Beacon Transport Driver Facing Cameras

Another Big Brother apologist...… How about monitoring for bad habits BEFORE drivers show up for work? Getting enough sleep prior coming in to the yard? Drinking or staying up late when we have to drive the next day? They should be allowed to monitor the drivers at home at least 8-10hrs prior to his on duty time. Why wait until the driver is already in the truck and a potential danger to others on the road? Nip it in the bud before he even gets to work. Save on insurance rates too. Yes sir! You want to drive for xyz we own your 8-10 hrs prior to coming on duty. Yeah that's a really stupid idea but it's a slippery slope all the same.

 

Heartland yanked them when they bought Interstate Dist who was still in the process of installing them. And they don't only come on during events. I had ,mine activate in a loaner twice just tooling down the road at 2 in the am.

 

Not according to our safety director. The purpose is to be able to review a crash immediately so the insurance company can get out in front of the situation. If it is seen that the driver was in error or distracted then they will try to quickly settle with the other party before it becomes a full court case. That's what she told us in a drivers meeting. They did a test in X number of trucks. No full scale installation as of yet.

 

All these gutless companies that cower to the insurance carriers and ambulance chasing lawyers get what they deserve in the end.

There’s a few (very few) companies that take a hard line stance. They will not settle out of court, period. They will drag the case out for how ever many years they can. The ambulance chasers know these companies and, generally, don’t waste their time on them when there’s all the other low hanging fruit that’ll pay out if they receive little more than a threatening letter.

But, they are all private companies and don’t have a bunch of suits and skirts on a board of directors dictating their every move in the name of “shareholder profits”.

 

They raised the pay partly because they know they are going to lose drivers due to the driver facing cams. Bring on the newer drivers at a lower rate with the hopes that they "will get used to them" with the recruiting enticement of the higher max pay scale of 55cpm. Pretty sure Beacon requires experience so they are having to spice things up to convince those drivers to live in a driver facing cam monitored truck..good luck to them..

 

Santa!!!?

 

Something like that. And, I can’t wait to give out the presents, especially to the Kentuckians.