DRIVE CAM ON ABC NEWS so importantant I needed to make a new post.

I see no issues with cameras being in vehicles.
Provides proof as to who is at fault in an accident so those responsible can take the blame.

I've used one for a long while, ever since somebody cut me off on the way to work and I hit a telephone pole. The guy just kept driving. If I had a camera then, I might have had his license plate number and he could have paid the $8000 to replace the pole instead of my insurance. Luckily oncoming traffic witnessed it so I wasn't charged with reckless driving, but still had to pay since the other guy left.

Also had one in my car when I bumped somebody at an intersection. It was my fault, but the camera showed no damage and showed us out of our vehicles walking and talking. So he couldn't go and claim there was damage nor personal injury.

 

I find this statement somewhat hypocritical.
You want a camera to protect yourself in the event on an accident that isn't your fault.
But at the same time, you want to be able to control it so that *you* can try to avoid responsibility if *you* cause an accident?

What if the other person has a camera as well?
You will get in much more trouble for trying to lie your way out of it then if you admit responsibility.

 

If he was park in a ts playing with his johnson, n someone bump him making the camera recorded, at least he can choice to delete that.

I use to work for a company with cameras, hate it never again.

 

It's the driver facing camera that's make everone upset not the outward facing one. All for an outward facing one

 

Next week: "truck driver shortage"

 

I think Swift will have difficulty recruiting drivers that like to sit in the driver's seat and play with their Johnson.

 

Hi guys, first post so be gentle.

From my experience as a transportation insurance broker, I favor a good company having event video recording devices. They are more positive to drivers/companies than negative. In the event that the driver was at fault, it makes it very easy to keep the losses low because the facts are known immediately and therefore the damages can be settled swiftly.

It is not advisable to have an admittedly, poorly run fleet install these, giving attorneys and a jury of your peers video evidence. However, the information gathered from these units is valuable. A safety manager can watch the video with the driver in the cab of the vehicle on a tablet, discuss the behavior that lead to the video being captured, and attempt to correct it. Very little driver turn-over in the fleets I've seen it implemented.

In regards to them being activated by a third-party striking the vehicle while parked and recording the driver in the interior of the cab, they have caps to install over the inward facing camera lens, or the curtain can be drawn in front of it.

 

True, but if you were to delete it, what would stop that other guy from trying to claim that you hit him? Especially if he had a private camera and deleted the video of him hitting you and simply claimed that it 'wasn't turned on at the time'. It would turn into a 'he said she said' type of thing and both drivers will take a hit if a guilty party can't be found.

Is there a camera in the sleeper? If not, could just go in there out of view to release that pent up stress.

 

The week after that " swift stock declines another 23% due to lack of drivers and a high turnover rate"