Beacon Transport Driver Facing Cameras

ya got that right!

 

I drive for Beacon, for the time being. I'm none too thrilled with the camera situation, either.

 

after 30 years it's the wave of the future didn't like Elogs either.
at least a lot of the ones that are only activated if you do something stupid so if you're an old professional and you were taught the right way you shouldn't have to worry if that's the way it is you got to sometimes learn to play the game between you know you don't like it or else you will be put on the bench..
basically meaning if it triggers it and you're not playing with your phone and you're driving the normal way sure you can eat big deal I do all the time sometimes I change CDs who knows what else I'm going to do but as long as I'm not playing with my phone when a critical event occurs such as a hard to break or a sudden Veer to the shoulder I don't really care..I'm glad to have it facing forward 4 starters because at least it captures so many idiots out hereI' but then again as far as the facing as long as it is one of the ones that activate for about 7 seconds only one a critical event happens that's perfectly fine I don't like it but once again I didn't like the hours of service change in 2003 I didn't like the rent a foreign or program starting in 2004 I wasn't a fan of CSA 2010 now almost 10 years later but I'm not going to let them win..one thing after starting back when it was 55 mile an hour and you had none of these luxuries at all driving cabover trucks with spring Ride is the fact that for the older professionals we don't like it but we can adapt that's your key word today kids "Adapt"
the professionals will be able to do it if you want to keep on going like my buddy Dave sweetman says the same exact thing you know you don't like it but do you want to get out or you just going to learn to deal with it unfortunately it's not a professional industry anymore it won't ever be a professional industry anymore and you just have to take the changes it's a come pretty sure own insurances are going to mandate the cameras or else you won't be getting insured..so get ready for speed limiters next will be like Canada everybody going the same speed everywhere you go that's not too far down the line either should be fun cuz once again the professional drivers from the 1995 in before once again will be able to adapt. probably won't like it but we have the ability to adapt the other clowns are the ones who caused it and they're the ones that will continue to keep bombing out and that's where the sweet smell of Revenge ends up tasting so well.

 

you better believe it look at Old Craig Dittmar of Blackhawk transport Beloit Wisconsin and this is Trucking career and probably spend his life in prison for killing that trooper in Rockford Illinois..but you're right you see the way some of these idiots drive I'm glad to have the camera. as far as forward facing I don't text while I'm driving so studs what you have your voice response for you hit the microphone one push button and Yak away all you want. so as far as something going crazy I'd like to know what it does capture if it's a hard break of that and I say wow I had to really lock those breaks up on that clown cut me off next thing you know the camera triggers it and they look and seeso as you did everything you could to avoid it

 

you know the nice thing about it though they're not always watching you. that's one thing you learn about these things.. what that means basically is let's say a critical event is triggered your company doesn't see it right away it's like the calling your safety hotlines like 1827 Safe 800 safetrk etc. a report is taken and then it is sent to your company. I have a friend that drives for old Stan. the one thing to know about your cameras is unless you're doing something stupid it's not going to matter what. that basically means is the ones that you have is the fact that let's say you have a hard brake incident triggered and it activates the camera, it just first reviewed by the safety company not by your beacon transport safety department. but rather the people that own the camera manufacturer. so let's say they see you swerve and lock up those brakes because some yahoo pulled out in front of you but you were not tailgating, you had plenty of room and it clearly shows that the yutz was at fault.. basically the monitoring company is going to look at that and then they will base their decision so if you did nothing wrong and they can see by looking at you you weren't playing with a phone you weren't distracted you were just driving like you should your company Beacon transport won't even know what happened...because they will look and see clearly they will look at your front facing camera and they will look at you when the incident triggered it.. so the good news is if you did nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about Michelle.
now if you were texting or tailgating or doing something you shouldn't be doing ,or you were distracted and it clearly showed it then Beacon is going to be notified and the report number will be generated in your safety department will be viewing it. that's the one good thing about the ones that you have they're not the babysitters that people think like Knight Swift.. so if you are properly trained and you know you have a safety record to back it up you won't have nothing to worry about. sure it's invasion and it sucks but the bottom line if you want to keep on playing the game you just learn to adapt. eventually it's going to become mandatory for everybody if they want to get insured.. but as my friend who drives a lighthouse Volvo said; now that I learned what triggers it I'm not worried about it because my safety record exemplifies it.. the kind of put you more at ease knowing the fact that it's not every little thing you do that's going to be tattled on you..hopefully that can ease a little bit of your anxiety.
I know you posted this originally just after the first of the year for a couple of months into the new year. but that's the only good thing about it as far as I'm concerned if I have to get one I'd like to have the kind that Beacon chose to get if it had to be a forward and driver facing camera.

 

Driver facing cameras are distraction in themselves. You watch that darn thing every time you hit a bump or whatever and in between looking at a camera you head is filled with distracting never ending chain of thoughts "you are dirt, you are nothing but dirt, you are lower than dirt, what did you do to deserve this and so on". You drive otr with a driving facing camera - you should feel like dirt, and when I see you driving an otr truck with a driver facing camera I view you and those arseholes employing you as deprived and lacking. It is impossible to have your self-respect intact.

 

isn't your generation. The one with a pet rock though

 

Did you ever agree to have a driver facing camera and agree to work for them afterwards?