I'm going to quit swift

Goodluck on your choice

 

No flaming, you have some valid points. However, cameras will be more welcomed when they are used as advertised. Record an event that may become part of an accident or unsafe situation. Review it, and determine if training, termination, or other driver action is necessary.
In reality what you have is dispatch and operations "looking in". Why? Because the load is late and you stopped to pee. Because your 10 hours were up 5 minutes ago, and your not moving. Because bored dispatchers gathered around a monitor for entertainment.
All three of those scenarios were told to me by drivers that were a part of or witnessed those events.
Drivers don't distrust cameras, just the people with access.

 

Disagree on one thing. There are companies recording all times and will not hesitate to fire you in a second if you cover it up.

 

If driver facing cameras prevented accidents we would not have all those youtube videos from driver facing cameras screwing up....

Companies also need to consider... just because you have a video of your driver doing something he should not have been doing does not negate the companies responsibility for placing that driver in their truck. They are actually providing evidence against themselves.

Companies do have the right to put cameras in their trucks but drivers also have the right not to drive for them....

The FMCSA has no plan nor suggestion to ever require driver facing cameras...they are not a safety device in any way...

Collision avoidance systems are being pushed by insurance companies and is something we are going to have to learn to live with.

 

Many many companies we rue the day they decided to install those cameras facing their own drivers. No one thinks they are going to crash, so telling them it'll only record if there's an event won't change the majority of drivers behavior. It will change the outcome of a lot of lawsuits and not in a favorable way for the companies involved. Even when it's 100% the other guys fault if the driver can be shown to have been in anyway distracted they're screwed.

 

My company uses driver facing cams.
They record for twelve seconds after an event. Supposed to be an impact or if the truck swerves or brakes hard. Potholes also set them off and funny enough me hitting a deer did not set it off. Whatever it records it sends to a third party and they screen them out and send the actual violations to the company safety guys/gals.

For me its a whatever but I'm a local driver, I sleep at home. But ours also record audio. So you can cover the lens or close you're curtains but if something jars that truck they are going to hear everything.
For me that would be too much.
They can do what they want while I'm driving but if I'm in the sleeper I'm od and that is my time.

 

Your problem from the get to is you gave 110%.Next company don't try so hard.You'll find out the ones that don't overwork themselves to pleas company and dispatch are the ones that get the most respect.Did Swift tell you why you had to switch to automatic?

 

I think companies main objective is to make sure drivers aren't happy.You do nothing wrong you're just doing your job and then someone at the company just has to change that.Guess they don't care that more people quit on a weekly basis then they hire.

 

Very well said

 

I want cameras facing politicians in their offices & OOIDAs PAC group to see what it is they're alllllll up to!

OOIDA id you're reading this Show Me Results!