CB or Better?

When I was a teenager I had a hopped up Cobra 142 GTL that I would shoot skip on SSB and talk around the world. It could go about 80 channels above Channel 40. I think it's still done on the illegal channels and on Ham radios, but the standard CB channels are full of A holes. Not to mention skip is coming back in so bad it's hard to talk past a mile or so during the day. I'm a truck driver by the way, that's the only reason I still know anything about it.

To answer your SSB question, there are a lot of standard CB radios that have both AM and SSB. Not as common as it use to be, but they still sell them.