Companies currently using driver cameras...

Halvor lines does not have driver cameras and they just recently bumped the cruise from 65 to 68

 

65mph is brutal.
68mph isn't much better

 

Its not bad especially when i drive in the northwest only where the speed limit is mostly 60 with some 65

 

Question you gotta ask yourself is why the inward driver facing camera uses highly advanced AI technology to literally map your biometrics, right down to your retina scanning day or night. Why the outward facing camera isn't as sophisticated is baffling because shouldn't it be able to warn you about maybe a deer in the road or a car broken down with no lights?? But the inward camera will tell on you for talking to yourself and flag
You if you god for bid swear

 

Great question, but one can sidestep it by pointing out that many trucks do have other forward-facing surveillance devices besides the camera, such as adaptive cruise, for purposes such as the ones you mentioned. However the question still stands on its own merit without comparing inward-facing with forward-facing. One could also ask why, if the inward-camera is so advanced, does it not detect any problem when a driver holds a takeout meal in one hand and a fork in the other while doing 65 on an empty interstate? Is it so advanced that it knows the driver is competent enough to pull that off safely and therefore doesn't speak up? Nope!

 

Wow, it's been a while since this post was first made. By now all trucks have cameras, and most have inward facing cameras.

By now, the issue has developed into its logical outcome. Firstly, many of the self-respecting experienced drivers have left the industry due to cameras. What was left were basically "expendable" drivers for companies, and owner-operators. As a result, the cameras are appearing to be remarkably effective at detecting irresponsible driver behavior. This is because there are a lot more bad drivers replacing the good ones that got disgusted and left. This argument can also be affirmed by the statistics that show that at the time the cameras were first put in trucks, the accident and injury rates in trucking were at an all time low, and since the cameras have populated trucks, those rates have only gone up despite the devices catching more violations.

Trucking companies have opted to replace an incredibly large amount of drivers with illegal aliens and expendable foreign drivers that do not have to live with the consequences of a bad driving record; they don't fear legal or employment repercussions because they can merely go back home if they get in an accident or get fired. The driver they hired to replace the "belligerent" American driver who dares to roll past a stop sign at 1 mph or go 2 feet over a limit line before stopping is now a driver that blows an intersection at 10 or more MPH and turns around on a 4 lane highway and kills people. Recent statistics show at as many as 25% of truckers have licenses they should not have or cannot even speak English.

And what of AI? I have heard it's going to take over trucking for 15 years now, each time...within a year or two.

The camera issue was red-herringed into "inward facing" cameras. But outward facing cameras have always been in my opinion the worse issue. Not because of the risk of the driver getting into an accident, but because of the internet connection causing the dissemination of evidence of a potential accident potentially as exculpatory evidence, which should be in violation of the 5th Amendment.
By law, a driver is typically not allowed to take affirmative steps to withhold or damage evidence that could be used against him in court. The problem with outward facing cameras is fundamentally that they show evidence of what the driver did, but almost never why the driver did it. In many cases, drivers do things that seem irresponsible when only one factor is looked at myopically.
I'm as big of a fan of car and truck cameras as anyone, however I like the idea of a local camera system that records over itself automatically if the driver does not stop or freeze the footage. When it's transmitted to the internet, it cannot be ignored or forgotten, and it can put an innocent driver at legal risk. For whatever reason, people keep arguing the silly issue as if some company wants to see a naked driver. The real issue is how law is decided in this country: not based on the facts, but based on how easy a case is to prove. Since "reasons why" almost always complicate legal matters, anyone that has any kind of mitigating circumstance or complicated case is either going to go broke trying to prove the whole picture, or will not be able to prove it at all.