What are your opinions on companies and owner operators installing cameras in your turcks?

 

camera watching the road? Fine I guess.

camera watching me? Go to Russia or something. I dont need that.

 

We talking about webcams in trucks or companies using cameras in trucks for surveillence monitoring?

I'm all for a good webcast. I would've hosted one myself if only I hadn't selected Cingular as my wireless internet provider, because they have a firewall on their side of the connection that blocks webcasting. Verizon and Sprint don't, and it's fun to keep tabs on other drivers' whereabouts.

As for surveillence, a while ago I heard a little rumor that JB Hunt wanted to put a camera on all their trucks facing forward from the dash at the road and another in the sleeper. :shock:

 

I've thought about installing my own just so I can show people how f-ing crazy 4 wheelers drive around trucks. Good deal for getting you out of trouble if it shows you were just cut off by a 4 wheeler in that wreck you just had. Can also tattle on you if your in a wreck and you had plenty of time to take evasive action and did not.

 

i wouldnt mind a camera in my truck. as long as it is i who determines when it's on & where it's pointed. the stuff that 4-wheelers do in my view.... well ya'll know.. i ain gotta say... :lol:

 

JB and others may put these in trucks facing forward but I don't they would put one in the sleeper. I can see the lawsuits rolling in if they put the in the sleeper.

I really doubt any of this will come to pass. The cost for large companies would be to high. About the only way large companies could afford something like this would be to have their own satellite.

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USXpress has them on the right fender as a replacement for the fender mirror. Other than something like that, I can't see companies putting them into the truck for the company to monitor something going on. The cost involved in transmitting streaming video would be enormous, to say the least.

Also, as the previous poster stated, a camera in the sleeper is just an open door for a civil rights lawsuit. Myself, if there was a camera in the sleeper, I'd have to make damn sure that whoever was monitoring it would have something rather interesting to see.

 

the qualcomm is really expensive to use, and to broadcast video via sattalite is way way way to expensive to be pratical.. to do it over cell towers would mean they install tens of thousands more across the usa, so I say your pipe dream here well just call myth busters , I say good luck, maybe in 50 years when technology catches up it mightt happen but not in my lifetime..

 

Yea, like I said, just a silly rumor.

There's maybe 5 or 6 different webcasts from truck drivers on camstreams.com. To my knowledge they all have their cameras firing forward only, haha.

 

I did just this several years ago, and I had a deal with the local high school to come in periodically and show my videos (with my accompanying irreverent commentary) to the Drivers Ed classes.