Summer is the season for family road trips here in the US, and my family took to the open road in a big way this year. We pulled off a cross-country relocation, from Connecticut to Idaho.

While CB radios are no longer the mainstream communication tool they once were, they can still be found easily in several areas. Many truck drivers rely heavily on CB radios to communicate with ...

With a range of approximately five miles, CB radios were popular with truck drivers in the 1970s and 1980s until mostly giving way to cellphones. See ISM band and personal radio services.

Like CB radios, will the modern technology filling cabs today eventually be deemed a distraction and no longer installed?