Driver Facing Camera

It’s a business.

 

Blah blah blah blah blah.

 

Hey, howd you get a name like Uturn girl anyhow? We ain't gonna see footage of you on one of Scotties videos are we?

 

Actually you haven't.

Making YouTube videos is non transportation-related work, but it is not work for a motor carrier. Which, if you read what you wrote, is what that particular guidance refers to.

 

It took literally 2 minutes to type up that blurb on asking people who use Amazon, to use my link to the site so I can earn a commission off of their purchases. I put it in the administrator section and it goes into the description section of every single video I upload. I literally lose zero sleep using this link.

Yep and once again I lose zero sleep while people are watching my videos.

As a concession I told you I could log on duty while editing them. Takes all of 5-10 minutes of my time.

How are we going to prove I logged on duty while editing? Perhaps a driver facing camera? Are you certain you want to slide down this slippery slope?

 

@Antinomian I think he meant this.

 

The distinction is that no one pays me to make these videos. I upload them and in partnership with google we split the advertising proceeds from the views generated. Not unlike investing in the stock market during my 30 minute break and next week selling 1000 shares of whatever stock and realizing a profit. No reasonable person would require a person to be On Duty for that activity.

 

Maybe just be honest that you also skirt regulations and don’t act all high and mighty wanting to get people fired. That’s the only issue I had with you and how this all started. All I said is don’t call out others if you’re also not doing things 100% by the book. And you’re not. And you won’t admit it, trying to claim hobbies are exempt. And they’re not if you get paid.

If it truly was a hobby you wouldn’t care about views, you would put the word out about issues this industry has that are greater than people talking on their phones. But you won’t, because you want the views. I’m assuming to get the ad dollars. You’re acting like you’re going to save the industry from driver facing cameras, you’re more likely to get people to think we need to be restricted to the right lane only when you’re basically a rolling roadblock in the center lane going slower than the flow of traffic.

 

Doesn’t matter what’s reasonable. California’s 55mph speed limit isn’t reasonable either. The law is the law. It’s pretty cut and dried what you need to do when you earn money.