In cab cameras schneider or jb hunt ?

Some states like California have very specific laws on in cab video cameras:

Just keep asking for copies of the video every day and eventually your employer is going to get annoyed with you and turn off the camera. Also, if the video catches you doing something private then you might have a privacy case against the company. After all, the truck is technically your home away from home and the company has no business watching you change your underwear or scratching your balls. ( or someone elses balls, )

 

Actually, I find all of this truly a case study in schizophrenia. On the one hand, you have the megas screaming that the driver shortage is getting worse, while at the same time, they push for ELD's, speed limiters, and somewhat the background, dual facing cameras in the cab. And some of them even cloak their intentions in touchy feely named organizations to give the perception they are something that they are not. One has to always keep in mind, that Schneider and JB were two of the five founding members of Alliance for Driver Safety and Sercurity. The name gives one the idea that they are looking out for drivers, yet if you go onto their own website, it was formed to promote speed limiters, e-logs, etc. Just a lobbying group diametrically oppose to their own name. Orwell is still with us.

 

none of the megas have implemented this yet...

 

Millis has them I believe. I'm sure other companies do too. It's all a insurance liability deal. That way the carrier can place the blame on the driver for whatever reason- texting, sleeping, fatigued, looking out the side window etc. has nothing to do with safety. It's all insurance driven. Plus it could work in a drivers benefit too if a accident was to occur the other person or officer couldn't say " he was texting I seen it" it wouldn't be a he said she said anymore because you'd have the tape to prove you didn't.

 

Re-read my post. Never said any of them have implemented anything. I only stated they are pushing for this stuff, either directly or thru one of their front group organizations like the ATA, TCA, or Alliance for Driver Safety and Security. They use the latter methods so that they act like Bill Clinton when their drivers complain.... "It's not our fault, we didn't do this!".

 

I didn't say you said anything wrong, I agreed... they have to get around the privacy act before they can do this.

 

There are already in cab cameras in other carriers so it's already past the privacy thing.

 

Yep they are using them in my soon to be ex company. They first said that they were going to install front facing cameras, next thing I know I had a dual facing one. It's a smaller company, about 100 trucks.

 

I am not so sure that the privacy act applies to an employer/employee relationship. In many businesses, there are cameras that are watching the premises, including employees. Heck, even the employees at walmart are monitored, not directly though, simply because of all the security cameras in the stores. Once you are on someone's property (or in their truck), your privacy concerns stay behind. Privacy issues are only in the realm of government actions. It is the similar thing as your 1st amendment rights. You can say, read, print, freely assemble, and openly worship anything you want, as it relates to government, but you do not have the same right at the work place. The only recourse to wanting any privacy is to not work for someone who violates it.

 

We had these cameras at my former company. I can tell you from a management prospective, we cannot access the camera unless there is a critical event. Believe it or not, most of our driver like having the camera's now. We have had many cases where the camera was able to prove that the driver was not at fault during an accident. If it wasn't for the camera, the driver would've been issued a citation and had an at fault accident on their record. Unless you have dealt with these camera's, don't speculate. These are actually good for the industry as it will show in time that the four wheelers out there are mostly to blame for the accidents.