Cab---- ( Part of truck that driver sits in. )

Cabbage---- A long steep incline in eastern Oregon. "I smoked the brakes comin' off of Cabbage". )

Cabbie---- ( Taxi driver. )

Cabover---- ( Truck with part of the engine under the cab. )

Cabover truck---- ( Truck turned over in a wreck; see "coffin". )

Cackie creat---- ( Poultry truck. )

Cactus City---- ( Amarillo,Texas-USA(see "Big A"). )

Cactus juice---- ( Liquor. )

Cactus Patch---- ( Phoenix,Arizona-USA.Or Roswell,New Mexico-USA )

California Grapevine---- ( U.S. 1 between Los Angeles and San Francisco-USA. )

California lights---- ( Police "shouting". )

California turnarounds---- ( Sleep-avoiding pills; "bennies". )

Call Girl---- ( Prostitute. )

Calling---- ( . )

Calling to you, come on---- ( Your turn to talk. )

Call Sign---- ( A sequence of letters and numbers used to identfy Amateur
Radio Operators and Issued by the FCC. )

Call sign or letters---- ( The numbers and letters assigned by the FCC upon application for CB license. )

Call you in a short---- ( Be right back. )

Camel-back body---- ( Truck with raised front or middle; trailer with a floor slanting at the rear. )

Camera (Kodak,Polaroid)---- ( Radar unit. )

Camera car---- ( Radar trap. )

Camera rolling---- ( Radar in use. )

Cancer stick---- Cigarette. )

Candyman---- ( FCC. )

Candy store---- ( Trucker's fun place. )

Canteen---- ( Truck stop. )

Capital City---- Raleigh,North Carolina-USA. )

Capital J---- ( Jackson,Mississippi-USA. )

Captain---- ( Good buddy. )

Card---- ( Piece of cardboard with call letters; handle. )

Care Bear---- ( Law enforcement in a construction zone. )

Cartel---- ( Channel hoggers. )

Carvel---- ( House of ill-repute (see "ice cream". )

Casa---- ( Spanish for home. )

Cash register---- ( Toll booth. )

Cat box---- ( Reastroom. )

Catch---- ( Talk to. )

Catch car---- ( Chase car. )

Catch you on the flip flop---- ( Talk to you on the return trip. )

Cat House---- ( Place to find prostitutes. )

Cattle Town---- ( Chicago,Illinois-USA. )

CB---- ( Radio, 40 channels, max power 4W AM, 12W SSB; on the following frequencies, 26.965 - 27.405 MHz. )

Cb'er in green---- ( Military police with CB. )

CB Town---- ( Council Bluffs,Iowa-USA. )

CDL---- ( Commercial Drivers License . )

Cell Block---- ( Location of base station (room, den, or basement). )

Cement mixer---- ( Noisy drive train on truck. )

Center grove---- Grassy median between lanes of highway. )

Chain gang---- ( Group of people belonging to same club. )

Channel break---- ( How to ask what channel a particular group of people are using. )

Channel hogger---- ( Nonstop talker. )

Channelmaster---- ( Person resposible for organizing and controlling a group conversation. )

Chapter 13---- ( New York City,New York-USA. )

Channel 9---- ( Emergency channel. )

Channel 19---- ( The "unofficially" official truckers channel. )

Channel 24---- ( Non-existent channel, before January 1977, to which those who pestered for radio and time checks were sent. )

Channel 25---- ( Prior to January 1977, the telephone. )

Charge it---- ( Let air flow into brake lining. )

Charlie (Uncle Charlie)---- ( FCC. )

Charlie Brown---- ( Affirmative, same as 10-4. )

Charlie chopper---- ( Government helicopter. )

Charlie Town---- ( Charleston,South Carolina-USA. )

Chase car---- ( Police car. )

Chaser---- ( Police car beyond the radar unit itself. )

Cheap heap---- ( Jalopy. )

Check---- ( Look. )

Checking my eyelids for pin holes---- ( Trying to keep awake; falling asleep. )

Check the seat covers---- ( Watch for a female driver with her skirt pulled up or look at that passenger (usually a woman); or be on the lookout for girls. )

Cherry picker---- ( Tall truck cab. )

Chew and choke---- ( Restaurant. )

Chewing the fat---- ( Reminiscing. )

Chick---- ( Woman or girl. )

Chicken choker---- ( Poultry truck. )

Chicken coop (Coup)---- Weighting station or "scale house"/"Locked up" means the station is closed. )

Chicken coop (Coup) is clean---- ( Weighting station not in operation. )

Chicken Inspector---- ( Man in charge of weighting station . )

Chicken Lights---- ( Extra lights on the truck and trailer. )

Chicken plucker---- ( Same as chicken inspector. )

Chicken truck---- Fast truck. )

