Originally published at: A Driver's Paper Logs Said He Was in One Place. A Roadside Camera Network Said Otherwise. Welcome to the New Era of Trucking Enforcement. - FreightWaves
(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) Recently, a driver pulled into an Arizona scale house learned that an officer could reconstruct his entire multi-state trip from license plate readers and roadside cameras, matching the real timeline against paper logs…
Yeah that sounds about right. The days of absolute freedom and solitude in trucking are long gone, has been for quite some time.
This was going to start happening regardless of drivers trying to cheat HOS. It’s written clearly in the article, insurance providers and brokers have their own reason for wanting this level of surveillance. Trucking companies are often times so bad and dishonest that they make outlaw drivers look like schoolboys.
Overall though, the level of surveillance in trucking is just another reason on a long list of why I’m getting out and transitioning to another career. If I’m gonna be watched this much, I might as well go into a career that actually pays well.
Besides, the industry is trying to get rid of drivers and go full automation anyway. The writing is on the wall, it’s time for a lot of drivers to find a real career that’s not a dead end job like this one.
So this means they can easily track the trucks violating the cabatage rules if they want to, right?