In-Cab Video Cameras That Watch The Driver!!!!

Do these come with a face time app so you can talk with your dispatcher face to face?

 

Are you directing that at me? I don't believe I have ever said a single word about governed trucks on this forum. And I certainly never used the word love in connection with any of the things you've mentioned above.

 

There are quite a few things I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing someone is watching me do it. Picking my nose is the least of my concerns. What about rocking out to my death metal? What about switching out my CDs? What about days I struggle to make it to my customer(or shutdown location) where I still have legal hours but I do the "bob and shake"? What about leaning out the window to curse out a douchebag and asking him he's got a "########## problem"? What about days I have to honk my airhorn? Do they really need to know this stuff? So much for our rights not to incriminate ourselves.

 

You act as though there are not already cameras watching workers do their jobs in tons of companies in this country. Warehouses, offices, factories, retail stores. There are examples of all of them that have cameras which watch workers do their jobs every single day. Just because you're always been able to do as you wish with no one watching you until now, doesn't mean you've got the right to do as you wish with no one watching you.

The company owns the truck and you are representing the company when you're driving it. If you work for a company that has a problem with you giving the finger to other motorists, then you might end up having a problem. If you worked behind the counter at McDonalds and gave a customer the finger and asked him if he's got a '####### problem"? would you expect to keep your job for long? A job is a job is a job. If the deal changes where you work and you no longer like it, quit and find a job someplace else. If the deal changes industry wide and you no longer like it, find another career. Complaining about it does nothing.

 

Yes but your private area isn't behind the cash register at McDONALD'S and I only go on "customer service mode" for the shippers and receivers and the cops. I honestly don't see your analogy and why anybody should put up with this crap. When I'm driving, my only concerns should be the speed limit, the hours of service, and stupid four wheeler habits. The company is the freight, the logo, and the Qualcomm. Beyond that, I'm effectively driving my home.

 

That was true story as well. A guy cut me off and flipped me the finger like I was the one who committed an infraction. Then he stopped at a red light but blew through it when he saw my truck rolling up. I didn't return the finger but I did use firm language. And there are also days where I feel a little off and have to shake my head every now and then to fight fatigue while I head to my shut down location or the customer. I also like beboping to hard rock, and I can quite safely change out my CDs without getting distracted. Why should I worry about prying eyes invading my common lifestyle choices when I expect a certain degree of "hands off" to trucking?

 

Well that's how you do it. And that may well be how your particular company wants you to do it. But other companies might see it differently. Its their truck, they're paying you to drive it. If they want you to be in 'customer service mode' every moment you're being paid i.e. driving, its within their rights to ask for that. And its within their rights to monitor you as long is it is within the law, which I should point out is NOT actually what this thread is about but I digress. They can ask for it, they can monitor it, if you don't like it, there's the door.

This topic has drifted a bit and is now swerving into the same territory that most of the EOBR threads go. Where a bunch of drivers see it as some sort of illegal infringement on their civil liberties or some such and talk about how we need to start threads like this and sign petitions and band together in order to stop it from becoming law. And my attitude is exactly the same in both cases. Good luck with that. We as drivers agree on almost nothing. We will argue endlessly about something as simple as whether or not to flash headlights when passing. We have no lobby power in Washington. None. And we have no real sense brotherhood. At the end of the day, the vast majority of our brethren are doing what is best for themselves at that moment with no consideration for the bigger picture of how their choices might negatively impact all of us later. And that is why my sig line says what it does.

This is the industry we get. We have no one to blame but ourselves and it is highly unlikely that we will ever join together in numbers large enough to have any kind of meaningful impact. So your choices are accept it or leave IMHO.

 

You can expect it all you like but it doesn't change the fact that its their truck and they're paying you to operate it. There are no 'squatters rights' when it comes to this sort of thing. Just because you've enjoyed a certain amount of hands off privacy while driving does not mean you're entitled to it.

 

I agree. I know exactly where my CD player is and where my CDs are, it's quite easy to change the discs without taking your eyes off the road