CB Radio Name Generator

A CB handle is the on-air nickname you use instead of your real name on citizens band radio. The FCC dropped the licence requirement in 1983, but the handle tradition dates to the 1970s boom, when the 55 mph limit pushed truckers onto channel 19 and Convoy, Smokey and the Bandit and C.W. McCall made Rubber Duck and Pig Pen household names. Today CB is still used by truckers, Jeep and 4x4 clubs on trail channels, RV caravans, farmers and storm spotters, and every one of them needs a handle.

Good handles follow a few conventions. They are short, usually one to four syllables, because they have to be understood through static, engine noise and cheap speakers. They are often built from radio slang (Skip Shooter, Dead Key, Sideband Sid), from the driver's rig or job (Coal Roller, Forklift Fran, Bulldozer Bill), from where they live (Bayou Belle, Tumbleweed Tex, Great Lakes Greg) or from an animal or weather word that sounds tough or funny (Copperhead, Thunderhead, Whistle Pig). The alliterative descriptor-plus-first-name pattern is the most recognisable 70s style.

This generator mixes all of those styles, plus off-road, RV and ham-adjacent flavours. Say the candidates out loud in a fake radio voice; the one that survives being shortened by other drivers is your handle.