Camera's are coming to a truck near you or Yours.

They want to create a driver shortage to push their own cheap labor agenda. If they can put in these cameras that are basically both demeaning and harassing they will drive even more people out of the seats. Then they can turn around and cry even more about the driver shortage and lobby Washington DC to even drop English language requirements so they can fill all their empty seats. In the short term their bottom line will be hurt but they aren't looking short term here. It has absolutely nothing to do with safety.

 

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My last check was $840 after taxes and health insurance.
That was for a 2800 mile week.
Personally I don't see a problem.
I know I could make a bit more somewhere else, but money is not (has never been) my first concern. I like it here, which is why I stay.

I do have a problem with a camera staring at me.
If they put me in one of those well equipped trucks I'll first put tape over the inside lens.
If they yell about it I'll move on to other pastures, and they'll lose yet another long term (and very safe) driver.

 

Hi moosetek, I know you want to be defiant, and I agree with you, but you put tape over the lens, they'll fire you and pay some newbie half of what they are paying you, maybe their intent all along.

 

The only drivers that swift and other lowlife companies will be able to hire after installing cameras in their cabs will be unsuspecting, trucking school graduates who have no idea what they are getting into. That is why all of us experienced drivers need to find ways of talking to students of truck driving schools and educating them about companies like swift transportation, Stevens transport, etc, and all of the other lowlife companies in the industry. These companies prey on desperate, unsuspecting inexperienced drivers and use this to their advantage to screw the rest of us. It's like a disease that spreads from one company to the next throughout the industry. That is why it is next to impossible to find a descent company to work for and so many drivers get completely screwed on a regular basis. If we as drivers do not educate the unsuspecting new drivers then it will only continue to get worse. The whole #### industry thrives off of it to drive down wages to drive up their profits and to put their self into a position where they are held less accountable for their actions. Even what once were the good, descent companies, use this to their advantage and ride on the backs of the scumbag companies who instigate it and perpetuate it. the industry as a whole is on a mission to take any and all control away from the drivers so that the industry has complete control. it almost like a military or prison type mentality. but all of us drivers need to take back the power and let these companies know, that without our ##### in the seat and behind the wheel, that their trucks are nothing more than a giant piece of scrap metal. If we all stuck together, and walk out and shut down the transportation industry for just one week, we could kill their profits and hit them where it hurts the most. The problem is that the trucking companies know that if we leave, one or two drivers at a time, they have a revolving door,with driver student graduates to replace us at ant time, a lower pay level, and with less knowledge,and experience which gives the trucking company even greater power, leverage, intimidation and control. That is why we as experienced drivers need to get to, and communicate to, and inform all of these student drivers that are in these trucking schools, as to exactly what is going on and what they are getting into. As long as the trucking industry has a vast selection of ignorant, unsuspecting " suckers " to prey on, then it will only become a bigger monster. there is one born every minute and they will only keep coming with every generation. We need to scare them straight.