Boundaries and protocols for inward facing cameras

They record anytime the truck is moving. They don’t stream or upload the video 24/7. They usually only upload stuff like a hard braking. I believe my company cameras record 24/7 and keep all the video on the truck camera. The company could go back and look at anything if they wanted to. They generally only would care if the get notified of something like accident or hard braking.

They tell use they are setup to only record 10+ MPH. We have the windshield curtains so when parked or sleeping you can close them and that blocks the camera. They are mounted to windshield and have a very wide angle view they can see everything inside cad. My company will let use eat drink when driving. They are not super cazy on stuff. If they see you without seatbelt on they will say something. They don’t care if you sing or pick nose.

I’m not big fan of them but I also kinda forget is watching you. If you get a yellow light you should plan on stopping. If you can get thru before it turns red my company never said anything to me. I had some loads I didn’t want slam on the brakes to stop and have load shift. Company never said anything out light Turing red at last second.

 

The @Judge, heard from again. Wisdom and advice, listen up.

 

When one company I drove for installed them, I hung a "Little Tree" air freshener in front of it. No one ever said anything, but I knew they were watching.

 

As my truck has a bunk, I think we should get surveillance of their bedroom as well...

 

Thanks for the shout, you'll get a varied amount of opinions, but we can all agree, it's the insurance companies that are pushing this. I wouldn't however, single out the trucking industry, cameras are EVERYWHERE! Any building, city street, rental car, not to mention that new "smoke detector" they just put up,,,that blinks,,,driver facing cameras, regardless of what privacy they may invade, are here to stay. People say those door bells that are cameras, are an invasion of privacy. Bottom line, like drug testing, got nothing to hide, shouldn't be an issue, right? Not sure how we gave away those rights so easily.

 

If the company has a driver-facing camera assume it is recording video and audio 24/7, even if the company claims otherwise. They didn't put a camera in the truck because they don't want to see what is happening.

Every answer in trucking is 'it depends'. EVERY newbie thinks every company operates the same way, pays the average wage, goes to the average places etc., etc. Each company is different. They all have to comply with FMCSA regulations, and then they set their own policy, with very few exceptions.

The company I worked for with driver-facing camera told us tampering with the camera was a firing offense. Other companies I worked for said tampering with any of the safety features of a truck was a potential immediate termination event.

For the love of all that is holy, understand CDL school is about as important and selective as the self-checkout line at Wal Mart. Newbies act as if it's going to share features with Ivy League universities. It's 3 weeks of rushed indoor and outdoor activity and a test. Find the job first that will hire you with your record. Once you know where you will work and they want to hire you, go to the CDL school that makes sense for that employer. Newbies want to hurry up and get a CDL school out of the way before they learn some employers won't hire from any random school, but only these 3 schools in the area. Or the employer has their own school. The goal is a job, not a plastic CDL card in your pocket, I hope. Make decisions about the job, and complete the formality of CDL school once you have your specific job selected. DO NO got to school first and then start looking for work unless you like complicating your life or are ready to maybe do it twice.

 

All in the name of safety,
Or if you want it accept the terms and charges. Don't tick that box the company won't sell or allow access. Tick that box and your soul is sold before you know it. The credit card in my mind was perhaps the first step in gathering info electronically and spying on the mass. Business and governance have enjoyed the data ever since. Think AI will morph into places we don't even know exist at present. Between phones, credit cards and public cameras your life can be tracked 24-7-365. The boss wants the same from you while working for him/her. All in the name of safety of course.

 

Been reading another thread on another forum. Car manufacturers are capturing driving habits in the name of research and development, but selling it to insurance companies who are making calls on who and how much they insure customers for. Tesla cars have been impounded by police as they record all sorts of activity. Think some State in the US this week was the first to ban individual pricing (cant recall the name of it). But its were the customer pays a price that matches their income derived from collected data. All this is data collected by companies, cameras, and telematics in the trucking world. I'm no conspiracists, but all this is pushed onto us in the name of safety and productivity, to then be sold and used as ? for who?