SWIFT In Cab Cameras

Just one example of why Swift may be installing driver cams. Video included in the link provided...

Dash Cam Video May Contradict Truck Driver’s Story

A tanker truck driver claims that he crashed into a line of parked cars because he was swerving to avoid an oncoming vehicle — but recent dash cam footage says otherwise, according to the trucking company he works for and police.

The April 14 accident happened on West Inman Avenue near Madison Avenue in Rahway, New Jersey. Truck driver, Perry Shawki told police that an oncoming car passed into his lane, forcing him to swerve to evade it. Shawki said he then tried to turn back onto the road, but was unable and crashed into the parked cars.

The dual facing camera shows Shawki listening to music, then when the crash happens, he is suddenly trying to turn his truck back toward the middle of the road. No car is visible in the video.

The company that Shawki drove for, USA Carteret LLC. of Carteret, turned the dash cam video over to the police. After viewing the video, police issued him summons for reckless driving, speeding, failure to wear a seat belt and failure to stay in his lane of traffic.

even in that the driver facing cam is not needed to see though the BS its actually the forward facing cam that went against his story, There is nothing you need from a driver facing cam that a forward one will not tell you. It does not matter what the drivers is ding if he is distracted he is distracted, and slow reaction time will be evident on the forward facing cam.

All the driver facing cam is good for is the ability to fire garbage drivers with the "false" events. Its been said and confirmed by the drivecam company that hitting a rough patch of road will trigger and "event" and transmit the data, so you can be scratching your balls when you hit a bump in the road now the company can see you not having 2 hands on the wheel.

On another note I talked with a Crete driver last night about their use of drivecams, he does not have one and when they said something to him about it he responded with he has his own dashcam and saftey was fine with it and did not say another thing.

Someone said Swifts CSA score is bad which is true HOWEVER it is not due to collisions or any time of accident it is because of the stupid amount of tickets that drivers are getting. Swift had nearly 2000 speeding tickets by the middle of Febuary of this year, also the number of DOT reportable accidents (ones involving disable vehicles or people needing to be taken away in an ambulance or death) was under 750 last year which is quite low for a fleet of over 18000 trucks.

Am I mistaken or did I read that Swift claims the camera will only record 10 seconds before an "event" and 10 seconds after?

How the heck do they know something is going to happen 10 seconds before an event. I must have read it wrong.

I don't buy it. I think we need to see some actual proof besides you stating that you watched a video. Maybe a QC message? A Swift safety video? I need actual proof before I throw Swift under the bus.

It's true seen video myself HOWEVER the camera both inside and out ONLY show 10 seconds of footage before and 10 seconds after a critical event such as lock the breaks, turn way to hard or swerve, hit something or push the button. So if your texting on your phone and run off the road they will see you and you will know it by the blinking red light on the Qualcomm. Now I don't know about everyone's driving but I seen that light once when I hit the brakes to hard avoiding a colision. So this year thus far they would have seen my mug all of 20 seconds NOT a big deal. I have a dash cam and 1 camera not 2 at a resolution of only 720 creates a 1.2 gig file every 10 minutes. Now if you think there going to upload about 2.5 gig every 10 minutes from how many trucks?????? Your wayyyyyy to paranoid. They just don't work like that.

Am I mistaken or did I read that Swift claims the camera will only record 10 seconds before an "event" and 10 seconds after?

How the heck do they know something is going to happen 10 seconds before an event. I must have read it wrong.

Cam runs all the time but overwrites the file every so often probably every 4 hours at most likely every 1 or 2 hours

Am I mistaken or did I read that Swift claims the camera will only record 10 seconds before an "event" and 10 seconds after?

How the heck do they know something is going to happen 10 seconds before an event. I must have read it wrong.

it record 24/7 when ANY event occurs it auto uploads the video before and after. An event can be anything from real crash to hitting a pothole.

Am I mistaken or did I read that Swift claims the camera will only record 10 seconds before an "event" and 10 seconds after?

How the heck do they know something is going to happen 10 seconds before an event. I must have read it wrong.

it record 24/7 when ANY event occurs it auto uploads the video before and after. An event can be anything from real crash to hitting a pothole.

That makes sense. Thanks.

I get the dash cams, but what are in cab cams suppose to be used for?

Wow. Ok I really tried like crazy to let you guys discuss this like adults. I let a bunch of stuff go that I normally wouldn't just to see if you'd get this back on track and have a worthwhile conversation. Obviously you're not capable of it so out comes the hammer. I just deleted a few comments and I'll be deleting plenty more I'm sure.

So ends that experiment. Sad that you guys can't do any better that. let me call out a few people here:

Daniel (not Daniel B), Eckoh, and Indy have all had comments deleted and more to come I'm sure. Nothing like having to take time out of my day to babysit adults.

I get the dash cams, but what are in cab cams suppose to be used for?

The idea is to see what the driver was doing leading up to a wreck or some sort of incident like hard braking or a hard curve. They want to know if the driver was texting or reaching for something or falling asleep maybe. Then again, maybe the driver did everything right and wasn't distracted in any way. That's what they want to find out.

They're also working on a technology that watches a driver's eyes to determine if they're falling asleep. If so, an alarm will sound.

Thank you, Brett, for putting this thread out of its misery. In over 200 comments we have hashed this out pretty good. Others can read this and make up their own mind: from aluminum foil hat people to "I'm a safe driver, anyway, so what else is new?"

Trucks already have warning systems for over-speed, rumble strip alarms, and following distance radar. I believe these make us all better drivers. With the schedules drivers have (24/7 if we could), the coming nod-off alarm can only make for safer drivers. I don't like the idea of HQ getting the information, but it's better than drifting into the guardrail.