Driver facing camera, was he just messing with me?

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  1. Lennythedriver

    Lennythedriver Road Train Member

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    Two hands on the steering wheel? 99% of all drivers I’ve ever seen use the ole left hand on wheel, right hand on lap. And they’re darn good drivers too! I’ll use two hands is I’m driving through a very narrow winding construction lane, etc, but two hands on the wheel at the 10 and 2 position causes driver fatigue.
     
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  3. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    I agree with you, but I don't write the rules.
     
  4. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    I tell ya as a mechanic if a company told me to leave the key on (or even in the ignition) while I worked I'd be walking right out the door. Last thing I want is some fool hitting the starter while I'm working. Or even have the dang truck do it by itself because something in the computer has gone wonky.
     
  5. againstthewind

    againstthewind Road Train Member

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    if i have to ask those questions about a company and deal with a clown like that in the shop i would find work elseware.
     
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    Nothing a piece of black tape can't fix,,:bootyshake:
     
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  7. Lennythedriver

    Lennythedriver Road Train Member

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    I once had a regional manager for a corporation I worked for on my early twenties tell me...”If you watched any employee at any company in any position for 24 hours a day/7 days a week, you would have to fire every single one of them. No matter how hard of working they are, how dedicated or anything else everyone, at every job, breaks the rules enough to get fired we just don’t see it.

    this is why the industry accepted the use of these driver facing cameras “for incidents only“. If it turns out they’re being used, or could be used for other scenarios, companies could then Cherry pick who they fire and keep. It’s wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. Let’s say you had some kind of dispute with your company? Technically they could just go back through their driver facing camera system and watch it for a week straight until they found something on you and then just fire you for it.

    Drivers need to demand contracts be written up and signed by both parties regarding the use of these cameras. It blows my mind that hasn’t been done already. You live in these trucks for weeks if not months at a time. Nobody should be entitled to watch you on checked in any living condition.
     
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  8. dieselpowered

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    See now I feel bad and explains why my layout is different why did no one give me the memo use only 1 hand not this




    All joking aside unless it was a woman and a man spying on her I could see a huge issue. personally I sleep with sometimes socks and if they want a gander at my junk to go for it I think one time when I have my girl with me put on a show for the camera never once had a call even blew a kiss from backside to camera.
    I have no shame as for walking naked as long its legal to do so like a nude beach. I may be American but when I was younger I lived in Europe, Japan, and a few other places anywhere my relatives got stationed.

    Asking a random person to have sex in a bar, coffee, shop anywhere really it's not unusual just go the restroom and get it done people ain't really phased too much when that happens in restrooms unless some fat guy and the first thing you see is his ###. the big take away is the culture difference a few people I know here understand what I am talking about you claim you sexy and show off a pretty little outfit but it's shameful for women to show their skin. Across the pond, there are even ads that have nude people to sell a product because they don't censor stuff like America seems to do and are ashamed of there own bodies.
     
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  9. rachi

    rachi Road Train Member

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    :biggrin_2559:
     
  10. Chinatown

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    I've told people about that and they don't believe me. People trying on clothes in the aisles of clothing stores; stripping down right there. To me, it's no big deal though. When we're in another culture, learn and enjoy, and don't say dumb thing's like, "We don't do that in my home country, so you shouldn't do that either."
     
  11. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    First, the guy on the bike is an idiot. Deadman riding. Secnd a camera is not a time machine, if it does not record it, it can not replay it. This goes for incidents, accidents or picking your nose. It can not magicly come on after the fact and record a incident. Do drivers ever listen to whats being said.
     
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