In-Cab Video Cameras That Watch The Driver!!!!

I hope I don't get in trouble from the moderators for posting a link to this article. The FMSCA has contracted a Video Surveillance company to install cameras in Commercial Vehicles that not only record the view of the Road but also Record the Driver 24/7.....

Here is the link to the article on OverDrive Magazines website.

http://www.overdriveonline.com/agency-allows-in-cab-camera-monitoring-to-continue/

 

I emailed the President also.. I was very firm...lol

 

Wow really? While on the road for weeks at a time and the truck (Including the cab) being your private space while not driving that is NO GOOD. What about the Owner Operators that flat out own their trucks and the truck is their home? You expect them to be on TV all the time? Or like every driver under the sun does... gets out of their truck while logged on "Sleeper Berth" to go get food, walk around, take a shower, etc and the company decides "Hey, your on slepper berth time, your fired for falsifying your log!"

Ridiculous.... We minus well let the owners of apartments and homes put cameras in the homes they are renting out of every person to insure they dont damage their home, or have unauthorized pets, or hammer a nail in the wall to hang a picture...

No, the company wont say anything about the tape covering the lens...(lol)

 

No one ever said the cameras would be pointed towards the sleeper... your missing the point and principal of the whole issue. There are a ton of things a driver can be doing in his driver seat (or co-drivers seat) the camera can catch that is not exactly something the driver should not be doing. You never sit in your driver seat while not logged on duty or driving? if you say no, you have lost all credibility... you could be in your driver seat logged on sleeper and lets say some dumb England driver runs clear into your truck... the camera will start recording from the impact and there you are caught falsifying your log. Not saying you will get fired for it.. but you would be caught. and I am sure there are many more examples. Just sick the only example you thought of was masturbating.