In Cab Surviellance?

Well thanks for that vivid thought! I'll have that plastered in my brain as I try and take my Hazmat today. MRC

Your very welcome. Anything I can help with I will try to do.

When I was with TMC I had a driver facing camera (they were just testing, i think less than 200 trucks had them). The camera wasn't always recording, it was just triggered either by a critical event (hard brake, collision) or if the driver pressed the button on the camera. The footage was then sent to a third party to evaluate (making sure it wasn't a false positive) before sending it on to the company. I never had mine record anything. If the camera worked as described above, I would always be fine with it. Any that the employer can just "peek in" for any reason, or no reason at all, I would have a problem with.

This is what I have in my truck. The company has no way of "activating the camera" to see what you are doing. It is event activated (or you can hit the button) and a third party reviews the recording. The company provides the criteria to the third party on what to look for (I think it is three or four different things) and if it doesn't involve any of the criteria, they don't want to see the recording. They told me in orientation that the camera is primarily for litigation. I think if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, there should not be a problem with it. But if you like to fiddle with your phone while driving or have unauthorized riders and such things, sooner or later you will get caught. I like the idea because as a rookie, I feel like I am being protected.

I find the whole idea of driver facing cameras creepy. I don`t care if they are critical event activated or not. I would have to go drive for someone else if my company started that kind of crazy.

As for the NSA, well, there is no way they can actively monitor all of the data they are collecting, but, they can go back and find things to use against a person if they decide one may be a "threat" or needs to be taken down a few notches.

In my personal opinion, none of this should be allowed.

Well thanks for that vivid thought! I'll have that plastered in my brain as I try and take my Hazmat today. MRC

Hey Guyjax, just to let you know I aced the Hazmat test today ( I had to get those images out of my head yesterday) Next up is TWIC. Take care,

Well thanks for that vivid thought! I'll have that plastered in my brain as I try and take my Hazmat today. MRC

Hey Guyjax, just to let you know I aced the Hazmat test today ( I had to get those images out of my head yesterday) Next up is TWIC. Take care,

Good deal. Glad you passed and your real lucky TWIC is not a test or I would realy give you something to remember and think about .lol

Unfortunately, privacy doesn't really exist anymore. Like others have stated, the government is recording everything through our phones. That's life and there's no "putting the genie back in the bottle" when it comes to technology. Driver-facing cameras are indeed creepy but they're becoming far more prevalent and will ultimately be almost universal. Same with cameras facing outside the truck. Honestly, I'm shocked that trucking companies haven't had cameras facing out the windshield for years already.

Please allow me to say I really enjoy each of you and your comments. I support every trucker out on the road and try to watch out for you guys best I can. I hope when I retire in 18 months I will join you. In regards to this posting, I must say....cameras suck if they are monitoring your every move and word. As a police officer I was just issued a body cam. That's in addition to my patrol car front camera. This body cam records every 20 seconds regardless if it is on or not and then rewinds and records again another 20 seconds and so on. It can be activated by me pushing a button on the receiver that I wear on my belt or in my shirt or it can be activated by remote (cellphone)...If the record button is pressed it saves the recording of the previous 20 seconds. I can not ever erase any data. It is in there until Admin gets it. This sucks when I got to the bathroom. I try to remember to put that damn thing in my pocket every time I go but I am sure I have missed a few times lol...so....hopefully it was recorded over. I have to either wear this body cam on my shoulder or on my eyeglasses. Which looks weird and intimidating. Now my car cam comes on when my blue lights come on and I have to remember to turn it off. Sometimes when I go by a business or house that is armed with a security alarm the frequency has set of my dash cam. All in all tho if you have a lap top or other device in your vehicle that has a live cam portal used for Skype or other telecommuting face to face camera...I hear it can be activated remotely as well so your probably being recorded/watched anyway. I keep tape over mine. We are also monitored by way of an agency cell phone 24 hours a day 365 days a week with global positioning. They can tell where we are if they want to. Even when we are off duty. And lastly when we are back on duty we have an on board computer for dispatch to calls and running plates and drivers license etc... I had a 911 operator show me that when my computer is on and logged in to the system, she can see where I patrol, stop and go all shift. The ideal behind that was to make sure we were going the right way to a call.... hmmm....I am like most of you, I don't want someone looking at me all the time as I would feel with a camera turned on you. I support dash cams and rear cams. They will save your butt. For some great spare time viewing Google wrecks caught on dash cam...very interesting... Also from what I am being told, vehicle manufactures now have modules on the newer cars and trucks that will record your actions moments just prior to a hard impact. Braking, steering, speed, etc...Kinda like a planes black box. So that data is going to be there. I guess I am trying to say, I wouldn't want to feel that someone was starring at me all the time and I would rather have some privacy behind the wheel. Then again, I should be used to it by now huh?

WOW!!!! I hear what your saying on the privacy, especially the bod cam. I started this question because of my UPS driver, right now he can opt out of the cam until next year. The truck is GPS'd, they know where it is at all times, how long it has stopped, what speed he is going etc... Now on top of that the scanner that they have on the belt is also GPS'd so they know when he gets out of the truck and where. They know how long it takes him to get your signature or when he dropped the package at your door and if you strike up a conversation with him, how long he stood around talking to you. Oh, back to the truck. The minute he opens the cargo door to enter the back they know, the shelves themselves are GPS coded so when a package is removed, YOU Guessed It!! Now you know why they get the big bucks to drive those Brown trucks and they don't even need a CDL. So this type of job environment is why I asked the question to see just how bad it has got, so far!! Take Care and keep on smiling, you could be on Candid Camera!! MRC

Well thanks for that vivid thought! I'll have that plastered in my brain as I try and take my Hazmat today. MRC

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I am hoping to start Swift school very soon, i got to get in touch with my recruiter again tomorrw and ask even more questions... However i think the idea of forward facing cams is a good idea... At that point they should be able to tell if you were doing what was right or not... I have to feel bad for guys like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDzHw-HK1A) who have people drive stupid and end up in front of a big rig.... i just hope that truck driver was ok....