Side mirrors via video

The plastic panels where glass mirrors would traditionally mount will come off and the glass mirrors go in place. The driver I talked to keeps his glass mirrors under his bunk.

 

The first guy Schneider had testing these ran 5 years without a problem. They are surprisingly durable. They're now freightliner OEM, so any dealer should be able to repair/replace.

The system costs $5000, replacing a mirror assembly on a cascadia is $800, so let's call it $4,000 more than normal mirrors.

Assuming $3/gal rough math says you'll save a minimum of $1,000 a year in fuel costs. So it's paid for itself in 3.5 years.

You can also tie it in to a dvir system so you have side view recordings with little additional hardware. So knock off a half year.

Then if it prevents one accident you're money ahead.

On a cost benefit analysis, it's an easy sell.

 

A Maverick truck was parked beside me at a truck stop,truck had the original mirrors,then the camera system.A video screen was mounted inside the cab on the passenger side in the right front corner of the cab.
I never saw the driver to ask him about it.

 

But can you get your Netflix feed on those monitors?

 

What's that; steer with one hand and moan with the other?