Best way to disable a driver facing camera

Well, in that case... just need a hammer.

No such thing as a lazer, by the way.
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Laser

 

Tape.

 

thank you very useful

 

OK, this thread I kind of viewed more as some real information and also some joking around as do most subjects like this. Reality is if you go try and disable the camera system, you’re gonna be rightfully terminated. If you work for a company that has a camera pointing in your face and you don’t like it, pick a different company. Anyone that doesn’t have at least an outward facing camera system these days on their truck is foolish. Especially the way the roads are today.

That said, the fact of the matter is these cam systems are designed to record in intervals when there’s an incident. Hard braking, an accident, and so forth. They recird. However, and this is a big however, I also know for fact that at most companies, the safety manager, and usually maybe a few other executives, have a passcode to the systems. And they can in fact watch you anytime they wish. Do they do that? Probably don’t have time for it in most cases. But if they suspect you’re doing something that you’re not supposed to they might just do that. Are they supposed to watch you when you’re off duty? No, they’re not. Are some of these people that hold these positions. Humans and their own personal curiosity might take over? Of course. When you’re off duty cover the camera. They can’t really say anything about that because you’re not driving. Do not cover or block the outbound camera , because someone might smack into your truck in the middle of the night and you would want that recorded otherwise you might get blamed for it. The first five years that I was in trucking, I drove for companies that had driver facing cameras and to be honest with you I just completely forgot they were there, I didn’t care. I was never once confronted about anything. Not a single time.

 

I agree.
The company I drive for has had driver cameras for five years now.
I let the “safety “ manager know that if I ever found a video on the internet, Facebook etc. of me without my permission, I would own the company.
And none of you would want to work for me.

 

A camera being installed without the driver signing a form indicating he has been notified and consents to being recorded is as rare as bigfoot in a casino winning at the slot machines. Almost certainly you can block the camera when you park to preserve driver privacy during non-driving activity. That's doesn't take a SEAL Team or Mission Impossible levels of technology or computer hacking. Duct tape will do.

If there was an easy and undetectable way to disable the camera would this thread have gone on for YEARS?

 

Well that happened to me at Gulf Relay. My old truck didn't have that, my new truck did. I climbed in and said wow, a brand new truck. Whoa, what the **ck is this? Who taped this camera right on the dash behind the steering wheel?

 

.410 with #6 shot, because a 12 Ga would just be overkill.

 

This is all just sleight of hand to get truckers to worry about the wrong things so they can push the really bad things off in misdirection of thought. They try, for example, to make everyone worry about an inward camera seeing someone nude. This is really dumb. If the management wants to see people nude, don't you think they can just go to Porn Hub? Why would they want to see some old greasy trucker undress instead of some hot guy or gal that actually looks good? Well they milk this hype for all it's worth and plenty of truckers fall for it. Then they get the trucker to "compromise" by saying, "I don't care if you have an outward facing camera as long as you don't look at me inside the truck". Pretty arrogant to think anyone even wants to look at them. But this is how they get the trucker to agree to an outward-facing camera when the real problem is an outward facing camera that broadcasts the trucker's action in real-time to the internet.
This happens all the time in the sales world. How about those tip machines that ask you if you want to leave a 20, 25, or 30% tip? As if the idea of either leaving 15% or no tip at all is out of the question (especially in places that it was never traditional to tip). People fall for false choice paradigms all the time.

I don't have a problem with an inward facing camera, even in real-time. Nobody wants to look at me. If they do, that's their problem, not mine. I don't have a problem with an outward-facing camera. I have a problem with an outward-facing camera sending footage to the internet in real-time. I want the data to remain local in the truck. The camera only tells the company what happened, and never why it happened. It assumes that laws are always 100% correct, even if they passed a lawmaking authority 49%–51% for approval. It is constantly treating people negatively—many of which are living very unhappy lives with innuendos that they can't do their job right, or that they never do anything right. This isn't something you are going to fix by giving a trucker a hot dog on trucker hot dog day. Cameras have proven that they work. Millions of trucks have stopped getting in accidents, because nobody drives them any more, and there is no safer place for a truck than to be parked permanently at the terminal parking lot.