From reader:

Hi there,
I was living in Ireland when that movie came out. Instantly, and I mean *instantly*, everybody I knew had CB radios. If you were going to the US for the summer to work on a J1 visa, or if you had relatives coming over for a visit, you had people breaking down your door begging you to get them a CB radio.
Of course, under Irish law use of a CB radio meant operating an unlicensed (and unlicensable) radio transmitter, but no matter. Suddenly, every Irish male from 16 to 26 was using trucker slang and a Kris Kristoffersen accent. Rarely have I seen a movie have such an impact on the popular culture. I will never forget the first time I heard my friend Liam Hastings refer to a pig as a “Go-go girl”.
A couple of years later, graduated from university, I was living in England and working for Digital Equipment Corporation in Reading. The CB craze was there, too! Mind you, it wasn’t quite so obvious (England having 20x the population of Ireland, there’s a lot of room to hide a CB), but it was there. And just as unlicensed.
Ah, memories.
So, here’s to a gunny sack full of awesome!