alligator bait - bits and pieces of a blown tire.
at your back door - behind a truck. "You got a bear at your back door." Ant. front door: front of a truck.
back row - the area at some truck stops where hookers hang out.
Bambi - a deer, whether dead or alive.
bear/Smokey - a county or state cop.
bedbuggers - moving companies.
bear in the air - a police airplane that monitors highway speeds below.
big/tall rubber - 24-inch tires.
bingo cards - paper cards that hold trucking permits from various states.
Bluebird - A Martin Truck company's truck. Named because of bird painted on the side of the trailers.
bobtail - running without a trailer.
boogie - top gear. "I've got 'er up into boogie now."
brake check - a sudden slowdown in traffic, where you have to hit the brakes.
Bulldog - a Mack truck.
bumper sticker - an automobile following you too closely. Syn. - hitchhiker.
bundled out - loaded very full.
Cabbage - a long steep incline in eastern Oregon. "I smoked the brakes comin' off of Cabbage."
cash register - a toll booth. "You're coming up on a cash register at yardstick 154."
chicken lights - extra lights on the truck and trailer.
city kitty - a female city police officer.
comedian - the median strip.
comic/funny book - a Department of Transportation logbook, required by law.
coop/chicken coop - a weigh station.
Corn Flake - a Consolidated Freightways truck.
county mountie - a sheriff. Syn. - local yokel.
covered wagon - a gravel trailer topped with a tarp
. crotch rocket - a motorcycle. Syn. - murdercycle.
destruction - road construction.
double nickel - 55 miles per hour, the speed limit.
down stroke - a hill going down. Ant. - up stroke: a hill going up.
dragon wagon - Tow Truck.
dragon fly - a truck with no power, i.e. drag up hill, fly down hill.
dry box - a freight trailer. Syn. - van.
18-wheeler - any articulated truck (even though many have fewer or more than 18 wheels).
4-wheeler - a passenger car.
Evil Kenivel - a motorcycle cop.
FreightShaker - a Freightliner truck.
garbage - produce, i.e. hauling garbage.
gearjammer/gearslammer - a speeding truck driver, one known to accelerate/decelerate quickly.
General Mess of Crap - GMC trucks by Volvo/White.
Georgia Overdrive - neutral gear.
good buddy - a homosexual.
go to the Harley - to put your CB on channel 1.
go to double Harley - to turn the CB to channel 11.
got your ears on expression - used when looking for someone on the CB. "Hey HT, you got your ears on?"
gouge on it - go fast, step on it.
granny lane - the right, slow lane on an interstate highway or freeway.
greasy side up - when a car or truck has flipped over. "There's a 4-wheeler with the greasy side up."
green stamps - money, usually tolls.
ground pressure - weight. "The coop is just checking ground presssure; no sweat."
gumball machine - lights on top of a police cruiser. "He's got his gumball machine going."
hammer down - go fast, step on it.
hammer lane - the fast, passing lane on an interstate highway or freeway. Syn. - bumper lane.
haulin' dispatcher brains - pulling an empty trailer, deadheading. Syn. - haulin' sailboat fuel.
have shutter trouble - to fall asleep. "He ran off the road. Must of had shutter trouble."
hit the jackpot - when police lights are flashing. - "Looks like someone hit the jackpot."
Ho Chi Minh Trail - California Highway 152, which has heavy traffic and is a "minefield" of accidents.
hood - any conventional tractor, as opposed to a cab-over. Syn. - long-nose. hook n. - a tow truck.
$100 lane - the left lane of a highway or freeway that has more than two lanes in each direction.
in the big hole - in top gear.
Kenworthless - a Kenworth truck. Syn. - K-Whopper.
Kojak with a Kodak - a police officer with a radar gun. "There's a Kojak with a Kodak behind the overpass."
large car - a big, fancy truck.
