I would rather be just like another trucker in due respectWell, I would stay away from those non-type accepted Galaxys then (you did know that technically they can't be sold in the US?)! Just sayin ...
I am reading up about the HF stuff here, maybe for my location here in Alaska something more global would be better, I do have 8 acres and lots of trees with a cleared area and having a very tall radio mast or a wire antenna would be no problem.
But for the average person that is probably affected by the economy I still think a halfway decent cheap CB from a chain store would be sufficient to use in case of an emergency, and way too common to be effectively jammed.