling without a trailer
"Boogie" - Top gear
“Boss man” - Your immediate superior/supervisor at work.
"Boulevard" - Interstate highway
"Boy scouts" - State police
"Break" - I'd like to break-in, interrupt
"Brake check" - Jamming on your brakes in traffic
"Break one-oh" - I want to talk (on channel 10)
"Breaker" - CB'er who asks to use a channel
“Bubba” - A not-so-formal version of good neighbor.
"Bug out" - To leave a channel
"Bulldog" - Mack truck
"Bumper Sticker" - Car following too closely
"Bundled out" - Trailer is fully loaded
"Buttermilk" - Any beer
"Camera" - Police radar unit
"Cash register" - Toll booth
"Chicken coop" - Truck weight station
"Chicken lights" - Extra lights on a truck
"City kitty" - Woman city police officer
"Clean shot" - No highway patrol around
"Coal Bucket" - Dump Trailer
"Comeback" - Return call or repeat
"Comedian" - Median strip
"Comic book" - Truck driver's log book
"County Mounty" - Highway patrol
"Covered wagon" - Gravel trailer covered with a tarp
"Cowboy" - Truck driver who constantly changes lanes at high speeds
"Crotch rocket" - Motorcycle
"Cub scouts" - Sheriff's deputies
"Darktime" - Nighttime
"Destruction" - Road construction
"Do it to it" - Speed up
"Double Harley" - Putting the CB on channel 11
"Double nickel" - Traveling at 55 MPH
"Down stroke" - A hill going down
"Dragon fly" - A truck with no power
"Dragon Wagon" - Tow truck
"Dry box" - Freight trailer
"Ears on" - CB is turned on
"Eat-em-up" - Truck stop Cafe
"Eighteen wheeler" - A truck with 18 wheels
"Evil Kenivel" - Motorcycle cop
"Fat load" - Overload, carrying more weight than local state law allows
"Feed the bears" - Receive a ticket
"Flappers" - Ears
"Flip flop" - Trucker's return trip
"Fog lifter" - Interesting CB'er
"Four wheeler" - Passenger car or pickup
"Freight shaker" - A Freightliner truck
"Front door" - Lead rig in convoy of trucks
"Gearjammer" - A speeding trucker
"Gearslammer" - A trucker who's known to accelerate and decelerate a lot
"Georgia overdrive" - Neutral gear
"Getting out" - Being heard on the c.b.
"Going horizontal" - Going to sleep
"Got your ears on?" - Used when asking for someone on the CB
"Gouge on it" - Go faster, speed it up
"Grass" - Median strip or side of road
"Green stamp road" - Toll Road
"Green stamps" - Money paid in fines (dollars)
"Hammer" - Gas pedal
"Hammer down" - Drive fast
"Handle" - Slang names used on the c.b.
"Harvey Wallbanger" - Reckless driver
"In the grass" - Pulled over in a median strip
"Invitations" - Traffic tickets
"Juvenile delinquent" - Someone pretending to be a truck driver
"Landline" - Telephone
"Make the trip?" - Is transmission being received
"Mile markers" - Small signs on interstate highways
"Mix-master" - Highway cloverleaf
"On the side" - Pulled over on the shoulder
"One eyed monster" - T.V. set
"Over your shoulder" - Behind you
"Pickle Park" - Rest area
"Pickle Park Pinger" - A CB with a roger-beep
"Pickum-up" - Pick-up truck, light truck
"Picture machine" - Radar
"Picture taker" - Police with radar
"Plain wrapper" - Unmarked police car
"Put the pedal to the metal" - Accelerate, speed up
"Ratchet jaw" - Non-stop talker
"Read" - Hear
"Rest-um-up" - Roadside rest area
"Rig" - Tractor
"Rocking chair" - Vehicle between 2 trucks
"Roger Beep" - An add-on device for CB's that beeps when the mike key is pressed or released
"Roller skate" - Small car
"Rolling parking lot" - Automobile transport
"Shake the leaves" - See what's ahead
"Shiny side" - Top of the trailer
"Skate Board" - A flatbed trailer
"Smokey on four legs" - Mounted police
"Sweeping leaves" - Bringing up the rear
"Stagecoach" - A customized bus used to carry entertainers form venue to venue
"Thermos bottle" - Tanker truck
"Tijuana taxi" - Well marked police car
"Tin can" - CB radio
"Train station" - Traffic court that fines everyone
"Two wheeler" - Motorcycle
"What's your 20?" - Asking for location
"Walked over" - Over powered by a stronger c.b. signal
"Willy weaver" - Drunk driver
"Windjammer" - Blabbermouth trucker
"Window wash" - A rainstorm
"Yardstick" - Mile markers on the road side
"You got a copy on me?" - Do you hear me?
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