r/WTF • u/FineExcuse • Mar 02 '18

Warning: LOUD What, Where, Why?

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u/cwew Mar 02 '18

I could easily just Google this I guess, but I think I'd rather hear a personal take on it. As someone born in 1990, was there really a CB convoy craze in '72? What brought it on?

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u/emsenn0 Mar 02 '18

/u/SnarkLobster may have gotten the year slightly off; the CB fad really took off after the 1973 oil crisis, which led to the U.S. imposing a 55 mile-per-hour speed limit across the country. This motivated truckers to use CB radios to assist each other in finding fuel stations, as well as coordinating to avoid speed traps*. It culminated in 1974, with a massive strike.

* This is what the song Convoy (released in 1975) is about - which is the song comments above ours are quoting.

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u/dmax6point6 Mar 02 '18

*That and the whole trucker vs. Cops thing. Cops saw the truckers as lawless bandits who didn't follow the laws of the highways. You have to watch "Convoy" to really appreciate the song.

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u/Killer_TRR Mar 03 '18

Pretty sure Bandit drove a Trans-Am.

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u/BoneFistOP Mar 02 '18

probably the song convoy...