Drivecam

Someone said that FFE is putting cameras in the cab to watch the drivers too...that's just plain sick in my estimation.

 

On the drivecam issue....Did you protest and request to get "Grandfathered In", might be worth a shot. I know that when I hired on it was not a condition for employment or elogs for that matter.

 

I know that if there were a drivecam in my truck, had I truck to drive, it would NEVER be functional. "Heh, sorry boss! There must be a mouse in here someplace that keeps chewing through those wires!"

 

####, and I used to think, well still do, that Schneiders "check rides" were an insult. You don't trust me to drive your truck, then I don't need to be working for you. You can't even hardly justify working for these nit-wit mega carriers anymore.

 

Most drive cams don't record all the time just 8 or 10 seconds half before half after a event like hard brake or hard turn big bumps need to jar the camera to activate them

 

OK, I was wondering why they put the cameras in their trucks aimed at drivers. I thought maybe they didn't trust them to stay awake or something.

 

On the main Crete thread, one of the regular posters was saying a driver got fired for not wearing his seatbelt while sliding his tandems. The jar of the tandems hitting their rear most position tripped the cam, no seat belt, and fired. Nobody puts their seatbelt on while sliding tandems.

 

Nope, I'm too busy jumping in and out of the truck to put a seatbelt on, that would be crazy. That's the problem with non-drivers running trucking companies.

 

Untrue, they record constantly. When triggered, the camera will SAVE the data which was RECORDED in that timeframe. A device cannot go backward in time and spontaneously "record" an event.