We’re pretty close to 2020. We should be living lives of leasure from our comfortable vantage point onboard orbiting space stations by now. So why is it that nobody seems to make a 360 degree view backup camera system for Commercial tractor trailer combos? It’s not the tech, cars have had this tech for more than a decade. It can’t possibly be the cost, those cameras are cheap, and even new entry level compacts have backup cameras with 360 view installed from the factory. Why oh why hasn’t the trucking industry caught on to what the personal vehicle industry figured out 10 years ago? A 360 view system if it only prevented one backing accident in it’s lifetime, would easily pay for itself ten times over, even more so if the accident involved personal injury. This seems like a no brainer, so why hasn’t this happened yet? Large fleets should be all over this and I guess in a way they kind of are. They have cameras, but they decided to point them at the drivers, a move that seems to be more about fleet owners having someone to point the finger at when an accident occurs rather than providing a useful tool to a driver to help prevent a possible accident. Am I ranting yet? I feel like I’m ranting. My plea to any tech folks out there is this, a 360 view backup system is a good idea, it’s inexpensive to develop and could have a huge positive benefit. We have refrigerators that tell you when you are low on milk and put a reminder on your calendar to get more, all I want is to see what my mirrors aren’t showing me when I’m backing up. Can we do this? Please?
The backup camera situation?
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by NewHaul2018, Feb 17, 2019.
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how would werner and schneider keep drivers if their drivers didnt hit anything and could get a better paying job that requires a clean record. it wouldnt pay for itself with the megas, they rely on drivers having an incident or 2 so they arent able to get a better job. better to run them endiess miles untill their exhausted and they tear a fender off at the truckstop, dont worry they pay for that fender out of the pay they dont give their drivers, so really the driver is paying for the fender, it all works out
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There are products on the market you can buy to equip your truck such as this
4ch Vehicle Car Mobile DVR Security Video Recorder SD +4 CCD Camera Cable Remote 614993452342 | eBay
Or you can buy a wifi cam pair it with your phone and stick it where you want to see.NewHaul2018 Thanks this. -
We go to so many old docks that bend our rain channels that a backup camera wouldn’t work up top. Some places we almost have to rub the trailer beside us on the dock so it wouldn’t work on the sides either.
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Backing in is the most terrifying part of trucking from my research thus far. I would love to find myself in an open yard someplace, with a variety of obstacles I could set up, like trailers to park between etc and literally practice for days until perfected. Why don't companies allow drivers to do this? Just give them a truck, trailer and a yard place to practice until perfected. The life of that trucker would be forever easier and less stressful. Knowing he had confidently back into anyplace takes so much pressure off.
I watch videos of new truckers struggling every day, or unable to make a back in, or worse, tearing something up. Then they lose their job. If I was a trainer, as soon as my driver learned the basics, I'd hand him the keys, send him into an open yard with some placed obstacles and tell him to report back when he perfected backing in. -
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The steering wheel holders can't avoid hitting stuff with a real time view looking out the windshield.
So looking at a little computer screen isn't going to help most of them.otterinthewater, Rubber duck kw, Pedigreed Bulldog and 1 other person Thank this. -
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As per the Smith System training video on backing, when cameras are put on trucks, backing incidents go up. People get tunnel vision and only watch the camera. They loose situational awareness and hit stuff they would have seen by looking around.
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