General
breaker
What does breaker mean?
A driver requesting permission to start a transmission or join an ongoing conversation on a CB channel. Polite radio etiquette — you announce yourself instead of stomping on someone else's signal.
"Breaker one-nine, this is Rolling Thunder, anybody got a smokey report for the I-40 westbound?"
Origin
CB etiquette term from the 1960s–70s. "Break" the existing transmission to ask if you can join. "Breaker one-nine" — break into channel 19, the unofficial trucker channel — became the iconic CB opener, immortalized in the 1975 song "Convoy" by C.W. McCall.
Frequently asked questions
What does breaker mean on CB radio?
'Breaker' is how you ask permission to cut in on a CB radio channel.
How do you use breaker in a sentence?
"Breaker one-nine, anybody got a copy on the traffic ahead?"
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