Swift To Remove Driver Facing Cameras

Prime trialed them and, at least for now, decided not to go with them (or the outward facing cameras either). They didn't make any public statement that I know of.

The only reason I knew about them was it came up in our Smith system class and the instructor told us they had trialed them in a number of trucks and nixed the idea. The reason he gave was that having evidence of a driver's misbehavior wasn't going to help them in a lawsuit. May have just been conjecture on his part.

May have just been conjecture on his part.

Without conjecture, truck stops would sound like libraries. And all you'd hear in the rec center at the terminals is the bounce of ping pong balls.

Errol's gonna get fat with all the oreo's he can eat now.

I shop at Costco.

Yes, the inside cams are shut down. And I'm in the large "minority" - let the cameras roll!

Just two days ago I was called in for stopping "past the intersection barrier line" (the crosswalk) on a dark and stormy night. Yes, I did. But the inside camera showed I was paying attention to the street, so I was good on that account.

I just got the Qualcomm message and see there already 19 posts! What a hot topic. We can now cover our inside facing camera lens. This is a big policy change from the largest carrier, so will have a ripple effect in the trucking industry. I have to admit, when the camera was installed in my truck I driver, I was not happy.

I can't help but think Swift was either loosing drivers or could not hire experienced drivers because of the Camera? Possibly, there were lawsuits against the company based on the camera recordings?

I have mixed feelings about the in-cab camera now. The positive for me was it remove 100% my usage of a cell phone while driving for using the the app 'trucker path'. I was written up, so switched to a tablet on dash. Much safer. Cells phones are a big problem and are a vice.

The failure with Swift was that the implementation of the camera was horrible. Firstly, it was recording when when the truck was off, but this was changed, improvement. The events, we had no way to review unless driving to a Swift terminal. Could Lynx not design an app to watch the camera events? The events that recorded my driving, such as hard breaking, etc. and talking with my DM , did not help me much. In fact, my braking suffered because I was nervous about recording an event. There is a point were you can't be much better of a driver..

I tried once as a mentor and with a student my 10 hour day, I was strapped into the sleeper bunk. Per policy, I could not sit up. It was partly what kept me from continuing mentoring. The student received 3 events in the month and two separate occasions, we had to detour into a terminal to watch the videos.

I feel the inside camera has a place and should be used in these situations: 1. All new drivers for a determined time, 6-8 months, should be required to have the camera. It is a great training device for new drivers.

2. The camera should record and be used if there is ANY accident. That is valuable data and is important to know what happened inside during an accident. If there is a fatal accident, what was happening inside?

I learned to live with inside camera, but the experience was not enjoyable.