Prime will be installing camera's in its trucks. Just heard at Friday's Meeting....

Get used to it. In five years it will be very rare to find a truck that doesn't have a camera in it. It's just the way it is.

 

I think as long as we can cover up the camera for privacy when were shut down for the night then what's the big deal. If someone has a prob with this cameras it means they are spending too much time texting while driving. Perhaps they are too cheap to spring for the cost of a decent Bluetooth headset. I also think as long as we can take our hands off the wheel long enough to blow our noses or get a swig of something to drink if we have to then no prob.

 

I take issue with having a camera pointed at me while I'm driving, however anytime I am driving I have my dash cam mounted on our windshield, for my protection, yes they can hurt you, but they can also save your butt, I think I could get used to driving with a camera pointed at me so long as it only comes on during critical events, as all 3 of my critical events were for a good reason

 

Just read an article in The Trucker that says the company who makes the lane departure warning system is now going to offer it with "critical event" recording. So it sounds like this may be the system Prime is looking at. Which would not utilize a driver facing camera and only records when a critical event occurs.

 

A guy I worked with at FedEx was fired from his previous job as a garbage man, because the in-cab camera was triggered by a pot hole and he was eating a doughnut when it when it went off. At least that's the story he gave me.

 

I'm a lease operator @ prime if they install in cab cameras recording my every move I'm out of here its an invasion of privacy

 

Cool. I will write it on the list of reasons why I would never work for Prime.

 

I heard directly from the mouth if don lacy that if they did have an inboard facing camera it would only come on in the event of a critical event.

 

It's always on dude. How do you think it can record what you was doing before you had the critical event. duhhhhhhhh

 

Yes, it's always recording. 20/30/60 seconds later, it's overwritten.

At a previous job, we had them in the vehicles. The camera recorded in an 18 second loop. When an event was triggered, it continued to record for another six seconds, then saved that 18 seconds of video (12 before the event, 6 after). Once a day, the saved video (if any) was uploaded via the cell data network.

Don't worry; there's nobody sitting in a room, watching you pick your nose while rolling down the highway. No company is going to pay for hundreds of gigabytes (per truck!) each month to spy on their drivers.

I was the branch manager at the company when the dash cams were installed, so the tech was quite willing to talk to me on how their cams worked. Once I understood what was going on, and could answer my drivers' questions, they stopped worrying about it... especially after the cam cleared a driver after an accident where a car cut him off and stomped the brakes.

Of course, I would prefer to have personal control over the video data, but even so, Big Brother is *not* watching.