Chicken truck or chicken hauler---- ( big, fast large car with lots of chrome and lights.
Also called a rooster cruiser. Look for a chrome rooster on the mud flaps on some of these behemoths.
Yes, they do haul chickens (and produce and other stuff). "Cluck, cluck, chicken truck!" is the way other drivers greet them. )

Chief hood lifter---- ( Head garage mechanic. )

Chief op---- ( The person to whom the station is licensed. )

Chit chat---- ( Talk. )

Chi Town---- ( Chicago,Illinois-USA. )

Chocolate ice cream---- ( Black prostitute. )

Choke---- ( Hold tight. )

Choke and puke---- ( Nasty truckstop restraunt or Restaurant. )

Choking the chicken---- ( Avoiding a weighting station. )

Choo Choo Town---- ( Chattanooga,Tennessee-USA. )

Chop house---- ( Truck stop. )

Chopped top---- ( Person with bald head; roof mounted antenna on mobil; short antenna or loaded base antenna. )

Chopper---- ( Heilcopter; fancy motorcycle. )

Chopper in the sky---- ( Heilcoptor overhead. )

Chow---- ( Food; goodbye(Ital. Ciao). )

Chow down---- ( A big meal. )

Christmas Card---- ( Speeding ticket or any other summons. )

Christmas tree---- ( Truck blazing with lights. )

Chrome dome---- ( A bald person, or a mobil with the antenna on the roof. )

Chucking carriers---- ( Act of holding down key on microphone to prevent others from talking by blocking airways;
done deliberately. Compare with "stepping on"; also known as "dry carrier". )

Ciao---- ( Goodbye (Italian); pronounced "chow". )

Cigar City---- ( Tampa,Florida-USA. )

Circus wagon---- ( Monfort truck; truck with canvas trap. )

Cincy---- ( Cincinnati,Ohio-USA. )

Cinderella---- ( Disneyland. )

Circle City---- ( Indianapolis,Indiana-USA. )

Citizen ---- ( Someone who is not a trucker. "A citizen back there helped me change the tire". )

Citizens Band---- The radio service used by CB’ers. Also the name of a popular 70’s movie. )

City flyer---- ( Short truck. )

City kitty---- ( Local police; or city police; when receiving ticket you are "feeding the city kitty". )

City of the Bay---- ( San Francicso,Californa-USA. )

City of the Brewery---- ( Milwaukee,Wisconsin-USA. )

Clean---- ( All clear of accidents and police. )

Clean after you---- ( After this conversation channel is clear. )

Clean and green---- ( All clear. )

Clean as a hounds tooth---- Road ahead is free of obstructions or construction. )

Clean boor---- ( A cab with only one seat. )

Clean cat---- ( An unmodified rig. )

Clean cut---- ( Station putting out legal output; peaked sets. )

Cleaner channel---- ( Channel with fewer conversations going. )

Clean shot---- ( All clear; no police. )

Clean up---- ( Promiscuours. )

Clear---- ( All communications completed; finished talking. )

Clear after you---- ( Same as "clean after you". )

Clear and moving---- ( Finished talking and traveling along. )

Clear and rolling---- ( Same as "clear and moving". )

Clear and streaking---- ( Same as "clear and moving", connotes traveling fast. )

Clear as a spring day---- ( All clear, no police. )

Clear shot---- ( All clear ahead. )

Clear with you---- ( Transmission completed. )

Close the gates---- ( Shut trailer doors. )

Clothesline---- ( Power or telephone lines over the road. )

Cloudy---- ( FCC in the area. )

Cluster F#@! 500---- ( Atlanta,Georiga-USA- Interstates 285, 75, 85, 20. )

C'mon---- ( Come back; i.e., I receive . )

Cold bucket---- ( Coal-carrying truck. your signal, talk to me. )

Cockelburr---- ( Pep pills. )

C.O.E.---- ( Cab over engine. )

Coffee bean---- Waiter or waitress. )

Coffee break---- ( Meeting of distributors and CB'ers to buy and sellequipment; usually informal. )

Coffee head---- ( High on caffeine. )

Coffee pot---- ( Restaurant. )

Coffee Warmer---- ( Linear Amp. )

Coffin---- ( Cabover truck with person inside. )

Coffin box---- ( Same as suicide box. )

Coke stop---- ( Rest area or restroom. )

Cold coffin---- ( Beer. )

Cold rig---- ( Refrigerated truck. )

Collect call---- ( Message for named CB'er. )

Colorado Kool-Aid---- ( Beer. )

Colors going up---- ( Policeman turning on lights on top of car. )

Coma your hair and smile---- ( Radar trap ahead. )

Combine---- ( A tractor made by Navistar International which used to be named International Harvester. )

Come again---- ( Repeat last transmission. )

Come-a-part engine---- ( Cummins engine. )

