I don’t know about your area but around here a lot of people use “race radios” and or MURS radios. Basically a VHF radio for frequencies in or around the 151-157 mhz range.
It’s a lot more popular than CB around here… might be worth considering something like this as well.
The antenna requires are also far smaller and easy to find a quality handheld that will work a lot better than CB.