Travelling on the kluskus one time I was almost hit by a lowbed that wasn't calling empty on a sunday.
I asked him why he wasn't calling and he said cause we don't call empty on this rd and besides he knew where I was.

lostfaith, are you saying the lowbed was wrong? There is a reason why empty traffic does not call kms. I have hauled logs for 24 years and calling empty kms adds to radio clutter and confusion, two things that are very dangerous on a busy haul road.

On a busy haul road ok fine, but there was no one else calling coming in or out and we never saw another vehicle the entire trip. The lowbed came around the corner on my side of the road and nearly took out my family and I and our $75,000.00 truck and trailer.
He knew where we were, but we had no idea that he was even on the road.
Definitely he was wrong.

Reading your account of your incident lostfaith, the lowbed had made errors in basic driving etiquette {staying on his own side of the road and not clearing the loaded traffic[loaded being you]}, his radio procedures seem correct. As for you not knowing where he is is irrelevant, had he driven with basic haul road etiquette no incident would have occured.

if you don't call the empties than the empties are to get out of the way of the the persons the are calling kilometers. I think in this case the lowbed driver knew it was a camper and just ignored common road etiquette

We are always in with the logging trucks and forest workers in the winter time.

We always watch for the posted freq's and change over. But it looks like going to the governement experimental radio areas should be dangerous as no one knows what the heck freq rr-10a will be. Why not just use english language and the numerical system for signage so we can pump the numbers in as we travel to the different areas?

It always amazes me that the consulatants think hieroglyphics are the only way to go in the future. That way people can write information down in english, or whatever, in their notes to remember what the hieroglyph conversion means in english.

The radios need to have the frequencies programmed in, and codes are not accepted. Radios don't know what hieroglyph are.

Radio's also don't have unlimited space, so we program as we change areas. Now that the frequencies no longer have names, I'm wondering how long before the lakes and mountains get changed to some code.

Then the government could issue a book with what codes match which lakes by GPS location. That should keep your secret fish lake a secret! Know one will know what lake or river you are talking about anymore! I'm going fishing at 74^ eef-9. And then over to 88:34.a~p to fish for tet:m7 because they smoke up better than ret:f4 fish. Have you had any?

That is exactly right downnotout, radio procedures aside the lowbed drivers driving professionalism was amateur.

Under the new system- user's will call up or down - empty or loaded will no longer used- in addition to company channels the new channels will striclty be used for calling road km's and in addition their will be some common loading channels. It means I now have four anntenna's on my truck.