paranoid much? Cameras on both sides front and back of tractor.
Posted Feb 13, 2023, 8:37 PM UTC
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Pretty sure he’s been burned once before and this is his “never again” solution. Pretty cheap piece of mind for a third witness that is incapable of lying
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True i like the idea of cameras, not a driver, but i know and respect that a truck is home to a driver, and i have cameras in and around my home. So it makes sense a driver would aswell, not to mention all the crazy on the road. But 4 cameras on the mirror does seem a bit much. Lol, but idk, im sure they have there purpose.
I wonder if there insurance was like you get a discount for every camera you have installed haha 😄.
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Or he just runs a youtube channel 🤣
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Definitely necessary to have dash cams. Two times that I have been hit, the driver lied. If it weren’t for my dash cam and the witnesses who stopped, who knows what would have happened. I only have the forward facing dash cam, but I’ll eventually get the side mirror ones to capture the sides. One time I was hit on my trailer tire by a four-wheeler who slipped on ice while trying to pass me. Fortunately he did not lie, and well there was a witness who stopped. In my experience, about half of the accidents I’ve been involved in, the driver lied.
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Sounds like you’re involved in a lot of accidents
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It sounds like most are not his fault though.
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I’ve been driving for pretty much 10 years, so accidents are to be expected. From what I remember, I have only had 2 accidents on public roads and 5 accidents on private properties. So that’s a total of 7. Out of the 7 accidents, two were my fault where I bumped into a boulder while parking (damaging my own truck) and the other I unknowingly moved a parking concrete barrier that happen to hit someone else’s trailer, but this one was never reported. I gave the owner operator some $200 and moved on. The two accidents on public roads were four-wheelers losing control of their vehicle and colliding into me. The other 3 accidents were drivers trying to park or back into a dock and hitting me.
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Only takes one for an insurance company to completely screw your world.
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Yeah, but 8 cameras per side? Plus there is at least 1 inside on the windshield. That’s 17 cameras!
At what point is it too many?
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I think you missed a few... 1 on hood mirror, 4 on driver's mirror, 4 on the top, and it looks like there is one under the drivers door. So 10 per side if we can assume symmetry!
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We can!
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I agree that’s an overkill, but who can blame a driver who’s been wronged in an accident case all because it was his word against a four-wheeler’s and there were no witnesses or cameras.
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I can’t blame a driver for 3 cameras. One facing forward, one facing backwards on each front fender to cover the blind spots.
I mean seriously. What will you see in cameras 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 that you wouldn’t catch in 1, 2, or 3.
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Drivers and women lie at the same rate lol
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This is getting down voted to oblivion, but I've had drivers lie directly to my face about shit they broke on their truck. I don't care dude I have to fix it anyway, why lie about how it happened ?
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Actually really smart. Ain’t nobody hitting him and getting away without a shot of their plate.
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Paranoid or living in reality?
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There’s nothing wrong with a healthy level of paranoia.
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That’s what it’s come to just to protect yourself from financial ruin because of an insurance scam
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This man has been hurt before.
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Who hurt youuu
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Everyone is paranoid until something happens, then they’re well prepared.
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That’s not paranoid. It’s smart
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Dispatch: Sir on this high value load you're not allowed to stop unless you're in a secured lot
This guy: anywhere I pop my brakes is a secured lot
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When someone pulls the 5th wheel release on you at a truck stop. You’ll understand why this is needed. Also it protects you from idiots. People love to bully truckers.
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When parking at a truck stop, set trailer brakes, pull forward and put tension on the pin and jaws, set tractor brakes. Good luck pulling my pin while I sleep…
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I don’t blame the driver, too many just hit trucks/trailers and take off.
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The company I'm with now my first day with them last month and a dude in a rv hit and folded in my passenger mirror and hauled ass lol
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Shit, I don't blame him. Assholes in cars just do whatever they want. Then when they fuck around enough to find out they're gonna try to wear a halo and cry to the cop about the maniac truck driver who caused this and put it all on you. Possibly ruining your livelihood so they can escape accountability for their actions.
Stupid ass cops will probably take their side unless you have undeniably good evidence like a video, in hand, to protect yourself. The truck driver is always presumed guilty until proven innocent. Don't blame him in the least.
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Hey now, please do not forget about the arsehole truck drivers out there. For instance in the lane next to the fast lane taking a right hand exit across 4 lanes of traffic about the start of rush hour. Or the guy who when traffic was stopped on a freeway, admitted he was not paying attention who hit a pick up truck hard enough to push the frame, drive train etc forward 4 inches.
I have a lot of respect for most truckers I flash my lights to let you know it's ok to move lanes, i move over when i can to let you enter the highway, i try to make sure you cans ee me in your mirror and rarely do I get a thank you. I see a LOT of stupid on the road and just plain idiocy. Both in trucks and passenger vehicles.
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I don't trust anyone... no matter the number of wheels. Just the way it is these days.
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$10 says it was really installed by his wife worried about lot lizards… 😝😝
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They probably have a joint Facebook account😂
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I bought a 16 camera (2x 8 cam) system last winter that I was planning to install on my cab and trailer to have 360 degree video coverage. Only reason I haven't yet is due to the economy and other stuff nearly forcing me to sell my trailer last year.
Still not 100% certain about things
I already have 5 cameras, forward and reverse on both side mirrors plus my garmin gps cam.
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I live in Denver and this is still not enough
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I’m in Lakewood. