driver cam

Ok, I took the time to go through the website the OP was talking about. They do not talk about management being able to view driver at will. OP - please provide link to the information you provided.

That said, to those who say these inward facing cameras are to protect drivers...I believe you are wrong. The very first selling point of the program features page reads as follows:

"Ninety-five percent of all collisions involve driver error. That’s why the DriveCam Program focuses on the causes of poor driving."

Does this sound like the company is focused on protecting the driver?

 

yep, it's for the company to weed out what they consider bad drivers. I would be interested in hearing of a scenario where an inward facing camera would help the driver.

You are expected to do everything right, so the camera really only has evidentiary value when the driver is doing something wrong. And the argument that in-cab cameras are ok because lots of people are on camera at work is invalid in my opinion too. Few other workers are subjected to a camera pointed at their face while they sit at their desk. A camera pointed at a cash register while you ring up customer purchases is a whole different ball game. Just like a camera pointed at a driver standing on a loading dock is different then the in-cab camera.

 

I thought you hauled manure...

 

Maximum pomposity achieved, manure explosion imminent. Time to reach minimum safe distance in 3... 2... 1...

 

Outward facing cams make sense to be. Inward facing cams for drivers that have too many OER events to determine the appropriate retraining may be useful.

http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3461890.shtml

 

Well, I think they're presumed guilty because historically they are so often found to be guilty, as sin.

It seems unreasonable to expect people/investigators to witness the nearly universal speeding and following too closely routinely committed by what passes for professional drivers and then still extend a standard degree of benefit of doubt amateurs enjoy. The slowest, heaviest, least maneuverable vehicles operated by a professional should rarely be involved in any crash that is not obviously ~unavoidable on their part. Instead, we find several if not many of them involved in pile-ups with 4-wheelers every week.

4-wheeler crashes don't often result in the near complete devastation of evidence, and their operator negligence does not often extend to the equipment, so they don't have to be investigated so thoroughly. You don't see many gators from 4-wheelers lying all over roads.

 

Mega dittos!

 

The cameras are there for the company's million
dollar lawyers to find the drivers at fault in an
accident. Taking liability off the carrier.

Wont be Long before truck drivers will be
sent to prison by their own company's lawyers
in accidents where somebody is killed.

 

Its also a big insurance discount to have these cams installed. For a mega fleet that's big money. If your working for a big carrier it won't be long til you see one.