Come back---- ( Repeat message; please reply. )

Come back body---- ( Truck with a raised front or middle. )

Comedian---- ( Center Median Strip. )

Come here---- ( Please reply. )

Come on---- ( Over; i.e., your turn to talk. )

Come on back---- ( Repeat message. )

Come on breaker---- ( Invitation to "breaker" to begin talking. )

Comic books---- ( Trucker's log books. )

Coming back to you---- ( Replying to you. )

Coming in like your in my back seat---- ( Good audio. )

Coming in loud and proud---- ( Good audio. )

Coming in torrible---- ( Loud signal, over-modulating. )

Coming out of the window---- ( Good audio. )

Commercial Girl---- ( A truck-stop hooker. )

Common gas---- ( Regular gas. )

Communist State---- ( Ohio-USA. )

Communist State West Side---- ( California-USA. )

Concentrator---- ( Driver. )

Concrete blonde---- Hooker. )

Concrete jungle---- ( Intersate highway; also, a city. )

Concrete ribbon---- ( Same as "concrete jungle". )

Confab---- ( Same as "eyeball". )

Container---- ( What you call a "regular" 18 wheeler . )

Container---- ( Car; casing around CB radio . )

Conventional---- ( Refers to a conventional tractor, one with a hood, as opposed
to a cabover engine type; gas-powered engine. )

Conversate---- ( Talk. )

Convertible---- ( Truck-tralior with cansas top. )

Convoy---- ( Group of trucks, cars, or combination of both, moving along in a group by prearrangement
usually originated spontaneously; frequently a means of spotting police. )

Cookie box---- ( Pack of cigarettes or bakery truck. )

Cookies---- ( Cigarettes. )

Cooking---- ( Driving. )

Cooking good---- ( Reached desired speed or speeding. )

Cooking with gas---- ( Making good time. )

Coop---- ( Same as "chicken coop". )

Cop---- ( Police. )

Cop flop---- ( Police making u-turn. )

Cop shop---- ( Police HQ. )

Copy---- ( To hear and understand message ("Do you copy?)". )

Copy the mail---- ( Listen to other people talk. )

Corn binder---- ( International Harvester truck. )

Corn cellar---- ( Liquor store. )

Cornflake machine---- ( Consolidated Freight truck. )

Cotton mouth---- ( Thirsty. )

Cottonpicker---- ( Said of a person in place of a four letter word. )

Cottonpicker---- ( A male bonding term for a friend of yours. )

Cottontail---- ( Female hitchhiker. )

Country Hoolen---- ( Farm tractor. )

County Cadillac---- ( Rig. )

County bounty---- ( Fine or summors. )

County Joe---- ( Local police. )

County Mountie---- ( A Sheriff's deputy car. )

County mounty---- ( County policeman or sheriff. )

County mounty bounty---- ( A traffic fine that must be paid on the spot. )

County yokel---- ( Local police. )

Coupon---- ( Ticket. )

Cousin Charlie---- ( The FCC. )

Cover---- ( Female. )

Covered up---- ( Interfered with. )

Covered wagon---- A gravel trailer topped with a trap. )

Cover Girl---- ( Woman. )

Cover ground---- ( Travel quickly. )

Cowboy---- ( Trucker who constantly changes lanes or Reckless driver. )

Cowboy Cadillac---- ( El Camino or Ford Ranchero (open-backed cars). )

Cowboy trucker---- ( One who spends money on chrome. )

Cow pie---- ( Dirt or muddy road. )

Cow Town---- ( Calgary,Alberta-Canada. )

Cow Town---- ( Fort Worth,Texas-USA. )

CQ---- ( A radio term used to call others. )

Crack'em up---- ( Accident. )

Cracker head---- ( You can recognize a crackerhead by his/her dumb mistake or stupid remark.
You'll find them everywhere; just grin and bear it. )

Crackerhead---- ( A derogatory term; insult. )

Cracking the whip---- ( Moving fast. )

Crack-whore---- ( A lot lizard on drugs. )

Cradle baby---- ( Person sitting on side waiting for someone to allow him to talk; a timid person. )

Cream puff---- ( Easy trip. )

Credit card---- ( Boyfriend, male passenger with female breaker. )

Creeper gear---- ( Low gear. )

Crispy Corpse---- ( Awful! But it's what drivers call Corpus Christi,Texas-USA. )

Crooked ladder---- ( Firemen. )

Crossing center ice---- ( Crossing the median. )

Cross talk---- ( Splashover from another channel. )

Crotch rocket---- ( A motorcycle. )

Cruisin bruisin bear---- ( Police patrol. )

Cruisin around---- ( Driving, wheeling around. )

Cub scouts ---- ( Police(Sheriff’s men). )

Cuda---- ( Plymouth Barracuda. )

Cup of mud---- ( Coffee. )

