I actually like dash cams, I tolerate the constant GPS tracking but I've made it clear to my company that driver facing cameras are my line in the sand. The day they install them is the day I turn in my truck.

I hadn’t.   Don’t know the first thing about it, so…


What’s the scoop?

I work local. You can work what we call roll and rest. Basically they go out for the week, spending their nights in motels.  For local work you will most likely start on nights with days off being weekdays.

I haul liquid nitrogen and Oxygen.  Our customers are hospitals,  manufacturers and water plants mostly.  Most of my days consist of either one delivery with about a 400 mile round trip or a couple of short deliveries with one reload.   It's easy, clean work and our company treats us very well. We aren't expected to drive in dangerous conditions, make deliveries to dangerous locations or drive dangerous equipment.  

Airgas, Air Products and Linde are a few of the carriers.

Interesting.  Thanks for the info.  

The driver facing camera would be tough to wrap my mind around, but if the money is where I need to be *and* I can be home daily?   Might be worth considering.

I don't do over the road so I didn't know how to calculate properly.
I was calculating the mileage  and 8 hours at $33 plus 4 hours overtime.

To be quite honest that's pretty shit pay
I would fucking laugh in your face if you asked me to do that..at night in the snow.

That's why you can't hire anybody and can't keep them. You have to make it way more attractive,
Then the regular trucking job.

I can make that everyday driving a ready mix truck.

I can't disagree with this..I'd want $50 an hour (minimum) and a guaranteed $5 raise every 6 months (consider it proper motivation to keep your drivers from quitting)
Im gunna need to see "light at the end of that tunnel"-- (every paycheck) --for that much BS..

I must be out of the loop. Last I heard, cement drivers around here made about $25  an hour. Now I'm curious and I'll have to check that out.

Luckily for me, winter is typically around 3ish months a year. The rest of the year is easier money.

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to pay more to keep my fellow drivers. It's not an easy job, and we need to be compensated appropriately. We also need way more vacation time. What we (and other companies) get is insulting.

Sad part is I have friends at other LTL companies that make less than I do for similar work. My employer is the highest paid in the area.

While I don't hate the work, after a few years of doing this shit, I'm starting to wonder what else is out there. Hard to match the money though.

Well I live in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The cost of living here isn't high however the demand for drivers is...
Last I heard Lowe's delivery drivers make $25 an hour...

If you want to find out how much other guys get paid go on to indeed and look around At the job offers out there.

Go look for jobs in my area and you'll see not only high rates. You will  also see signing bonuses and other perks.

Making 110,000 per year, working five nights a week, and being home daily doesn’t sound bad to me, chains or no chains.

My dash cams are both front and driver facing. However they’re not the spy on the driver type. They only activate in an emergency or if the driver hits the panic button.  The panic button saves the previous 30 seconds before the button press and 30 seconds after.

Was something I was very adamant about when I was dash cam shopping for my fleet. I did not want my dispatchers to be able to spy on the driver.

From there, the incident footage is uploaded, AI reviewed, then flagged for incident.  We only look at stuff that has an impact happen.  Unless the driver tells my safety manager about an incident and wants to watch it, etc.  Only the admin (me) and the safety manager can access the video now.  

We had an issue early on because permissions weren’t right. And that dispatcher uh.. got to meet the not so nice side of me.  

So far, in the ~20 months we have had dash cams, we have had 3 hit and runs that were resolved in our favor because of them.  Only 1 driver was dismissed - but would have been with or without a dash cam. Because a 13’6” trailer doesn’t fit in a 12” bridge.  And he downshifted while going under it.. broke the trailer right in half, along with tearing the top off.

Good to hear, unfortunately not all bosses are like you. I have had problems with snooping, micromanaging dispatchers that just can't resist using the tools to spy on the drivers.

Dash cams have been a net positive for our company and I'm definitely a fan of those.

Yeah. Snooping is met with an iron fist with me. I know how I want to be treated. And I treat others the same if not better.  (The whole golden rule thing.)

While I didn’t fire him (I could have) - he has all computer permissions removed.  And had to verbally apologize to all the drivers he snooped on, in front of me. He also got docked his bonus.

I used to work for a company and one of our terminals installed cameras in their trucks as part of a pilot program.  Forward-facing and "no audio".

They called a driver in not long after the roll-out and a manager told him he wasn't happy with how the driver was bad-mouthing the company during a long phone call with his wife.

The driver justifiably went ballistic and had to be escorted off the property.  The other five drivers packed their shit and walked out in solidarity.

The manager was relocated up to Michigan or some shit, the cameras were removed, and the drivers came back to work.