Caught on cam using phone at zero tolerance company

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  1. scott180

    scott180 Road Train Member

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    Dude, how much stuff did ya hit‽ :p
     
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  3. Tumbleweed TowMan

    Tumbleweed TowMan Medium Load Member

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    LMAO

    Touche'!

    :biggrin_1square7:
     
  4. TankerYanker36

    TankerYanker36 Light Load Member

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    New company. It's a local job but the company is giant. I'm trying to avoid saying the company name at the moment.
     
  5. Moose1958

    Moose1958 Road Train Member

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    I have never been a big fan of zero tolerance policies. Not long ago I was reading something a safety director wrote about how he handled this issue. He was sitting in the break room sipping some coffee when he noticed a driver enter the safety offices. He called out to the driver and stopped him at the door. Kept it short and sweet. Do it again and you're gone, and I will hot foot your records. I think the message was received and hopefully learned.
     
  6. smokey12

    smokey12 Road Train Member

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    Nah that's good intentions but this advice would likely be best..looking back if I ever had to ask this question it seems I always regretted opening my mouf. Screenshot_20220717-151100.png Screenshot_20220717-151100.png
     
  7. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    I didn't read all the replies so it may have been mentioned.

    The camera is always recording, not just when the light comes on.
    The light comes on when it is saving an event (video clip, usually 10 seconds before and 10 seconds after the triggering event) to a separate folder, where it will be saved for however long it might be needed.
    All the other footage is on a first in first out loop of small clips. The oldest is overwritten by the newest, and how long is stored depends on how much memory/storage space is allocated.

    So they can go back to older footage and see exactly how often you have used your phone and what you were doing prior to that event.
     
  8. Tumbleweed TowMan

    Tumbleweed TowMan Medium Load Member

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    Yup!

    I have a cheaper-end cam, it accepts up to a 32gb chip, that relates as 4hr single cam, 2 for double if on the same unit.

    I am only assuming a higher-end unit would accept a higher capacity chip.

    Being my device, I am free to set the unit to record-or-not upon incursion, which I do indeed have set to low impact needed to store that clip - I know I run proper, jump & brake check my front chrome and it's time for Alan Funt!
     
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  9. F4T6UY

    F4T6UY Medium Load Member

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    Ha! You know you’re old when you recognize that reference.
     
  10. Tumbleweed TowMan

    Tumbleweed TowMan Medium Load Member

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    :occasion5:
     
  11. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    in all my 48 years..???

    raccoons, a coyote, skunks, possums, road full of mice (Texas on I-40) squirrels, a few deer, a construction cone or 7, knock over a construction barrel or 5, or 9, and in the yard, i rubbed up against a guard rail. just regular stuff.

    if it did any damage, i owed up to it....like the rubbing of the guard rail.

    that's where a company RAT could have ran up to the TM, (he saw me) i wasn't gonna give him that chance.

    always just got a, " like WTF Buddy, get back to work"

    i was a senior driver......it had it's perks.

    i had marker pen "kills" of animals and cones on my left fender. just tiny little x's......
     
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