MILLIS Transfer no longer what it once was

It has been that way for a long time. You've been voting pure, concentrated evil

 

LOL! Fair enough!

 

and funny how there are so many drivers who don't want a camera recording them doing a job they are hired, paid, and expected to do safely, makes you "hmmmmm"
I just cant help but chuckle at how paranoid older drivers get about a camera facing them and recording the seconds up to and after a crash. its understandable that you've done this job for so many years with out incident and know what your doing, but there are to many bad apples looking at porn on their phone, texting, playing candy crush and "waxing the carrot" while drving and 80,000 pound missile. you have nothing to fear if your a safe driver, the camera will show it. its not the newer generation taking this county downhill like a snowball headed for hell, it was the older generation with all the wars, discrimination, senseless spending etc etc. and now its up to my generation to pick up the pieces. I would like to thank you for showing us how not to run a country though... quite honestly we haven't had a chance to royally screw ourselves yet. I've got no problem with a camera recording me all the time, why? I've got a boring ##### life. if some 400 lb shirtless tsa agent or dot agent wants to watch me drive a truck for hours, then watch me watch tv or read a book while on a break or watch me sleep, then go ahead. but don't expect to be on the edge of your seat...

 

I ain't accepting these inward facing cameras. Company does not need to know I drive with once hand, how many cigarettes I smoke during the day, how much Mountain Dew I drink, or anything else about my personal habits while driving. My driving record stands on its own in terms of safety. I drive specifically because I don't want or need a boss standing over my shoulder 24 hours a day.

If you need a camera pointing at you to keep you safe, get the heck out of trucking and turn in your regular car drivers license, too. There are plenty of cameras on public transportation to watch you while you travel back and forth.

 

If you had a sizable trucking company would you install cameras in your trucks?

 

I would not. I don't see it as cost effective, number one. Number two, if I owned a "sizable" trucking company, I would be trying to attract experienced drivers. Good drivers who know what they're doing don't need or want these. E-logs, yes. Speed governor and idle control yes. Cameras, no.

 

The only reason a company wants cameras on drivers is this..they can't trust them and if you can't trust the people you hire, just maybe you ought to rethink who you're hiring..

 

Let me add a PROPERLY TRAINED driver doesn't need them either. These companies are putting them in but not training worth a ####. And that's the bottom line for these training companies. They aren't taught to be career truck drivers. They are taught to be temporary steering wheel holders. To not think for yourself. We'll do it for you. All the cameras and the fuel solutions and the routing software in the world isn't going to make a good truck driver. Neither is pies poor substandard training. But you can't tell empty suits that have never driven before that.

 

I'm with Joe. There wouldn't be cameras in my trucks. Of course, I wouldn't have speed limiters, either. I WOULD have E-Logs, as I have seen their usefulness to the driver with my very own eyes.

Either give me experienced drivers who prize their safety as much as I prize mine, or give me straight outta school rookies I can teach how to run my trucks the way I want them run.

 

I don't need a camera to keep me safe I want camera to catch the other A-holes. its an insurance policy, if somebody cuts me off and brake checks me, and I end up hitting their Neanderthal self, then when the cop shows up and say the other guys is blameing me all I have to say is" I got it on camera" I can understand not wanting to be recorded all day, but as the rolling stones say " ya cant always get what you want"


side note, I think we pretty well hijacked this thread and we could go back and forth for hours, or days on this. I think theres already a thread about this so I think im going to move over there.