Left Coast - the West Coast.
lot lizard - a truck-stop hooker. "Wow, get a load of the lot lizards in the back row! Of course, they'll all scramble for cover when the sun comes up."
mardi gras - welfare cheque day
meat wagon - ambulance.
mission - a rush load. "I'm on a mission today."
motion lotion - fuel.
parking lot - a truck carrying automobiles. Also, a traffic back-up.
pickle park - a rest area or roadside park, often a hangout for hookers.
plain white wrapper - an unmarked police car.
power up - go fast, step on it.
pumpkin - Schneider company trucks. So named because of their bright orange color.
reefer - a refrigerated cargo trailer. "The sign at the front desk at Motel 6 says, 'No running reefers after 9 p.m.'"
road pizza - a badly mangled road kill.
rollerskate - any small car. Originally referred to a Volkswagen.
salt shaker - a snow plow.
sand box - a gravel trailer. Syn. - coal bucket.
Schneider eggs - orange drums used by road work crews to block off a lane. They're the same color as Schneider company trucks.
scoot - a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Sesame Street - CB channel 19. Named so because of child-like behavior that sometimes occurs. Especially around urban areas.
Shakey Side - the West Coast of the US.
she bear - a female cop.
shoot you in the back - when a hidden highway cop uses a radar gun after you pass. "You got a bear settin' under the bridge who's gonna shoot you in the back when you go by."
skate board - a flatbed trailer.
skins - tires. Syn. - rubbers.
Slow Wheels In Fast Traffic - another name for SWIFT company's trucks.
small rubber - 22-inch tires.
smokin' scooter - a motorcycle cop. Syn. - Evel Knievel.
stagecoach - a tour bus.
Sure Wish I'd'a Faster Truck - the SWIFT company's trucks.
swamp donkey - a moose.
swinging - carrying a load of carcass beef.
taking pictures - when a cop is using radar equipment. "There's a smokin' scooter taking pictures at yardstick 25."
thermos bottle - a tanker trailer. Syn. - pipeline, portable gas station.
too many eggs in the basket - overweight.
toothpicks - lumber. "I got a load of toothpicks."
travel agent - dispatcher.
triple digit ride - a truck that can exceed 100 miles per hour.
VW - a Volvo/White tractor.
Wally World - a Wal-Mart truck, store or dist. center.
West Coast turnarounds - benzedrine pills, speed. So called because a driver could theoretically take some and drive from the East Coast to the West Coast, turn around, and drive back east without stopping to sleep.
wiggle wagons - double or triple trailers. Syn. - pups, rolling trouble, snakes, wasp-waists.
yardstick - a mile marker alongside a highway.
Air Capitol: Wichita, Kansas
Armadillo: Amarillo, Texas
The Alamo: San Antonio, Texas
The Astrodome: Houston, Texas
The Apple: New York, New York
Bean Town: Boston, Maryland
Big D: Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Big O: Omaha, Nebraska
The Bikini: Miami, FL or Florida in general
Bright Lights: Kansas City, Missouri
CB Town: Council Bluffs, Iowa
Cigar City: Tampa, Florida
Circle City: Indianapolis, Indiana
The Cities: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Cow Town: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(The) Flag: Flagstaff, Arizona
The Friendly: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(The) Gateway: St. Louis, Missouri
Gay Bay: San Francisco, California
Guitar: Nashville, Tennessee
Hog Town: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hotlanta: Atlanta, Georgia
Irish: South Bend, Indiana
Mardi Gras: New Orleans, Louisiana
Mile High: Denver, Colorado
Music City: Nashville, Tennessee
The Big Smoke: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The Dirty: Cleveland, Ohio
The Mistake on the Lake: Erie, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, OH...and every other city on the Great Lakes
The Nickel: Buffalo, New York
The Peg: Winnipeg
Philly: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Rubber: Akron, Ohio
Shaky City: Los Angeles, California (aka Lost Angels, Lower Arkansas)
Smoke City: Birmingham, Alabama
Steel City/Town: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Swamp: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Windy: Chicago, Illinois
