SWIFT In Cab Cameras

I worked for a year with a company that uses this camera system. I didn't like it but I didn't have anything bad come from it. Some cameras were very sensitive and I set them off several times. Hooking up a trailer, bumping a dock, pot hole or bump in freeway, dumping the clutch, and hard braking.

The videos were reviewed by a third party and if nothing happened and the driver didn't break any rules they wouldn't send them to the company.

At the driver meetings they would show videos of accidents and road rage from drivers that worked at different terminals. They wouldn't show videos of drivers in our location as to not embarrass them, but make one think other terminals are watching our videos.

Even though it never effected me I don't care for it, but if Prime put one in my truck today I wouldn't leave the company because of it. Although I may take another job down the road after I accomplish a couple of goals I am currently working towards.

Just thought I would share my personal experience with this camera system. One nice thing is I didn't sleep in the truck the company puts their drivers in hotels and I was home 2 days a week. So not as bad as OTR living in the truck with the camera.

are you honestly going to tell me you never stretched in your seat, late at night with no traffic. Reached behind the seat (grabing that jug) to get some juice. Drive with both hands on the wheel when not shifting. I could go on. This video states "we can monitor your bad subconscious behaviors and work with you on correcting them." What does that say to you?

Now we at least know part of the reason you're horrified of this concept. Any other dangerous habits that will remove your CDL?

why are you here??? are you here to troll like a 12 year old or what??? you ARE NOT a driver as it is painfully obvious from your posts. If you are going to contribute do so if are are here to simply to pretend your cool do it elsewhere please.

Ironic, considering you're trolling and it's been called out twice already. I've been refraining from feeding, but, I caved at some point.

This thread is pretty much done. Everything that could've been said, has been said.

Best post: This is America. Quit your job, because others will happily take it. And uhh, I heard In-n-Out is hiring. You might wanna look into that.

1: this is going to lower swifts insurance cost.

2: even if these cameras are $20, times that by the nearly 20,000 trucks they have. Itll be a half million dollar tax write off.

3: many of the intentionally unsafe drivers will leave. Less potential for insurance claims.

Its aalll about saftey first and money second... It is logical from business perspective to go with it.

if you want to be your own boss and learn why swift would do this. Buy yourself 10,000 brand new smart trucks to let a bunch a guys destroy.

are you honestly going to tell me you never stretched in your seat, late at night with no traffic. Reached behind the seat (grabing that jug) to get some juice. Drive with both hands on the wheel when not shifting. I could go on. This video states "we can monitor your bad subconscious behaviors and work with you on correcting them." What does that say to you?

Now we at least know part of the reason you're horrified of this concept. Any other dangerous habits that will remove your CDL?

why are you here??? are you here to troll like a 12 year old or what??? you ARE NOT a driver as it is painfully obvious from your posts. If you are going to contribute do so if are are here to simply to pretend your cool do it elsewhere please.

Ironic, considering you're trolling and it's been called out twice already. I've been refraining from feeding, but, I caved at some point.

This thread is pretty much done. Everything that could've been said, has been said.

Best post: This is America. Quit your job, because others will happily take it. And uhh, I heard In-n-Out is hiring. You might wanna look into that.

Funny, yeah I was working on a rebuttal post for a while earlier today... got about half way through it when I lost interest and said screw it. I'm not wasting anymore of my time talking common sense with so much irrational craziness being spouted.

The inmates seem to have taken over the Asylum on this one my friends.... take cover.

The inmates seem to have taken over the Asylum on this one my friends.... take cover.

Some people find it hard to have a conversation with someone they don't agree with without it turning into a personal name-calling kinda thing. This conversation was a good one with a lot of interesting points but a few tantrums thrown in unfortunately.

I still think the main cause of fear is that some people have the impression that a trucking company can clear themselves of wrongdoing if their driver causes a wreck. They think the company is going to look at the camera and say, "See! It was the driver's fault. We shouldn't take the blame for this. Blame him!"

But that's not how it works. The liability for everything that happens to a company truck falls upon the company itself. That doesn't mean the driver can't also be convicted of wrongdoing if he did something egregious. But the company doesn't walk away without punishment. They are liable for anyone they put in the truck. Why do you think they've developed the CSA system to track inspections, tickets, and accidents? Why do you think a company's score drops when their drivers screw up? Because ultimately the company is responsible for the drivers they hire and what those drivers do behind the wheel.

So don't think that the company is putting a camera in the truck to put the blame on the driver and take the blame off themselves. They're doing everything they can to protect themselves which means not only identifying drivers that are putting the company at risk, but also proving that the driver was doing his job properly when an accident occurred.

