Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

You would have wasted your money. As long as they're outward facing, I wouldn't care. Inward facing means they get to watch me drive home and clean it out, and every time I move forward to put some of my stuff on the front seat to unload, they get flipped off. Although, if I am still here if/when they install them, I hope they have audio recording built in. Just so I can permanently mount a soap box under my seat, and they can hear what I think of them and their abilities of how they're doing their job.

Wy-Moore had outward facing cameras that recorded 24/7 and uploaded to their system for review. The only time they looked at it was when something triggered a critical event and the camera got a big '!' on the indicator lights. They were actually useful. One of our veteran drivers got hit on a backroad when someone crossed the double yellow and pinwheeled down the entire driver side of his truck, totaling her car. She claimed it was our driver, but the company downloaded the event to the trooper and it clearly showed he did nothing wrong. She ended up fixing the truck and trailer, and buying the load of glass he was carrying. They pulled all the data from his ECM and video of the wreck and said he did everything exactly like you should during and after the crash. They said they could have used the footage for a truck driver training school example....except for the stream of 4 letter words that he used when she hit him.

Another veteran driver had a defective trailer and dumped an entire load of glass on I-35 just 5 miles from his delivery in San Antonio, during morning rush hour. At 1st they blamed him for braking too hard(but not hard enough to trigger the camera) but they ran thru his entire trip on the camera and found nothing. Turns out, it was one of our new trailers (on one of it's first loads) and the rubber they glue to the foot of the glass frame came unglued and just slid off the feet, then the glass was sitting on bare metal, and the next mild braking in traffic, it was like it was on ice and just slid out from under the straps and thru the brand new conestoga tarp. They later discovered that all the new trailers they had just bought had the same issue and had to reglue all of the rubber on the feet because some Einstein decided to save a few bucks and buy cheaper adhesive.

I actually got a "well done young man" from the VP when mine caught me getting pushed off onto the left shoulder by a distracted driver of an empty log truck on I-95. He said other than the language I used in regards to the ignorant inbread behind the other truck wheel, I handled the situation perfectly, but said he probably would have said something similar if he were in my shoes.

 

And if anyone believes that your opinion really matters to this company, please PM me, I have some prime ocean front property in western AZ I would like to interest you in at a reasonable price.

If our opinion mattered, then they wouldn't have this collision avoidance, driver annoyance system on their equipment. If polled, I bet an overwhelming majority of drivers would say it does more harm than good.

Plus, we'd have APU's instead of this opti-idle bull poop

 

Bad day to need DEF in NE. Stopped in Aurora, NE at the Love's, DEF, the laundry room water lines and some of the water lines for the women's restroom were frozen. Get to N. Platte to top off the reefer before dropping, Flying J had signs on the pump, DEF was frozen. Went to top off the empty I picked up, and the Love's only had 2 or 3 DEF pumps working, the rest were frozen. Thankfully the Grand Island Bosselmans DEF was working, but sloooooow. So I only got 5 gallons and gave up.