Camera? Not on my watch

... With a micro chip they won't even need a dedicated drone
Yet you without it, you won't be able to buy or sell.
... You would think with all this technology and prosperity, men's heart would grow warmer & satisfied
....... Hmmmm

 

$160,000 truck eh? Seems you are overpaying quite a bit for your tractors! Don't mean to be rude, but I know some of the prices that some of the big-boys are paying, and you can't tell me you are paying almost double.

 

that's about the going rate for a 2016 Freightliner Cascadia sleeper..

 

As a driver with a camera in my truck, I frequently find myself cussing out other drivers and then looking to the camera for affirmation. Looking straight into the camera, I'll scream, "You saw it right!? Look what that idiot did.." I'm trying to make management uncomfortable.

 

... I hear that song by
The police
" I'll be watching you "
My company has GPS on all of us drivers, I don't mind if they look at me from the sky... But don't stick a camera in my face!!!
I would even perfer 360 outside view cameras on my rig, if they really want to talk safety & lawsuit prevention

 

Wanna know what really makes trucking safe?

Not climbing in the cab and leaving the rig parked.

 

Now if it could only make trucking as lucrative as it did safe. We'd all be parked millionaires inside of a week.

 

I drive local and have a dash cam, it's so sensitive mine goes off every decent bump, making a turn and drop+hook. Records for 14 seconds, front facing, facing me and runs sound.. It started as a only serious accident thing (when we got em they said there just there to save out butts in a accident) but has turned into the man trying to nit pick driving habits from a cubicle. I.e. Seatbelt in parking lots(no bs) and the list goes on of nit picking from the company handbook, even had the safety guy joke with me about private phone conversations (Bluetooth only) I have had when the camera is recording. If I was otr again the dash cam would definetley be a deal breaker but willing to put up with a little more to go home everyday. The sound from the dash cam bothers me the worst. I have buddies at other companies with em and theirs aren't as sensitive as ours, they say theirs only record for critical events. (Maybe better but still got the man holding your hand). The other night at work I counted 16 times(@14seconds)the cam recorded, wouldn't be as bad if the commies I worked for didn't have em so sensitive and they didn't record sound. Maybe I'm still stuck in the past with the truck being my personal space. Rant over. On a side note our cams are easy to unplug, may be next course of action if they get to carried away. It isn't like trucking companies fire anyone. Lol

 

At my company they don't record sound and they cannot remotely access them, but must remove the chip to get the data. On many of the cameras, an error message is displayed just under the camera lens which states the recording device is full. I don't mind it so much but god help them if they ever start to let on that they abuse this camera for anything other than its intended purpose.