Every camera company is a bad company.

I'm retired after 38 yrs. My attitude about companies with cab facing cameras is if they don't trust me with their equipment then they shouldn't hire me. I got into this in 80. The company would give you toll money maybe a road atlas and keys to a truck with bills to a loaded trailer. No cameras or GPS. Just deliver the load and call us when you're empty.

 

I don't like the driver facing because it gives over-zealous office flunkies a career. I can see a desk jockey jumping all over a recordable event and requiring all kinds of "coaching" and training and other over-reactive stuff purely to justify his function in the organization. Making a mountain out of a molehill, ya know...?

A lot of these office folks don't even hide their contempt for drivers, who they see as lowly, non-college degreed grunt workers. They think we're a bunch of stupid children that must be constantly watched/corrected/scolded. Like most bureaucracies, the more paperwork/red-tape (in the name of 'safety', of course) they can generate, the more work they have. It's bad enough without video. The driver cams just give one more way for them to look like a hero to their boss by pestering the drivers (who're making their job possible in the first place) over non-sense.

 

On the other hand.....what about the driver watching videos, while driving 65MPH down the road, or texting the current girlfriend? I don't like driver facing cameras, but they are here. because of the above stated reasons, and more.

 

"Every camera company is a bad company"

I dunno, i think nikon is fine

 

Polaroid!

 

When I go to KY tomorrow afternoon my camera will have finally been installed. I told my boss that the first thing I am going to do is cover the inside lens and microphone hole with black tape. Shouldnt be an issue since they told me they were not using them.......