New Camera System Coming to all company trucks.

The camera did nothing to stop that from happening.

 

Exactly. It sure made it easy for the lawyers though. Seems like quite the liability.

 

Porn while driving? really? wow

and wtf is a cop car even doing stopped in the middle of the highway.. ?????

 

I stress this once again. Cameras, e-logs, routing, fuel solutions, it's all garbage. Hire decent drivers. Train them the right way instead of trying to constantly get the lowest common denominator out here. Raise the standards and you don't need this. Instead we have a bunch of illiterate derelicts with bad hygiene, bad attitudes and can't truck worth a ####. But hey, they're cheap! Until you have to invest in all the other junk and replacement equipment for what they wreck. But it's so much easier to hire these idiots and give them substandard training. Don't set forth any actual policy to teach them to truck the right way. Let them look like the slobs they are, and wreck trucks and not deliver freight on time because they are #### ups and will be #### ups until the day they die.

 

Ensuring people move over and don't hit the emergency responders dealing with the scene just ahead. It actually could have been worse if that trooper hadn't been at that spot.

 

I'm just going by what the camera company's website is saying and their FAQ sheet. If they're lying to us. That's different. But I just don't see the advantage of uploading 64gb of footage of a driver rolling down the highway. Everyday. Times that by 16,000 trucks. That's an expensive data package.

I'm on your side here. I don't agree with this either. It just baffles me that they would go and do something like this when they're so concerned about retention. Especially after the two raises.

 

These are NOT consumer cameras, like they sell at the truck stops. They do NOT write video to an SD card. Or flash memory, for that matter.

They write to a short (typically 30 second) buffer. If an event triggers a save, the device will continue to record for a short period (another 10 seconds on the 30 second buffer) and save that 30 second video to be uploaded.

At a preprogrammed time, the camera connects to the camera company's server via the cellular network and uploads the saved video.

The law was changed a few years ago to allow these cameras under very strict conditions. They can save video ONLY on event triggers (G-force sensors, manual push button), and the trigger can ONLY occur AT THE CAMERA LOCATION. Video clips are limited in length, and there is a limit to the total length of video that can be saved. If a company installed the same style of dash cams that we buy, they would be in violation of a number of Federal laws.

I was a branch manager at my last company when corporate had these cameras installed. I was present while the cameras were being installed, and I picked the tech's brain about these cameras.

These cameras are physically incapable of live streaming video. Even if the firmware was hacked to allow it, the cellular chipset simply does not have the bandwidth to stream video. These run 2G/3G chipsets; the cellular companies charge a LOT less for slow data. Even if they did run 4G LTE and could stream, and the cameras had the latest (very expensive) chipsets to compress two HD cameras to 1 GB/hour total, that's 744GB of data in a 31 day month. Call Verizon and ask them how much a 750GB/mo data plan will cost you...

Bottom line: These do NOT stream video.

 

swift is not installing cams in the new trucks.... one it was too expensive (swift is cheap) and 2 most drivers refused to drive the trucks (more wasted money)


why does this thread keep coming up?

 

being on the shoulder with your flashers seems to be the safer thing to do.. after all that's what I see cops do 99% of the time anyway

 

Edwardsville has a printed description and information handout about the new system. Yes, cameras are coming to trucks.