My dad had Petes, Kens, and Freightshakers. I feel dirty for not having a good CB in either truck. He even let me drive fully loaded from a dead stop. I was scared shitless even though I was squarely in my own lane. When I parked, I nailed it. Bobtail was easy peasy. May have a rig of my own some day to deal with the race car crap. They get the same mpg as a diesel pickup truck but are severely undertasked with the trailer.
Trucking blood ran literally all the way through my family, father's grandpa (the one who gave me the plate) has driven ever since he was 18, he's "retired" now but still hauls Ag products all around West Central Iowa at almost 80 years old, and there's almost 3 generations of trucking on my mother's side, her dad owned his own company and ran almost all of the Midwest before he passed away from cancer, and her uncles on both sides ran trucking companies too.
I wanted to be a trucker for as long as I can remember; but now with all the regulations, bullshit laws, and all the other crap, I've damn near given up on that dream.
And I've got a CB in my truck, I just don't have it hooked up yet. I think it's a necessity for any truck really. And on the buying a road tractor to pull a racecar trailer, you can pick up bobtails for literally half or quarter of a decent diesel truck.