Driver Facing Cam Question

Answer to your last question is.defintely not. And if I were the carrier, the last thing I would want to do is voluntarily, continually create video evidence against my own company, 24-7-365. But what do I know. I know I'd never work in a truck with a.driver facing camera.

 

It protects the trucking company if someone else caused the accident. They can hurt the driver if they catch the driver fallowing to close or slow reaction time. If the driver is doing anything that might be looked as not paying attention. Like eating and driving or even drinking a soda.

 

One reason they do it supposedly is to get a discount on insurance. I don't see how it can be enough to get carriers to create evidence against themselves though. One wreck where your driver didn't have both hands at two and ten on the wheel and those savings and a lot more are gone. They're obviously convinced that it makes drivers safer, and they even more obviously want the enhanced control...power...authority....amusement.

 

If the accident is not your fault, there's no evidence against you and you don't need protection. The upside of recording a driver doing everything 100 percent by the book is very small. The downside of documenting any little (or big) thing short of textbook perfection that can be used against you , that nobody would have known about otherwise....seems to me huge.

 

It's a training aid. They can see what you were doing when a critical event is recorded.

Swift had them and disabled them. The exact reason for that I don't know but you can be sure the number crunchers decided it wasn't in their best economic interest.

 

No....liability may fall on you AS WELL. The company isn't gonna save money by having their driver on video masturbating to porn at the wheel before a wreck.. That's gonna cost em.

 

It is more that they can see you doing bad things before you have an accident/incident and fire you before said accident/incident happens. Think of it as a preventitive measure.