Driver Facing Cameras?

3rd party companies monitor the camera events before flagging them for your company safety dept. I am sure these minimum wage workers save and distribute anything that would make their coworkers laugh. It’s like Big Brother is always watching but you’re being watched by millennial twats.

 

I think you will be seeing more of this in the coming years and it's not the company's that want it, but their insurance companies.

 

There are cameras already in the office. And they can be hacked as any camera can.

 

Friend of mines son works for one of the big carrirers,does local P+D. They put cameras in their trucks facing out and in. They told him the driver facing cameras were for just there for emergencies,ignore them. The day after the cameras were installed,he was called in the office and reprimanded for smoking in the truck. So much for emergencies.

 

As drivers, we talk a big game about being professional. But as soon as a method for accountability is introduced, lots of people cry foul. Just like police body cameras, these things will exonerate you if you're doing your job how you're supposed to. How can there be an expectation of privacy while you're in public while on the job?

 

I would say part of what owner operators or many truckers want is freedom to not be watched over their shoulder all the time.
The last camera I had as a company driver would record of you touched the line twice in a 30 second period. It would often go off because the lane departure camera would not be on track correctly. I wasn't a fan of that but now I'm an owner so no more if that.
You have some couples who run together and say your wife is getting up not fully dressed and now the camera goes off on you. People don't like that. People want to be people and not feel like robots. Besides with the technology to detect your speed, when you touched the brakes, what gear you are in and your dash cam which probably has audio, someone who is going to no tell the truth probably would get caught with all this any way. With police investigation of your phone and so forth. Just be honest and don't lie and we probably would never have had to go to this point.

 

Fortunately, Volvos have great sun visors. Block the view. Darn shame.