New Camera System Coming to all company trucks.

As far as anyone knows, they do not. Thank you for your service.

 

thanks for the reply..and as for the service it was an honor to serve my country

 

Good thread, now my opinion...a total violation of one's privacy. I would never drive OTR with an interior camera with audio capability. Driving OTR, my truck is my home and I expect some measure of privacy within my home. If I was running a daycab and went home every night, that would be much different. When will the insanity end? Just my opinion...

 

I wouldn't even drive a day cab with rearward facing cams. If I can't cruise down the road talking to myself in privacy, them I'd rather flip burgers.

 

Why is it that you drive a truck?
There is no right or wrong answer.
That will play a huge role in your attitude I suppose.
For those who got in to the business for the solitude and absence of micro management it could be a huge issue I suppose.
For some this may be no attraction at all.
I have found that there are people that are very capable but are happier being regularly guided by input and have their actions evaluated all the time.
Seems to make them more secure or something.

 

The day I cannot find a company that doesn't use driver camera, is the day I'll end my career truck driving. And this fabricated 400,000 driver shortage by 2020 the industry talks about is probably going to double... thanks to insurance companies... and isn't swift big enough to insure themselves? So this is just a low blow if that's the case. They pay .36 CPM right after training, which was really tempting, but I'd rather take a pay cut and work for a company that doesn't invade your privacy, curtain or no curtain, that's just ##'n creepy.

 

Any other truck companies to stay away from that have driver facing cameras?

 

Exactly what I was thinking too.

I'm at a terminal right now and I was just outside talking to a Swiftie with 11 years experience. He is a trainer and even has a student on his truck now.

He said what a lot of us are thinking, the day that camera gets installed we are gone. Really a shame that someone thinks this idea will do anything other than causing them to lose experienced drivers.

Just look at the job and lifestyle we choose as truckers. We are independent, private individuals that like our solitude. Most of us think of our trucks as our second home and some of us, me included, consider our truck our primary home. I don't care what Swift says about when this camera will record, if I can't personally monitor and view what is recorded and when it records then it is an invasion of my privacy. We aren't driving taxis or limos here, we are driving a vehicle that is basically a moving domicile, a mobile residence - even if temporary. Someone has to put their foot down and say enough is enough already.

I hope this move is retracted or I'm gone as soon as I know my truck is going into the shop to get it installed.

 

Maybe I missed it, however, the video on the driver portal didn't mention the interior camera having audio capabilities. Odd that this coincides with the new raise...

 

Well, I suppose time will be the judge of whether or not it pans out that way. Other companies have installed them and are still up and running, so I'm not jumping with joy in the inane belief that this will be the demise of Swift Transportation. A lot of people say a lot of things... not so many actually follow through with it.
Which, don't get me wrong - I'd love to see this bite Swift in the ###, hard. I'm just not so optimistic about that end result.