Every camera company is a bad company.

That's what I was told at a job where they had inward facing cameras. NO ONE IS WATCHING YOU! But a shipping lead, showed me on his desktop computer, a website, where everyone that drove there, had pictures of them, usually with a goofy expression on their face. From different times, different days, etc. The one shipping manager told one driver she needed to quit rolling stop signs. The stop signs she was rolling were in a customers complex, where NO ONE stopped. including the customers own trucks. Yeah, no one is watching.....

 

Like I was saying in another thread. We human beings have a love affair with surveillance and voyeurism. Movies, reality TV, pornography, news, sports etc...we walk around with a small computer in our hands all day, every day that is both a camera and video device.
We photograph and video everything and post it on YouTube. So to think that no one is observing you on the inward facing camera would be a pretty niaveve way to think.

 

I was just writing a essay on these #### things in another thread, and seen this.

Let me assure you, anyone with access to the ELD system can login and watch these camera's anytime! I've known this for along time, but now being on the safety advisory board of a medium size company, I literally have a login/password to access any truck in the fleet in real time. Also these things are recording 24/7/365, we can pull footage going back 6 months no problem. 5 days can be pulled instantly, after that you need to make a request since its already archived.

Inside, Outside, Audio and they can be tired into the ELD's, Eye tracking, The Anti-Collision Systems/Driver Aids etc etc etc. Its the ultimate compliance tool, and that's how companies are using it. Some companies are using it not to pay safety bonus's and just general driver harassment. This is being done to both company drivers and now leased on O/O's.

I'm glad I'm done driving TBH, I'm now in operations, and part of the safety advisory board, to bring some driver perspective to the table. But honestly, the future is not looking good. Somedays I think all they want, is cheap obedient slaves, who will take unlimited abuse and harassment; who never go home.

 

"Keep Truckin" is being sold as the one stop shopping solution for ELD, dash cam, and driver monitoring solutions. Including audio and video, monitored in real time. Unlimited archiving available for a price. "Now wipe the ketchup off your face and comb your hair, you represent the face of our company!"

 

. Sounds like the bleating of sheeple being led to slaughter.

 

The trucking industry want robots to drive their trucks.
So until they make one that can do our job they will do their best to turn humans into robots.
When I got back in a truck in 2015 I drove a manual and no nanny cr#p. Now this company has a speed camera that slams on the brakes when it takes a picture of an off ramp sign that says 25mph.
No tickets of any kind since 1992 and one not at fault accident.
Yes the forwarded facing are a great invention but he rest of this stuff is wrong more then it is is right. I don't need a noise to tell me there is a light pole on the side of the road. ( blind spot warning) or a truck on my right while backing into a parking spot.
This is why they are importing all the people from solicialist and communist countries, they do what they are told.
I WILL NOT COMPLY.