Car Wars Trucker Lingo

This list is inspired by the Trucker CB slang dictionary originally presented in Truck Stop (1983). Additions from wikipedia, suggestions from our readers and some original content.

3s and 8s: Well wishes to a fellow driver. Borrowed from amateur radio telegraphy codes “33” (best regards) and “88” (hugs and kisses). Though to be honest MOST Brothers would NOT want you wishing them 88s
5-by-5: Reading you loud and clear.
(locality) 5-Oh: Municipal police force enforcing traffic laws on the highway within city limits. Or when a brother has an encounter with local cops off the highway.
10-double-7: No, negative.
10 in the Wind: Listening to the CB while driving (also known as “10-10 in the wind”). Shortened from the 10-10 code.
20: Your location. A shortened form of 10-20
Adam 69: When two officers are parked driver’s side door to driver’s side door conversing.
Affirmative: Yes
Aircraft Carrier: Tractor/trailer rig carrying a disassembled aircraft, helicopter or a small plane.
Alabama Chrome: Duct Tape
Alligator: A piece of blown tire on the road. 
Alligator Station: A base station user (not mobile) who talks constantly and seldom listens (comic reference to an alligator – all mouth and no ears). Someone who will not shut up. Frequently refers to a powerful local base station transmitting to mobile CBers, often on channel 19. Similar to Bucket mouth/Linear lungs.
Aye-firmative: A variation of “Affirmative”
Babble / Babbling Idiot: A CB user transmitting in a foreign language.
Baby Bear: A rookie police officer.
Back to the Future: Cruising along at 88 miles an hour or faster.
Back Door: The rearmost vehicle driver in a group or convoy that watches for police officers approaching from behind and gives warning to the others in the group to slow down when speeding. See also Front Door and Rocking Chair.
Backdoor: The rear door of a trailer (listen for context as it can be confused with Back Door).
Back It Down: Reduce driving speed to the speed limit.
Back Row / Party Row: An area of a truck stop, generally located in the back of the property, where Lot Lizards congregate.
Backslide: The return trip of a run or haul resulting at being home for spell.
Badass: a heavily armed civilian car, passenger van, etc.
Bambi: Wildlife on the road mainly Deer. (from the Disney Movie Bambi)
Band-Aid: in need of a medic.
Bear: any law enforcement officer.
Bear Bait: Any vehicle speeding, driving erratically, or behaving in a manner sure bring attention from Law Enforcement.
Bear Bite / Invitation: Being pulled over by a law enforcement vehicle.
Bear Cave / Bear’s den: A police station.
Bear-in-the-air: a combat ready police helicopter.
Bear Rolling Discos: Speeding law enforcement vehicle traveling down the road with lights flashing and sirens wailing.
Bear Trap: A RADAR or speed trap. Also any manufactured reason for law enforcement to pull over a brother.
Bear with Ears: A police officer monitoring the CB airwaves.
Bess (or Bessie): a bus.
Big Slab/Road: Interstate or large highway. 
Big Truck: Any vehicle Class 7 or heavier. (10-Wheeler, Tractor/Trailer rig, Interstate bus, etc.)
Bird-dog: A RADAR detector.
Bird-dog Barking: RADAR detector indicating that RADAR is being used. (“My bird-dog is barking.”)
Black Eye: Any vehicle with a headlight out. 
Black on Fuel: running low. i.e. your available fuel indicator is not lit up and is “in the black”.
Blister: a cupola.
Blister Jockey: a cupola gunner.
Blue Light Special: A police vehicle on silent approach with only its blue strobe lights flashing (from the popular Kmart sale gimmick).
Bobtail: Driving a tractor only. 
BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again: The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there’s not much else one can do other than just endure it.
Bootlegger: Any attempt at a “Bootlegger Reverse” maneuver whether successful or not.
Box: a “civilian” passenger van, as opposed to a van-type trailer.
Break or Breaker: Informing other CB users that you would like to start a transmission on a channel. May be followed by either the channel number, indicating that anyone may acknowledge (e.g., “Breaker One-niner” refers to channel 19, the most widely used among truck drivers), or by a specific “handle”, which is requesting a particular individual to respond.
Brother (Sister): anyone who makes a (honest) living on the highway (i.e. a driver, a bus driver, a member of the trucker’s convoy team, truck or bus gunner, etc).
Brotherhood: Unofficial group in which all professional, non-law enforcement, users of the highway system belong to.
Bucket Mouth: Someone swearing on CB/Someone who will not shut up. Similar to “Alligator Station”, but usually refers to a mobile user rather than a base station.
Bug Bomb: an AP grenade (so called because it discourages “flies”).
Bull Hauler: A livestock hauler that is empty (for a loaded one see Go Go Girls)
Bumper Sticker: Any tailgating vehicle not part of your convoy.
Bush League: Civilian drivers especially pickups congregating with truckers. Usually seeking the protection of the convoy. See also Semi-pro
Cab: the part of a tractor where the driver and gunner sit.
Cab-over: a tractor in which the cab is located above the power plant.
Camel Jockey: Kidnappers or terrorists. (A rather insensitive term relating to the fact that stereotypically, terrorists came from the Middle East and rode camels)
Cannibalize: The act of taking workable parts of one item and using them in another. Or stripping a kill for ammo and weapons.
Can Opener: any heavy weapon capable of shooting holes through armor.
Car Wash: Heavy rain causing bad visibility and hazardous driving conditions.
Cash Register: a tollbooth (legitimate or not).
CB Rambo: A CB user always bragging about their dueling or combat experience but one who never actually fights.
Charlie Foxtrot: Commonly used expression utilizing the military alphabet to stand for clusterf#$&.
Checkpoint Charlie: A Police checkpoint placed to look for intoxicated drivers, drivers with invalid licenses, violations of local weapon rules, hauling contraband, etc. (alludes to the former border crossing between East and West Berlin).
Chicken Coop: Scales, most are abandoned. Those still in operation are Hardened Facilities a/o Trucker Traps.
Chicken Lights: Extra marker lights, usually far in excess of what the law requires. The lights on a chicken truck.
Chicken Truck: A dressed up and fancy truck. Usually means extra chrome, wide front bumper, extra light, etc. Can also mean a fast truck. Does not mean a truck hauling chickens.
CHiPs (or Chippie): California Highway Patro
Choke and Puke: A truck stop restaurant, especially one known for its less-than-quality food. Also Gag and Puke
Civilian: “Ordinary” vehicles, armed or otherwise; any legal traffic except truckers and police vehicles.
Coal Bucket: Truck with a trailer for hauling coal, especially an end-dump trailer.
Cockroach: a compact car.
Cold Shouldered: forced off the road.
Comedian (or a specific comedian’s name): A CB user trying to be funny.
Container: An intermodal shipping container. Refers to a cargo container that goes overseas, gets loaded onto a train, or gets placed on a truck chassis.
Convoy: A formal or informal collection of trucks (or busses) and their support vehicles traveling single file in the same direction.
Cop-ulating: A collaborative task force of multiple agencies and/or jurisdictions conducting a checkpoint, speed enforcement or other targeted “sting” operation.
Copy / Copy That: Acknowledgement “I heard you” or “I understand.”
Corral: A fortified truckstop. A non-fortified truckstop is a Watering Hole.
Cotton Choppers: Other people as a group who are referred to as being bothersome or annoying. Often used in a comic fashion. Occasionally used in a friendly fashion as a rough term of endearment to refer to others. Sometimes used to refer to other people in general, especially those who do not use CB radios.
Cotton Pickin’: Substitution for foul language (now widely used among the general public)
County Mountie: County Sheriff or Deputy usually more corrupt than 5-0s or “Smokeys.”
Covered Wagon: A flatbed trailer with sidewalls and a soft top, also called a “Conestoga”, or a curtainside, trailer. 
Cow Patties: mines.
Crazy Cooter: Tow Truck operator.
Crotch Rocket: A motorcycle built for speed, not fighting.
Cubed: crushed (usually by a collision).
Deadhead: a rig without cargo; an empty trailer.
Demilitarized Zone or DMZ: a specific area in which any type of weaponry are banned. Usually by a local “Don” or gang leader not wanting to deal with anyone who has superior firepower to his own. Iowa used to be a DMZ
Dirty Birds: an unfriendly cycle gang.
Do a Flip: When Law Enforcement quickly changes directions for any reason. Not to be confused with Bootlegger.
Donut: A solid tire left be itself on or at the side of the road.
Doorknocker: an anti-tank or heavier gun.
DOT: Department of Transportation enforcement vehicle.
Double Nickel: Going 55 miles per hour. 
Draggin’ Wagon: A tow truck. 
Drain the Dragon/ The Double D: A restroom stop (usually used in reference to a male driver or gunner).
Driver: A professional operator of any big rig, large truck or bus. As opposed to a civilian driver.
Drop ‘n Hook: The process of dropping off a trailer a then picking up a replacement trailer at a destination. Drivers do NOT like Drop ‘n Hook because the weaponry a/o armor is usually substandard.
Dry Van: A Trailer without a refrigeration unit or insulation.
Dung Beetle: A Volkswagen Beetle with a male driver.
Dustup: Road combat.
Eat ’em up: A restaurant with higher quality food than a Choke and Puke
Eaten by a Bear: Being pulled over by a police officer for speeding or some safety infraction.
Evel Knievel: A lone Police officer on a motorcycle
Ever-ready: armed civilian pretending to be military.
Eyeballs: Cameras or sensors for seeing in your blind spots.
Eye in the Sky: a lightly armed police or TV helicopter taking pictures or video of traffic, or road duels.
Fart Sack: a sleeping bag.
Feeding the Bears: Speeding, driving recklessly, or behaving in manner that will attract the attention of Law Enforcement
Fender Bender: Any accident not caused by combat.
Fifth Wheel: yoke on the back of a tractor where the trailer is attached.
Fifty-Dollar Lane: The inside lane (left most lane) in either direction of an eight-lane highway. (So called because Law Enforcement camped in the Median are most likely to target speeding drivers a/o civilians in that lane).
Fingerprint: Any shipment the driver has to load on to, or more commonly, unload off of the trailer. That is, to put his or her fingerprints on all the boxes.
Firing Phasers: Shooting someone with a laser.
Flag in Five-mile Wind: A 45 MPH speed zone.
Flatbed: a trailer consisting only of a flat platform.
Flip-Flop: Used by truckers to refer to the return trip or traveling back the other way, especially when referring to going home on an outbound run.
Fly: a hijacker or thrill-seeker who drops/climbs onto moving vehicles.
Flying the Coop: Going though an operational weigh station without stopping (legitimate or not). This type of activity is still illegal in the United States and the Free-Oil States for legitimate scales. Most Weigh Stations have weaponry targeted on any entering vehicle. The AADA has reports (under investigation) of local gangs operating formerly abandoned scales for their own purposes.
Flying Donut Catcher: An armed Police helicopter
Fogcutters: headlights.
Football Bat: an individual or way of doing things that is particularly odd. But it works.
Footwarmer: A linear amplifier used to increase CB transmit power. A favorite tool of Alligator Stations, Bucket Mouths and Linear Lungs. Frowned on by most users. A Trucker’s home base will most likely use satellite (as long as they remain operational) communications to stay in touch. also: Kicker.
Four-wheeler: Any passenger vehicle.
Fox Hunt: A direction finding activity using cars and vans fitted with CB radios. The objective of this activity is to use a signal strength meter to triangulate or otherwise locate a hidden transmitter, or “fox”.
Fox in the Hen House: An unmarked law enforcement vehicle.
Fragged: Destroying a vehicle (or pedestrian) with mines or grenades.
Fried: Destroying a vehicle (or pedestrian) with Zap-guns (lasers) or flamethrowers.
Frog: a completely unarmed vehicle.
Frog Farm: an area in which vehicle combat is prohibited by local ordinance.
Front Door: The leading vehicle driver in a group that watches for police officers approaching from the front or officers watching oncoming traffic from the side of the road. This driver gives warning to the others in the group to slow down when speeding. See also Back Door and Rocking Chair.
FUBAR: (F#$&ed/Fouled Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition/Reason).
FUBU: (F#$&ed/Fouled Up Beyond all Understanding).
Full-grown Bear: Veteran police officer.
Funny Papers: A driver’s “legitimate” paper work (whether the load is legitimate or not.
Gag and Puke: A truck stop restaurant, especially one known for its less-than-quality food. Also Choke and Puke
Gator: Chunks of tire on the road. Can bite you if you run it over. Vaguely resembles the back of a gator.
Getting Groceries: stopping for food.
Ghoul: someone who strips wrecks for a living.
Gimme: any toll booth, legal or otherwise.
Go-Go Girls (on the dance floor): A Livestock Truck preferably hauling pigs or cows
Go-go Juice / Motion Lotion – Diesel fuel. Some trucks still operate on diesel. 
Good Buddy: The stereotypical term for a friend or acquaintance on the CB airwaves.
Good Numbers: Well wishes to a fellow brother.
Goon: anyone using the highway for recreational dueling.
(#handle), Got your ears on? / Anybody/Anyone got their ears on?: Asking if a specific person is listening to a given channel / Asking if anyone is listening to a given channel.
Grassy Knoll: The grassy median separating lanes of travel direction on a highway. Especially if snipers are positioned there shooting at Trucks.
Greasy – Icy or slippery conditions due to weather. Under combat conditions it is an “Oil Slick.”
Greener: an obviously armed pedestrian.
Green Machine: Any Military vehicle painted green.
Green Stamped: A legitimate toll road, such as the New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Turnpikes which are all denoted by green route markers.
Green Stamps: Cash money (refers to S&H Green Stamps).
Groceries: Hauling perishable foodstuffs.
Grossed Out: At the vehicle’s GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating). 
Gumball Machine: Police vehicle, especially one with the older-style, dome-shaped red rotating/strobe light commonly mounted on the roof of police cars, which resembles a traditional “penny” gumball machine.
Gumbo Shack: Border patrol stations on the Louisiana–United States border.
Haircut Palace: a low overpass.
Hammer: Gas pedal.
Hammer Down: Speed up. 
Hammer Lane: The left lane of a four-lane highway.
Hand: A person, especially a working person like a hired hand, who rides along as physical help without being a back-up driver or gunner (rare in this day and age).
Handle: Your CB radio nickname.
Hardened Site: a structure usually built and designed to withstand conventional, nuclear, biological and chemical attack.
Harvey: an RV.
Hauling Groceries: Carrying consumer goods
Highway One: where good truckers go when they die.
Hitting the Jackpot: A driver pulled over for a traffic stop by law enforcement. Refers to the siren lights on top of a police cruiser, resembling the bright lights on a casino slot machine.
Hood: A conventional road tractor, with the engine in front of the cab.
Hot Mic: A CB user who monopolizes a radio channel.
Hundred-mile Coffee: Very strong coffee.
IED (Improvised Explosive Device): IEDs are roughly-organized, inexpensive bombs that are be easily modified to exploit an enemy’s vulnerabilities. Usually used by Biker gangs.
Imperial FU: (An Imperial F#$& Up)
Ironclad: a vehicle (especially a large one) that blatantly displays very
heavy weapons and armor. Some “ironclads” are fake.
Jabber / Jabbering Idiot: A CB user transmitting in a foreign language.
Jackknife: when a rig “folds” through accident or careless backing up,
so that the angle between tractor and trailer is less than 90 degrees.
Jawa: term for any combatant stationed out of the desert area, named after the desert-dwelling aliens of “Star Wars.” These can be cycle gangs, four-wheeler smash and grab gangs, or any other desert based threat to the open road.
Juice Box: A tanker hauling perishable liquids preferably juice concentrate to a processing plant.
Kamicar: a vehicle (either manned or remotely piloted) that attacks by
ramming an opponent.
Keeping the Left Door Closed: To make time by not stopping. ie the Driver doesn’t leave the vehicle.
Kicker: A linear amplifier used to increase CB transmit power. A favorite tool of Alligator Stations, Bucket Mouths and Linear Lungs. Frowned on by most users. A Trucker’s home base will most likely use satellite (as long as they remain operational) communications to stay in touch. also Footwarmer.
Kiddie Car: A Schoolbus
Kingpin: the pin on a trailer that fits into a tractor’s fifth wheel.
Klick: Kilometer
Kojak with a Kodak: Police officer running radar.
Laying Smoke: firing smokescreens.
Linear Lungs: Someone swearing on CB/Someone who will not shut up. Similar to “Alligator Station”, but usually refers to a mobile user rather than a base station.
Little Sister: Term of affection for any female member of the Brotherhood.
Local yokel: Local law enforcement
Logrollers: gangs that barricade a road (i.e., with a log) and ambush
vehicles or demand a toll.
Longnose: a tractor in which the engine is out in front of the drivers.
Long Pork: term used when human beings are used for food.
Long Pork Drive-In: remote stretches of the road where desperate individuals will attack your vehicle not for the vehicle or cargo but for the driver and passengers.
Lot Lizard: A prostitute in a rest area or who works the parking area of a truck stop.
Ludicrous Speed: Any vehicle passing by you so fast that you seem to be standing still.
Making the Bladder Gladder: A non-gender specific term for a bathroom break
Mama Bear: A less derogatory term for a female police officer.
Meat Wagon: An ambulance. 
Mech: A drone or radio-controlled vehicle.
Mech-Warrior: a capable mechanic. One who can fix almost any battle related damage.
Milk Bottle: A tanker trailer designed to carry milk.
Miss Piggy: A female police officer (refers to the Muppet character, derived from the pejorative term “pig” for police officers).
Mobile or Portable Barn: A trailer carrying livestock.
Mobile or Portable Parking Lot: a trailer designed to carry automobiles.
Mowing the Lawn: Driving through grass growing in the median.
Mud Duck: A CB user that has a weak signal and they keep trying to talk despite the fact that no one can understand them.
Nap Trap: a non-fortified truck stop, rest area, or seedy motel.
Negatory: No, Negative (often emphatic, like “Hell no”) (also 10-77, or 10-double-7)
Oil Slick: Slick conditions in combat due to the discharge of an oil jet.
On Your Donkey: Following one too close; tailgating. (“You have a sports car ‘on your donkey’.”)
Outdoor TV: A Drive-in movie theater. Not that there’s many left in operation.
Over Your Shoulder / Over Your Donkey: The road behind that one has just traveled. (“How’s it look over your shoulder / over your donkey?”)
Pancake: wrecked vehicle, particularly one that has been flattened.
Papa Bear: A male police officer or police supervisor such as Sergeant or higher rank.
Parking Lot: A car hauler. 
Peanut Butter In Your Ears: Oblivious to or ignoring the CB transmissions of other Truckers.
Pickle Park: Any rest area or truck stop, known mainly for prostitution.
Pig: A less than friendly term for law enforcement. Brothers respect decent, non-corrupt Bears. Pigs are a nuisance to be dealt with.
Piggy Back: Being towed or another truck towing a truck.
Piggy Bank: An armored car specifically carrying currency or things of value.
Pigtails: The cables that supply air and power to a trailer.
Pizza Truck: ambulance.
Plugged In: Recharging your electric power plant.
Polar Bear: A white unmarked police vehicle.
Polish Air Force: Non-Law Enforcement helicopters or helicopter crew.
Ponch and John: Two motorcycle cops riding together.
Portable or Mobile Barn: A trailer carrying livestock.
Portable or Mobile Parking Lot: a trailer designed to carry automobiles.
Pranged: Wrecked due to driver error.
Putt-putt: A civilian motorcycle.
Q-truck: a trailer that is much more heavily armed and armored than it
appears to be. (i.e built by British Intelligence’s Q-Branch)
Reading the Mail: Operator is listening but not actively transmitting.
Red Alert: Warning the convoy or fellow truckers of a perceived threat
Redeye: a policeman who enforces local regulations very strictly.
Reefer: a refrigerated van-type trailer, used for meat, produce, etc. NOT referring to marijuana.
Reservation: Border patrol stations on the Oklahoma–United States border.
Rig: the combination of a tractor and the trailer(s) it is towing.
Road Help: A Hand hired at the job site.
Road Train: A combination of long or short trailers pulled by a single tractor, over 100ft long.
Rocking Chair: The vehicle(s) in a convoy positioned between the Front Door and Back Door drivers. Called the Rocking Chair because drivers in that position of the group can relax while speeding because the Front Door and Back Door drivers are watching for the police and/or threats. Savvy biker gangs will et the front door pass by any traps and attack the Rocking Chair. See also Front Door and Back Door.
Roller Skate: Small car. A VW Beetle is a pregnant Roller Skate.
Rolling Refinery: A Tanker carrying oil or liquid fuel.
Rolling WalMart: Hauling consumer goods.
Rubberneck / Rubberneckers / Rubbernecking: Looking at something on the side of the road, causing a backup. People slowing down to look at something, particularly an accident or the aftermath of a duel.
RV: a “recreational vehicle,” or privately owned bus.
Sailboat Fuel: Hauling an empty trailer.
Salt Shaker: Highway department truck for spreading ice melt chemicals on the road, traditionally salt.
Sandbagging: Listening to CB conversation without participating, despite having the capability of speaking. This is not the same as listening in using a simple receiver, as the person sandbagging can transmit if they want, but chooses not to. It is for the purpose of monitoring CB users for entertainment or for gathering information about the actions of a particular user. Often, CB users “sandbag” to listen to others’ responses to their previous input to a conversation, sometimes referred to a “reading the mail”.
Sardines: civilians riding a bus.
Schneider Egg: An orange traffic barrel.  (Named after the 20th Century trucking company that painted their cabs the same color)
Seat Cover: Driver or a passenger in a civilian vehicle. Usually an attractive member of the opposite sex. Especially one who is scantily-clad or wearing sexy clothing.
Semi: a semi-trailer, that is, a trailer with wheels only on the rear end. Can be used for the tractor/semi-trailer combo.
Semi-pro: Civilian drivers especially pickups congregating with truckers. Usually seeking the protection of the convoy. See also Bush League
Shotgun: A gunner sitting on the passenger side of the vehicle.
Skateboard: A flatbed 10-wheel truck, or flatbed trailer.
Skins: Any air-filled tires.
Sleeper cab: a cab with extra space in back, allowing one driver to sleep.
either while the rig is parked at a truckstop or while a second driver takes over.
Smoked: destroyed by gunfire. Making smokescreens is “laying smoke.”
Smokey: a law enforcement officer, usually a state highway patrolman.
Smokey in a plain brown wrapper: An unmarked law enforcement vehicle.
Smokey with a Customer: Driver being pulled over by a police officer and being given a ticket.
SNAFU: widely used acronym for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fouled Up.
Spitball Fight: Combat between lightly armed vehicles.
Spitball Special: An underarmed vehicle.
Starsky and Hutch: A law enforcement officer and partner in the same vehicle.
Steamroller: To run entirely over a smaller vehicle, destroying it. Usually leaving a “pancake”.
Street Legal: Complying with local weapon or equipment regulations.
Suicide Jockey: A driver who is hauling dangerous goods, such as explosives.
SUSFU: (Situation Unchanged: Still Fouled Up).
Taco Stand: Border patrol stations on the Texas-United States border or the Mexico–United States border.
Tagalong: a civilian vehicle following a big rig for protection.
Tan Cans: Any Military vehicle painted desert brown.
Tank: a bus or tractor with good weapons and armor. This term can be
confusing if, as happens occasionally, a real tank shows up.
Tanker: a trailer comprising a cylindrical tank on wheels, used for hauling
liquids, granular solids, or pressurized gas.
Thermos Bottle: Another term for a tank trailer especially when the cargo is unknown.
Thick Stuff: Bad weather usually heavy fog or heavy rain or heavy snow.
Thumbtacks: spikes.
Tin Can: a vehicle with insufficient armor.
Toasted: Vehicle or pedestrian destroyed by a flamethrower
Toaster: a flamethrower, or a vehicle armed with a flamethrower.
Toothpicks: A load of lumber.
Trailer: any load-carrying vehicle with no motive power of its own.
Strictly speaking, a “trailer” has wheels on its front end while a
“semi-trailer” does not.
Train: A single point of attachment converter dollies to connect semi-trailers together.
Triple Nickle: CB users sometimes migrate to “out of band” channels/frequencies, most famous one being 27.555 MHz also referred to as “triple nickel”, well above the 40ch CB standard allowing for a more private conversation and enhanced radio communications. Modified equipment is required (Mech +3 or higher skill to modify equipment).
Trucker: A professional truck driver. Gunners, bus drivers, etc., are
“brothers” and social equals, but they are not called truckers.
Trucker Trap: Any illegitimate means of getting a truck to stop along the road.
Turkey Hearse: A truck with a load of turkeys headed for slaughter.
Turn and Burn: To return from a destination back to the original starting point of a trip, especially in a hurry and/or non-stop so as not to lose time.
Turtle Race: Two trucks side by side, one trying to pass the other; but both have speed-governors.
Van: A van-type (fully enclosed) semi-trailer, as opposed to a civilian “box” vehicle.
Ventilated: shot full of holes.
Wallpaper: A traffic citation/ticket (especially a speeding ticket).
Wall-to-Wall and Treetop Tall: An exceptionally clear, strong signal/transmission.
Wall-to-Wall Bears: A large number of police vehicles, especially when on a chase.
Watering Hole: Any truckstop. Most usually a non-fortified truckstop. Fortified truckstops are called corrals.
Whiteout: Heavy snow causing bad visibility and hazardous driving conditions.
Wiggle Wagon: Double or triple trailers.
Winchester: Out of ammo.
Yardstick: A mile marker. Not that there’s many left. 
Yard Dog, Goat, Horse, or Mule: A lightly armed and armored terminal tractor mainly used to move trailers in and around the shipping/freight yard.
Zap-gun: laser.
Zipper: Dashed lane divider. 

The 10 Codes
4-10	A reversal of the ten code “10-4,” when asking if someone agrees with something said or if one’s transmission was received. (“That was a nasty wreck. Four-ten?”)
10-1	Receiving poorly
10-2	Receiving well
10-4	Acknowledged; can also be used to denote or emphasize an agreement (“That’s a big 10-4.”).
10-6	Busy; stand by.
10-7	Signing off.
10-8	En route. (“I’m 10-8 to your location.”)
10-9	Last transmission not received; repeat your last transmission.
10-10	CB user will cease broadcasting but will continue to listen. (“I’m 10-10 on the side.”)
10-20	Denotes location, as in identifying one’s location (“My 20 is on Main Street and First”), asking the receiver what their current location or immediate destination is (“What’s your 20?”), or inquiring about the location of a third person (“OK, people, I need a 20 on Little Timmy and fast”).
10-32	Radio check
10-33	Emergency traffic, clear the channel. CB code for Mayday for trucks and police cars.
10-36	Correct time (“Can I get a 10-36?”)
10-41	Driver is signing on or changing the channel on their radio
10-42	An accident
10-70	Report a fire
10-77	No, Negative.
10-100	Restroom break.
10-200	Police needed at ________.

City Nicknames
Angel City	Los Angeles, California
Beantown	Boston, Massachusetts (now widely used among the general public).
Beer Town	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Berta	Alberta.
Big Apple	New York, New York (now widely used among the general public).
Bingo or Bingotown	Binghamton, New York.
Big D / Emerald City	Dallas, Texas (now widely used among the general public in “North Texas”)
Brickyard	The radioactive waste of what used to be Indianapolis, Indiana
The Bubbly	Champaign, Illinois.
Cereal City	Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Three of the top four cereal producers have plants in or near the city)
Chocolate Town	Hershey, Pennsylvania (reference to Hershey’s Chocolate’s; now widely used among the general public)
Choo Choo Town/Tow City/ Chatty	Chattanooga, Tennessee (After the song “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”) (in reference to Miller Industries and being the birthplace of the Tow Truck)
Corn Patch	The Midwest.
Cow Town	Fort Worth, Texas. Or Calgary, Alberta.
Crash City	Midville, Ohio for the UBN series of the same name filmed on location there.
Crashville	Nashville, Tennessee.
Derby City/Derby Town	Louisville, Kentucky.
The Dime	Interstate 10
Disney Town	Anaheim, California.
Flagtown	Flagstaff, Arizona.
Flower City	Rochester, New York
Flying Hook	Flying J Truckstop chain
Fort God	Memphis, Tennessee.
Gateway/Arch Town/The Big Arch	St. Louis, Missouri.
Ghost Town	Casper, Wyoming
Guitar Town	Nashville, Tennessee.
Gunspoint	Greenspoint (an area of Houston, Texas).
Hippie Haven / Bat City / Waterloo	Austin, Texas.
Hog Town	Toronto, Ontario.
Hotlanta	Atlanta, Georgia (now widely used among the general public).
H-Town/Astrodome/Space City/The Oil Patch	Houston, Texas. (reference to the oil industry, Johnson Space Center, and the Houston Astrodome)
Idiot Island	California.
The Ike Highway	Interstate 80 California, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming, Interstate 25 from Cheyenne to Denver,and Interstate 70 from Denver to Baltimore as shown on signs saying Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway.
Job Town	Clinton, New Jersey.
Little Cuba	Miami, Florida
Lost Wages/Sin City/Dice Town/Gambling Town	Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mardi Gras/Crescent City	New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mickey Mouse	Orlando, Florida (a reference to Walt Disney World resort). Also Anaheim, California
Mile High	Denver, Colorado (now widely used among the general public as “The Mile High City”).
Monkey Town	Montgomery, Alabama (‘Monkey’ being diminutive form of ‘Montgomery’).
Motor City	Detroit, Michigan (now widely used among the general public).
The Mother Road	Route 66 a/o Interstate 44
Nickel Road	Interstate 5
The Pokey	Pocatello, Idaho
Queen City	Charlotte, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio; Springfield, Missouri; or Buffalo, New York.
Quarterback	Interstate 25
Red Stick	Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Rhymes with Fun	Regina, Saskatchewan.
Ripoff Griffin’s	Rip Griffin’s, a well known truck stop outside Dallas. (still in operation)
Rock City	Little Rock, Arkansas.
Salty	Salt Lake City, Utah (a reference to the Great Salt Lake)
Shakey City or Shakeytown	Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California or anywhere in Southern California (a reference to earthquakes).
Silly Circle	The Capital Beltway, a beltway around Washington, D.C., running through Virginia and Maryland.
Stack of Bricks	A house or home (“I’m heading back to my stack of bricks”).
Steam Town	Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Steel City	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (now widely used among the general public).
The Sticker Patch	Phoenix, Arizona (a reference to the cacti in the area).
Spud Town	Boise, Idaho.
T Town	Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas or Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Three Sisters	Three large hills on I-80E between Salt Lake City, Utah and Fort Bridger, Wyoming. (Now used by the general public.) May be related to the “three sisters” rogue wave on Lake Superior.
Tonto	Toronto, Ontario.
TV Town	Another name for Midville, OH because of it’s fame as the location of UBN’s “Crash City”
Taco Town / Alamo City	San Antonio, Texas.
UFO Central	Roswell, New Mexico, Nevada State Route 375, and Area 51 or any area where UFOs have been sighted.
Windy City	Chicago, Illinois (now widely used among the general public).

Break 1-9 for that blister jockey on I44. Got yer ears on, brother?

Go break

Yeah you got BJ and Mackie here in the Red and White KW cabover about half a klick from your back door.

You got the Punisher here, what can I do for you BJ?

I got a box o’ camel jockeys on my tail. The varmints took out my rear eyeballs about 10 klicks back and have been stayin’ in my blind spot ever since.

So take ’em out.

I would if I could Punisher, but I’ve been Winchester on my rear weapons just outside Springfield and Mary’ll have my hide if anything damages this cargo. I’ve got to be in Ballard tonight.

I see ’em brother. How about you just ease up on our backdoor and we’ll take care of your problem for ya.

Much obliged Punisher, much obliged.

Thank you to John Helton, Ken Putsky, John Helton, @CarCombatCentral, Peter Jansen @Omicron416, Mark Grocki, and, Robert Cester for their help with this article.

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