If you were cruising down the road, and a car pulled out in front of you and you hit it from behind you would automatically be at fault until proven otherwise. Even with a dash cam the person might be able to argue that if the truck driver was paying attention he could have gotten stopped in time. Combine that with a driver cam showing that the driver was indeed paying full attention at the time and now you have a much clearer defense.

are you honestly going to tell me you never stretched in your seat, late at night with no traffic. Reached behind the seat (grabing that jug) to get some juice. Drive with both hands on the wheel when not shifting. I could go on. This video states "we can monitor your bad subconscious behaviors and work with you on correcting them." What does that say to you?

Now we at least know part of the reason you're horrified of this concept. Any other dangerous habits that will remove your CDL?

Iv got an illustration for you. Say you had cameras monitoring every angle outside, and the truck is operating in a 100% safe manner. Now a car comes and hits the truck, and there is no way to avoid being hit by said car. Do you really think it helps the driver of the truck to have his in cab camera scrutinized by a safety guy that drives a desk all day?

In the video it states that this will be a "in cab coach"; well I'd like to think my 3 yr w/o any accidents earns me the right to work for someone who can have just an ounce of faith in me.

And another thing, someone said it will only affect the driver if they leave the company. Not true! Driver retention is huge these days, especially ones who do lots of miles, on time and crash free. If a company like Swift loses, or scares them away, who are you gonna get to fill those seats? Even more rookies. It's a self fulfilling prophecy if you ask me.

If been wanting to try out a non-starter carrier for a while now, I guess when they install the camera they can also install a new driver from the training farm too.

are you honestly going to tell me you never stretched in your seat, late at night with no traffic. Reached behind the seat (grabing that jug) to get some juice. Drive with both hands on the wheel when not shifting. I could go on. This video states "we can monitor your bad subconscious behaviors and work with you on correcting them." What does that say to you?

Now we at least know part of the reason you're horrified of this concept. Any other dangerous habits that will remove your CDL?

Iv got an illustration for you. Say you had cameras monitoring every angle outside, and the truck is operating in a 100% safe manner. Now a car comes and hits the truck, and there is no way to avoid being hit by said car. Do you really think it helps the driver of the truck to have his in cab camera scrutinized by a safety guy that drives a desk all day?

In the video it states that this will be a "in cab coach"; well I'd like to think my 3 yr w/o any accidents earns me the right to work for someone who can have just an ounce of faith in me.

And another thing, someone said it will only affect the driver if they leave the company. Not true! Driver retention is huge these days, especially ones who do lots of miles, on time and crash free. If a company like Swift loses, or scares them away, who are you gonna get to fill those seats? Even more rookies. It's a self fulfilling prophecy if you ask me.

If been wanting to try out a non-starter carrier for a while now, I guess when they install the camera they can also install a new driver from the training farm too.

I was unaware businesses ran on 'faith.' I guess 10 years of labor isn't enough experience to know that. Sorry.

Time for me to stop posting, take a DPS test and text while taking the test. Faith that I'll pass crash free.

In the video it states that this will be a "in cab coach"; well I'd like to think my 3 yr w/o any accidents earns me the right to work for someone who can have just an ounce of faith in me.

A few points:

1) If you're so great at what you do then you have nothing to worry about. They'll probably use you as an example of the type of driver others should strive to be. You'll probably find videotapes of yourself in front of classrooms of new truck drivers so smile a lot and wear a clean shirt.

2) Just because you've done something for a few years without killing anyone doesn't mean you have no bad habits, nor does it mean you haven't taken any risks and gotten lucky, nor does it mean you won't ever let your guard down and do something dumb, nor does it mean you won't develop bad habits in the future. You don't get a "free pass for life" just because you've done something well for a short time. When you're doing a job that could kill an entire family with one moment of inattention nobody worth their salt running that business is going to assume you're perfect and leave you completely unattended.

3) You don't succeed in business making decisions based upon faith. You succeed by making decisions based upon knowing. Having faith means knowing without really knowing. In other words, you're hoping. Hope is not a strategy and faith is not knowing. If you want to survive in business, especially a risky one like trucking, you have to know your people are doing their jobs properly.

4) Many, many drivers with far more experience than you have done really dumb things causing catastrophic wrecks. A guy with 20 years safe driving experience at a nearby company was hit by a train recently and totaled everything. Another driver a few weeks later at the same company fell asleep and drove into a huge creek ruining 45,000 pounds of dog food. Being a safe driver in the past is nice but it's certainly no guarantee of a safe future.

I heard those cameras have problems working properly. Hint hint wink wink. Just kidding. But if we can get every body art the same time to sing that song. It always feels like somebody's waaaattcchhing meeeeeee it would make a good you tube video

I heard those cameras have problems working properly. Hint hint wink wink. Just kidding. But if we can get every body art the same time to sing that song. It always feels like somebody's waaaattcchhing meeeeeee it would make a good you tube video

That MJ.