Found a guy on youtube has external cams on his lorry.
Just one more non essential expense, where’s it all going to stop, micro chips implanted into the driver? It’s bad enough with gps tracking installed, though thats easily dealt with 
Tiger.
From what i can gather GBA services have spy cams fitted in cabs,as they seem to know who is driving and when,(multi maned vehicle) without the new digi tacho fitted,what ever they are using must be linked to the tracking system fitted to the trucks,
why would your boss want to watch you? surely that could be an invasion of your privacy?
I’m a london bus driver, the double decker I drive has 14 cameras including 1 on the driver.
I ran a guy over a few months back, he was on his phone and walked straight out in front of me.
The camera showed that I was driving correctley.
I like having cameras on the bus, more of a help than a hinderance.
But although they can be of use if they are set to record what is going on outside the vehicle, in a bus or truck where it’s shift work is one thing but when you have two drivers who have to live in that truck for sometimes weeks at a time,there should not be a covert camera installed to watch the inside of the cab, that is my point,would you want your boss or who ever else to watch you in your home?
Had them in my last job where they look out onto road and also onto driver, these are placed in top left of windscreen. When they go off, which they did extremely often then they flash a red light which you then look at, taking your eyes off the road. As an earlier post say’s the camera’s record the 20 previous seconds and then another 20 seconds after being activated. These were Large camera units and very intrusive on the driver. In my opinion I found they were very distracting for me as a driver. Also you wonder if you did anything wrong before hand and sit like an idiot as you know you’re being filmed while it is flashing.
Saying that, in my new job (since December) we have outward facing camera’s which are much smaller and are placed at the bottom of the windscreen. They also have lights on but my new employer isn’t as ■■■■ as my last and haven’t complained about us covering the lights with electrical tape.
I just watched a couple of the video replays and think these may be a good idea, they only record a 30 second clip using sensors by the look of it hardly time to have a proper ■■■■
Like a tachograph and spies in the cab, they may be able to help a driver, especially in the case of the red light video
If our TM’s and office watch any of these videos do they wonder how we survive a day without accident. They must wonder how we have so few accidents!!.
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this system records all the time the ignition is on and for 30 seconds only once the ignition is off. its stored on a hard drive in the cab and records 24 hours worth and then overwrites itself. data is only downloaded if involve in an incident/ accident.
only last week we we informed that as the price of this equipment has dropped to under £500 per vehicle it will be fitted to every truck in the fleet.
.personally it dont bother me at all, but i would not drive if it recorded inside the cab (especially whilst doing nights out in it.)
i think the benefits of this system is great in this day and age and the only disadvantage is that if you had an at fault accident then it could be used against you.
also just to add. this system also displays on the recorded video your speed, wether your lights were on or of, wether you were braking and indicating etc.
No doubt we will be getting them aswell then…All for it, especially in London and any motorway slip road…
I wouldnt mind having a camera in my cab, it would give me somewhere to put me butty bag. Also could I charge the company repeat fees and if im going to be on camera would I need an equity card.
Seriously this has got to be an invasion of privacy.
these spy cameras that i mention must be linked to the real time satellite tracking device’s fitted in the vehicles as in the office they have a big wide screen monitor/tv which displays where all the fleet is,realtime, along with who is driving which vehicle at any given time, as non of the trucks are new no digi tacho’s to hook it up to to get details from driver card ect, unless there is another method of remotely relaying this driver at the wheel info i would say there has to be a camera fitted
we have cameras in all our cabs, in top left of windscreen one facing out the other into the cab… we were told these were being fitted to lower insurance and for driver protection in an incident… we have an individual number that gets inputed on a keypad before the start of shift… the camera will activate in harsh breaking, cornering or hitting bumps in the road ect… the handy thing is it as an emergency button thingy so you can record something if you have a problem, one of our guys used it as a customer was being a ■■■■■ as we all know the customer is always right, well this showed the customer was wrong…
but that is the only time i think the camera as been in the drivers favour though… we get called in if camera activates, if your doing something wrong ok seatbelts maybe but at times it goes off for the least little thing and its used against you! i guess its down to your TM in how they use any recorded incidents… but i know of 4 accidents that the camera did,nt pick up any footage…
the camera downloads when we get back to the yard and we drive past a sensor on the gate, downloaded to a company that checks all recorded incidents and then sends back any that need to be viewed by TM…
dowahdiddyman:
I wouldnt mind having a camera in my cab, it would give me somewhere to put me butty bag. Also could I charge the company repeat fees and if im going to be on camera would I need an equity card.
Seriously this has got to be an invasion of privacy.
There are only two groups of people that can claim invasion of privacy. Prisoners when they are two to a cell and celebrities that want to sell the details of their private lives. The rest of us have no such rights.