Cameras and E-logs and Automatics oh my!

I don't think it's so much the "government we elect" that might push onboard camera logging systems ... it's a society guided by a trade group of lawyers who do nothing except look for accidents involving big trucks because they have deep pockets and substantial liability limits. A truck today is assumed guilty until proven innocent in today's courts with today's jury's, so if a camera can prove a trucker was NOT at fault, great, if it proves he was at fault, that was going to happen anyway. And if they have the added effect of making drivers drive a little more conservatively than before ...

I'm not an advocate for cameras but put yourslef in the carrier owner's shoes for a day ... you have 3,000 drivers out there pushing 50-80k lbs of freight across the nation in all sorts of traffic and weather conditions, amongst a society of automobile drivers that values seconds and minutes. And in every group of 10 4-wheelers, there is 4 who are on the phone or texting, and there is 2 that have aggressive driver tendencies, and there are 3 that need an injury law suit to pay off their over-whelming debt. And you would not do everything within reason to protect your name that is on the side of all those thousands of trucks?

 

BINGO!!

Its amazing how many sheep simply roll over and let them get away with taking away even more of our freedom...

 

Have been driving automated transmissions for 8 years now and have had no problems.I can drop as many gears as necessary and hold them.I have driven them in BC where you have 11 to 13 percent grades.

 

I guess it depends on which you value more...

Basic human rights or acting like those that the west fought wars to defeat.

Whats next...implanting chips in all their drivers to monitor and test their reflexes because it might prevent an accident?

 

I don't know who or where you heard companies are going automatics.But you better do more research.Only a handful has automatics.One day all automatics will become obsolete.What do you have against elogs warwagon?Yiu don't know anything about logging do you?Plz quit trying to get in with the bigboys and stick to learning.

 

U guys are getting way off subject. Hey OP dont be fearful dude. If you go to a company that has automatics right off the get go most here would tell you that is not good because most of us learned manual first. All these guys posting right now know how to drive manual But now drive auto (well except the 1yr rookie on page 1) including myself. Not bad for an auto 10 speed eaton fuller auto she pulls bro. Camaras well I dont have any and e-logs I dont have those either so not everybody is got them. Just relax and learn dont worry about equipment.

 

Well let's see, you're typing this response on a computer. A hundred years ago we did not have computers or other comparable technology and we survived. So my question to you is why are you not reading books by candle light to while away your spare time if we don't need to leverage technology to everyone's advantage? I did not realize technology was only to be used to make life easier for those that did not create it but chose to buy it, and NOT to be used by business and industry ... those who created it.

 

Or when the cab's a-rockin' ...........

 

No problem with cameras ON the truck monitoring the front, sides and rear as a means to limit liability or correctly assign blame if the driver is at fault (which can be 100 percent assessed without the camera on the driver) but I have a huge problem with cameras on the truck monitoring the driver.

 

I got EOBR or E-log just 6 months ago. They take little getting use too, but i would not want go back to paper logs. Trucking is changing and complying with HOS is now BIG priority.