Camera? Not on my watch

Although it's a different situation, was asking a School Bus driver about camera's, they have 3 camera's in a bus, 2 on the students and one on the driver, was told they are on 24 hours.

 

It helps there lawyers see what you were doing before the incident. It also lets them know exactly how much money you are going to cost them....I have zero issues with cameras facing both ways. Its "there" equipment you are a driver...I as an O/O have cameras yep facing both ways. Yep in my personal truck. It doesnt show anything beyond the ####pit.

I cant tell you how many company drivers I pass a day texting and watching videos...yes theres times its boring but those options are not the solution!!!

Be Safe Out There

Captain Dave

 

It's their equipment, they can put a camera in it , if they want to BUT nobody has to put up with it
.... Let those trucks sit in a parking lot long enough & those cameras will be flying out the windows

 

Theres plenty of drivers out there...some that actually want to do a good job. I was stopped the other day in Oregon for a random inspection first thing the officer said is you are being recorded by video and voice.... I said as are you lets do the inspection. He just laughed he checked my bills and license did a walk around faster than Santa Claus and when I asked do you want to see my elogs...? Have a safe day. Period. He clearly didnt do his job..will someone review his actions or camera video...most likely not. I own my truck I drive it. I am adding a truck that partner/driver will have to accept the cameras as will the others as I grow. This isnt 1970 where we run paper logs and all drugged up. This is the day of insurance and insurance wants this.


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Captain Dave

 

My main point about the camera was ... For 2 months it ONLY tripped on rough railroad crossings or rough parking lots,
No hard braking events, I am pretty good,
But then they reprogrammed it so that it would trip easier, so they could have me call in and 'coach' me.
There were times I never noticed the camera trip, never hard braked, yet had to deal with someone that just watched the video 50 times, and were astonished I couldn't remember an event they just watched, that happened the day before.

And there are companies that use the Dashcam in a mature way, but Crete is not capable of that.
But they only put the cameras in trucks with drivers that have wrecks or a lot of critical events, or in my case, the collision system broke

Theres a local furniture company that has them, they deliver nationwide and backhauled back, someday I may end up behind that camera, but they are mature about the settings.

 

I walked my son out to the bus, bus driver had his little stop sign deployed and a car came flying around the corner and blew right past the bus. I walked out in the street and raised my arms like 'come on back fool, let's talk', he slowed down but kept going. I asked the driver if he caught that on cam, he said they don't have cams on the buses yet.

 

Dave, what level license do/did you have? I mean, the tonnage? In ur profile pic is that a crewboat or an OSV?

Thanks,

 

That picture is on a 96 foot dinner boat. I have a 100 ton USCG Masters license. My last vessel was 196 feet long 600 passenger's and was over 6 stories tall weight, over a million pounds.Been everywhere from Great Lakes to FL and in between...

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Captain Dave

 

The difference is that you own the truck and the camera, and you control the output data that the camera produces. Company drivers don't have any control of the camera or the output.

 

Let me see...

My last vessel was an oil tanker, 600 feet long hauling crude down & refined products back up the US west coast up to Valdez Drift River, AK. Tonnage? 55,000DWT if I remember off top of my head.

Great Lakes? Yeah, been there too, on 1,000 foot bulkers.

Cheers.

 

Well good luck with that...... hopefully you can explain this to anyone that will drive you're money maker for you