Spy ware in the truck??

Not even close to the same thing!

 

my thoughts too

if you are not saying anything illegal, what do you have to worry about?

privacy and personal rights are so overrated

 

I absolute HATE the idea..but I can understand the reason why. The reason it's there is because of idiots like this checking their stupid facebook while driving. Killing a guy.




Because of people like that its going to become more and more mainstream. I mean your definitely gonna be less likely to start texting while driving with that unblinking eye on you right? Well maybe not that guy, but hopefully some would-be texters would think twice...

Every driver is replaceable. However, if everyone one stopped rolling until they yanked the cams out, then that might be a different story.
It's not going to ever happen though. It sucks the rest of us have to put up with our privacy being invaded because of a few idiots but that's just the way it is. So just get used to it, or find a company that doesn't employ them.

 

Yeah!! How dare people advocate freedom!!! It must not be allowed!!

 

The bottom line is that you do not own the truck, you do not own the highway. You are not in any way in a private area. You are on duty, and a company is 100% within their rights to monitor your actions. Not only are there legal and safety uses, but performance uses. How much more likely is someone to do a proper job if someone is watching them?

I agree that driver monitoring cameras are annoying, and invasive but they are there to make the roads safer, they are not perfect and hopefully there will be a better/less invasive system in the future. But it is in no way a breach of 'freedom' for a work place to monitor a worker, at work. If we were talking about cameras in a sleeper, then yes; that is a breach. But we aren't.

And I for one think if you're talking loud enough for an in-cab speaker to hear you through the privacy curtain, you talk to loud on your cellphone anyways. I can have a perfectly normal conversation across the seat from someone who wouldn't be able to tell you what I was saying. Stop yelling at your phone.

 

exactly

once you drive a truck on a public road for a private company, you are now completely owned, like a piece of property, a chair or hammer

you are a tool called LABOR and you will drive that truck, as you are commanded, and like it

i just cant wait till we get our implanted chip and shock collar

 

I have an expectation of privacy within my sleeper. That is MY area for the duration of my time of employment with the company. And yes, I do talk loud on my cell phone. Thanks to years of driving truck, I'm now hard of hearing and don't always notice how loud I am talking unless someone else informs me.

It comes down to trust. Either you trust me to operate your equipment safely, efficiently, and profitably, or you don't. And if you don't, this working relationship is not going to last long enough for me to warm up the seat with my butt.

 

If it is your truck that may be so. But if it is a company truck they can do what ever they want. Just like email accounts on corporate servers.
Having spent the last 20+ years in IT I know this is possible. My question is WHY would a company want to? The "tattle tales" showing hard braking, speeding etc I can understand. But why would they go to the extra expense just to listen to what you say in the cab? Besides the expense there are too many ways to nullify listening devices anyway.

Makes a good tale and is possible but not really feasible!

 

"I have an expectation of privacy within my sleeper. That is MY area for the duration of my time of employment with the company. And yes, I do talk loud on my cell phone. Thanks to years of driving truck, I'm now hard of hearing and don't always notice how loud I am talking unless someone else informs me.

It comes down to trust. Either you trust me to operate your equipment safely, efficiently, and profitably, or you don't. And if you don't, this working relationship is not going to last long enough for me to warm up the seat with my butt."

It doesn't work that way. They may trust YOU completely with their equipment but they don't the next guy in line. If they make him do something they don't make you do it is highly possible he (or she) can come back screaming discrimination for one reason or another. The next person can claim the made them do it because of their race, creed religion, sexual orientation or national origin. So they throw a blanket over everyone!!

 

Easy solution. Don't drive for a company that installs driver-facing cameras. The day they put those things in every truck on the road is the day I brush off my burger-flipping spatula, permanently!