Curly locks---- Coils in a CB rig. )

Cut loose---- ( Turn off radio. )

Cut out---- ( Finish conversation and leave channel. )

Cut some Z's---- ( Get some sleep; also, "log some Z's". )

Cut the coax---- ( Turn off CB set. )

Cyclone cycle---- ( Speeding motorcycle. )

Call Sign---- ( A sequence of letters and numbers used to identfy Amateur
Radio Operators and Issued by the FCC. )

Call sign or letters---- ( The numbers and letters assigned by the FCC upon application for CB license. )

Can---- ( Shell of a CB set, or tunable coil in CB set. )

Cans---- ( Headphones. )

Canada CB Band---- ( The CB frequencies, modulation, and power limits are the same as the 26-27 MHz CB band in the USA. )

CAP---- ( Civil Air Patrol--"A Volunteer affiliate of the United State Air Force". )

Cap---- ( Capacitor (formerly condenser). )

Capacitor---- ( An electronic componet composed of two or
more conductive plates separated by an insulating material.
'A capactor stores engery in an electric field'. )

Carrier---- ( The radio wave which carries voice signal; An
Unmodulated transmitted signal ora pure continuous radio emission at a fixed frequency,
without modulation and without interruption. Several types of modulation can be applied to the carrier, See AM and FM.. )

Carrier Frequency---- ( Distance between mark and space of the carrier for RTTY or similar communications. )

CB---- ( Radio, 40 channels, max power 4W AM, 12W SSB; on the following frequencies, 26.965 - 27.405 MHz. )

CBI---- ( Citizen band radio intrference. )

CBR---- ( Cross Band Repeater-- A repeater which will receive an incoming signal and re-transmit it in different
bands, ie: Receives 144 MHz band and re-transmits 430 (440) MHz Bands. )

CBRS---- Citizens Band Radio System. )

CCW ---- ( Counter Clock Wise. )

Center Frequency---- ( The unmodulated carrier frequency of an FM transmitter. )

Center Loading---- ( A loading coil at the center of an antenna to achieve a lower resonant frequency. )

CH---- ( Channel. )

Channel---- ( Specific frequency within a radio band. )

Charger---- ( An adaptor that changes current from 110 V.A.C. to twelve V.D.C. )

Charlie (Uncle Charlie)---- ( FCC. )

Chucking carriers---- ( Act of holding down key on microphone to prevent others from talking by blocking airways;
done deliberately. Compare with "stepping on"; also known as "dry carrier". )

Citizens Band---- The radio service used by CB’ers. Also the name of a popular 70’s movie. )

Clarifier---- Found on SSB rigs, this control varies the receiver frequency to help tune the other station in (called "delta-tune" on AM rigs). )

Coax---- ( Coaxial cable. )

COAX / Coaxial Cable---- ( Feed line with a central conductor surrounded by plactic,
foam, or gaseous insulation, which in turn is covered by a shielding conductor and the entire cable is then coversd with vinyl insulation. )

Code---- ( Usually refers to Morse code, but used for others such as baudot. )

COIL---- ( A conductor wound into a series of loops. )

Color Code:---- ( A system in which numerical values are assigned to various colors.
Colored stripes are painted on the body of resistors and other components to show their value. )

Convac---- ( Conversation. )

Conversion---- ( Number of IF Circuits in the Receiver. )

Converter---- ( An adaptor that changes 110 V.A.C. to twelve V.D.C. )

Copyright---- ( A legal claim to information or objects. )

CPU---- ( Central Processing Unit. )

CQ---- ( A radio term used to call others. )

Crank up the mike---- ( Turn up the preamp. )

C.R.T.P.---- ( Civillian Radio Taxi Patrol. )

Crystal---- ( Device used to tune CB to exact frequency. )

Crystal Oscillator---- ( A device that uses a quartz crystal to keep the frequency of a transmitter constant.. )

CTCSS---- ( Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System--Adds a continuous
sub-audible low frequency tone to the transmitted carrier and Receivers that are set for the
same low frequency tone can decode the signal. )

Cubical Quad Antenna---- ( A full wavelength loop antenna built with it's elements in the shape of Squares. )

Current---- ( A flow of electrons in an electric circuit. )

CW---- Morse Code. )

CW #1---- ( Carrier Wave ie: Morse Code or #2 ~ ClockWise. )

CW Filter---- ( Used to narrow IF passband reception in crowded band conditions. )

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The Copyright Minefield By Jacqui Kramer, Contributing Author
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"The copyright issue is a sticky one for Web site owners and their employees, particularly contractors.
Currently in the United States, there are no laws that specifically address copyright issues in the online world.
However, the U.S. courts have ruled that existing copyright laws governing the print world can be applied to the online world."

If by mistake, I've used someone's copyright material, notify me, and I'll remove it.

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