Camera? Not on my watch

So what are you going to do when your new company adds cameras? Quit? Eventually every company will have them. Guess you will have to find a new line of work, or lifestyle, as you call it.

 

I'm still waiting to see that kind of money. 5.5 months in and I'm only making about 2000 a month after taxes.

 

Just playing devil's advocate here, I don't support driver facing cameras IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, but it takes longer than 2 weeks to land a job with any quality carrier these days (Interview, road test, background checks, previous employer calls, drug tests, physicals, etc). I obviously don't know you, but I'll assume you're a qualified driver with years of experience. No doubt you (or I or any number of people on this board) could land a job quickly, but some people aren't able to quit an employer and face up to a month with zero income (I'm not including you or myself in this category, but the majority of folks live paycheck to paycheck). Just offering up an opinion on why some guys and gals couldn't walk on day 1 with a camera installation. Hopefully some of our truck driver friends will read this and add another reason to save for a rainy day.

 

Mister you could not be more correct, I've been debt free many years now, shed those shackles that the marketers make you think you need, live within your means, and if they put a camera in the truck you have the freedom to stay or tell them where to stick it and how far

 

I immediately quit when they installed a driver facing camera in my truck. I didn't spend one minute in it. It was bad enough that the truck also has no curtains and zero tri Pac heat. I quit on the spot.

 

[QUOTE="Pintlehook, but it takes longer than 2 weeks to land a job with any quality carrier these days (Interview, road test, background checks, previous employer calls, drug tests, physicals, etc). .[/QUOTE]

if your gonna get with another mega american trucking assn company you get all that rigamarol
I quit the training company long long time ago
medium size day cab co
apply and road test on my 3 days hometime
" when can you start?"
"dont give em 2 weeks you will be back east forever"
if you keep moving to these big megas alot of drivers become morbidly obese and.got to sleep with a cpap take meds then that good overtime paying job aint open to you and when your short term med card expires mega says clean out your truck

 

You sure showed them.

 

I am a retired airline pilot and drive part time hauling vans. In the late 1990's The FAA and the ATA (Airline Transportation Association) proposed the installation of ####pit cameras. This was in addition to CVRs (####pit Voice Recorders) and FDRs (Flight Data Recorders). These are the infamous "black boxes" you hear about. .Actually, these boxes are bright orange in color and let folks hear our last words and tell a story of what the airplane was doing.

ALPA (Airline Pilots Association) represented the pilots and basically told the FAA to ''pound sand". We had enough surveillance and the cameras were not needed. The FAA understood we were serious and believed us when we told them we would "shut it down". This was not a threat but only a response to their ultimatum

To this day we do not and WILL not have intrusive cameras in the ####pit. What is the difference and why do you not have leverage? It's a simple five letter word--Union. To stand united you sometimes make a point. As individuals you are most certainly at their mercy.

This is my opinion and do not wish a long discussion about the pros and cons of said union..