Does Millisecond have camera's in truck ?

The lawyer would probably win because with new 30 min break rule you'd be in violation if you had a straight 9 hours on line 3.......assuming that is what you meant.

 

Why are you considering a trucking career? I thought aircraft mechanics made a good living? I'd much rather fly than drive.

Cameras are on us pretty much everywhere we go. I favor cameras in trucks. Especially in light of the recent event in which a driver was cruising Facebook while driving and killed a LEO. If you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about.

I was told that our cameras are set off in the event of a collision, hard brake or hard acceleration. I know that isn't the case because I was called into safety a few months back to review an event. Our safety guy looked at the notes (driver on cell phone) and upon reviewing the video it showed me parked on a gravel road in the middle of a farm field on my phone. My safety guy just mumbled a few words about the incompetence of the service they use to flag events and sent me on my way.

 

I feel the same way. A forward facing camera, along with proven accident investigation techniques is more then adequate to determine fault.

But I would be interested in hearing examples on how a camera facing the driver can exonerate that driver post accident.

It's one thing to be observed on camera walking through a department store... Few people are subjected to a camera in their face several, several hours a day. And as you went on to point out, someone is obviously observing you on more then just critical events.

It would have been discovered the driver was on facebook regardless of the camera. And I can't help but notice the camera didn't stop the driver from playing with his phone in the first place.

I've already pointed out one example, but sure... you're right. If you don't do ANYTHING wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Better have your hands at ten and two, Scan your mirrors, Sit up straight, and have an alert look on your face. Because now, even when the other driver is at fault; YOUR actions leading up to the accident (regardless of whether a factor or not) will be held against you.

Good luck driver!

 

Amazes me how some people are willing to give up a little bit of their freedoms and rights because "it's no big deal".
It IS a big deal---because one turns to two, two turns to three, three turns to four---and then all of the sudden the Government is running us instead of us running it.

DON'T SOME OF YOU GET THAT!?!?!

 

I just left millis 3 weeks ago, And yes cameras are coming to all trucks, along with( they call it testing now) But opti idle and fuel routing( those last 2 are coming also) those were stirke 1-2 and 3 for me. When I turned in my truck at the Richfield terminal there were at least 30+ mt trucks sitting. Yep driver are quiting is masses

 

Thats funny, I fly too and thought the same thing you do ,, until i finished CDL school, got in a truck with a company instructor, with a loaded tanker hooked to it, and started cruising around coraopolis PA. On the first steep hill, trying to bang thru gears, with traffic backing up behind me, I yelled holy f^#*!! This is way harder than flying an airplane!!

I thought VFR flying in a small single was pretty easy. Now if you're talking military aircraft, or flying freight in a baron on a rigid schedule ,, in snow and ice, or hard IMC in a small single, then carry on

one things for sure, you can take a lot from your flying exp and apply it to trucking.

 

I don't think it is a matter of the government (yet) but rather company policies. Though it could easily go the way of EOBRs in the future.

 

I'm almost positive it was the owner of the company who chose to put cameras in his trucks. Not the government. I'll check with him tomorrow just to make sure.