SWIFT In Cab Cameras

Im in no way saying they are a great idea but I do plan on having my own dash cam if the company I hire with doesnt have them. They can protect as much as hurt and there in lies the whole line of this debate. A company doesnt want its driver to be at fault opens ways for al kinds of law suits so yeah the camera can protect you the companies lawyer if doing there job will argue to your side. in the event the qc is what takes your eyes off the road then doesn't that make it your dms fault for sending you those messages?

Hate to break this news to you but some companies such as the one I drive for prohibits you from having any recording devices in your truck unless they install it. Don't go buying one until you check with the company you get hired on with.

Dont plan on it so far the only thing they prohibit is weapons of any kind concealed and tazers. But I plan to get threw training and see what they allow not going to crash my career before it gets started.

Im in no way saying they are a great idea but I do plan on having my own dash cam if the company I hire with doesnt have them. They can protect as much as hurt and there in lies the whole line of this debate. A company doesnt want its driver to be at fault opens ways for al kinds of law suits so yeah the camera can protect you the companies lawyer if doing there job will argue to your side. in the event the qc is what takes your eyes off the road then doesn't that make it your dms fault for sending you those messages?

Hate to break this news to you but some companies such as the one I drive for prohibits you from having any recording devices in your truck unless they install it. Don't go buying one until you check with the company you get hired on with.

I'm going to go on a limb here and say this; whatever company prohibits you from having a dash cam in your truck is a company that you probably should avoid. Not allowing the driver to have a dash cam to protect him/her is just absurd.

Im in no way saying they are a great idea but I do plan on having my own dash cam if the company I hire with doesnt have them. They can protect as much as hurt and there in lies the whole line of this debate. A company doesnt want its driver to be at fault opens ways for al kinds of law suits so yeah the camera can protect you the companies lawyer if doing there job will argue to your side. in the event the qc is what takes your eyes off the road then doesn't that make it your dms fault for sending you those messages?

Hate to break this news to you but some companies such as the one I drive for prohibits you from having any recording devices in your truck unless they install it. Don't go buying one until you check with the company you get hired on with.

i do not care if they say if you can have it i would still use it. My dash cam is for me, i will never stop using it regardless of what else is there.

Daniel you do need to tone it down. I have noticed your sarcasm and all knowing tone gets out of hand. You make some valid points but get carried away with your enthusiasm.

As far as locking this thread, that is absurd. Let the people voice their opinion. Don't read this but don't try to tell everyone else not to.

Would be nice to see a discussion go the distance without the snarky comments and accusations.

Daniel, I bought myself a camera THEN talked to the safety manager who advised me that it could be used against me just as well...

Daniel you do need to tone it down. I have noticed your sarcasm and all knowing tone gets out of hand. You make some valid points but get carried away with your enthusiasm.

As far as locking this thread, that is absurd. Let the people voice their opinion. Don't read this but don't try to tell everyone else not to.

Would be nice to see a discussion go the distance without the snarky comments and accusations.

Daniel, I bought myself a camera THEN talked to the safety manager who advised me that it could be used against me just as well...

thats the great thing about it being under your control. its only works when you need it :D

Dont plan on it so far the only thing they prohibit is weapons of any kind concealed and tazers. But I plan to get threw training and see what they allow not going to crash my career before it gets started.

Thank God my company doesn't prohibit either AFAIK. :)

Daniel you do need to tone it down. I have noticed your sarcasm and all knowing tone gets out of hand. You make some valid points but get carried away with your enthusiasm.

As far as locking this thread, that is absurd. Let the people voice their opinion. Don't read this but don't try to tell everyone else not to.

Would be nice to see a discussion go the distance without the snarky comments and accusations.

Daniel, I bought myself a camera THEN talked to the safety manager who advised me that it could be used against me just as well...

A dash cam can save your career. I've caught accidents on mine, even caught a car brake checking me one time. If I hit the car, how will I prove that I wasn't brake checked?

A dash cam is a must have for every trucker. For a company to tell you that it's forbidden is wrong. It could be used against you too, but if you are a safe driver and maintain proper following distance then you don't have much to worry about. That's like telling me I'm not allowed to use my GPS.

And I apologize for my sarcasm. A lot of folks here are good friends of mine and we mess around here and there. It's all just for fun to make a boring day bright. And for the record, I don't really know what "getting carried away with your enthusiasm" means?

I'll say this about dash cams looking out the windshield......I wouldn't want to drive 10 feet in a big rig today without one. For 15 years I watched people do insane things in front of me. With a ton of solid defensive driving and a little grace from God I never got in a wreck but I've had 1000 close calls. I'd say maybe three or four times the close call had nothing to do with anyone else, it was just a matter of sliding around a bit on really nasty roads. But the other 99% of the time it was another driver doing something they shouldn't have. I've had big rigs barrel roll in front of me, cars hit bridges, vehicles pass me going the wrong way on the Interstate , huge pileups right in front of me turn into giant enfernos, and all kinds of insane stuff. Back in the day you couldn't just go buy a dash cam for $200 or I would have had one. It would have caught things that made Hollywood movie stunts look boring.

The idea that a company wouldn't allow a dash cam in a big rig because it might be used against them is ludicrous. I can't imagine a professional driver who has spent a considerable amount of time behind the wheel not wanting a dash cam filming the insanity that happens in front of them on a daily basis. Truck drivers are supposed to be the safest drivers on the highway by far. If someone in the office thinks there's a better chance of incriminating their own professional drivers than there is protecting them from the knuckleheads around them you really have to wonder how they came to that conclusion. The math just doesn't make sense.

The safer you are as a driver the more you should want to protect yourself from what other people around you are doing. I know if I get in a wreck there's a 99% chance it isn't going to be my fault so I want it on camera. If it is my fault then I screwed up and that's on me. But it's almost certainly not going to be, so it makes sense to capture everything on camera.

One person wrote about locking this thread. My vote is to keep it open. I keep digging in TT and I keep learning- the good and the bad. I've gotten great advice such as getting CDL before schooling and many, many other things. Also the many negatives which wake me up every time I read something new. THANKS. GREAT website.