How to deal with a driver facing camera?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Dark_Majesty_06, Mar 6, 2015.

  1. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    "Why are you reading and not sleeping?'

    "How come you got out of the truck @ XX:XX for almost an hour? You could have been driving!"

    "You should always drive with both hands on the wheel!"


    Yeah, #### that!



    Some of the states have (or at least had) laws regarding footwear, but Joe is right; nothing in the green book.

    There has never been a law about white sheets. It's a myth that actually predates the U.S. Marshal stories. It was always Connecticut, back in the days when they'd block every exit to force you to the 84E scale in the rest area. (Do they still do that? Don't get over there much.)
     
  2. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    Connecticut has been the only state besides California ever to bust out the tape measure on me to check my axles.
     
  3. EZ Money

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    Wow! They could care less about driver retention.....BOTTOM FEEDER!
    Out of those 20 guys maybe 2 will stay....that is real profitable!
    They must like paying for DOT physicals and drug screens...

    So who is this 400 truck company?....So I can avoid them like the plague!
     
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    This dude is an Internet tough guy. He's a troll. And a coward. He's probably 5 foot nothing and weighs 140lbs. To make up for getting made fun of in high school for being such a weak link, he starts dispatching trucks with this type of attitude because he knows he's hidden on the radio. As such, over the computer. People like this go nowhere in life and end up reaping what they sow in the end. He'll never say who he works for because then there is a chance he could be found and confronted. And confrontation face to face one on one scares him more then anything in his miserable waste of a life. He would make an excellent police officer. I was surrounded by these little wimps in my short career in law enforcement. These are the types that plague most police departments and the reason I am no longer in that field. No honor. No integrity. Just sour at life and hatred for all people.
     
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    They don't care about keeping good drivers then wonder why this #### happens.


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  6. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Making payments or not, No cameras will be watching me.
     
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    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    when you have enough dumb drivers working for nothing you can afford that every now and then.
     
  8. striker

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    My boss jokingly suggested he was going to install one in all the trucks, I told that would be a bad idea, he asked why, I told him I don't look good naked.
     
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    Correction, sir. Not just any idiot can be a dispatcher. It takes an especially dedicated idiot (and we're talking "short bus special" here in dedication) to be a dispatcher!

    Trust me, I know. Been a driver, now working my way into dispatch. I'm a super duper extra-special ultra idiot! Thankfully, I have a horde of patient drivers to work with.
     
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  10. truckon

    truckon Swamp Thing

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    I dont think i'd be taking this guy seriously, first he claims hes local, then next even swift won't hire him (on drugs?) , now he's running 400 trucks... so yeah, thats the internet for ya..





     
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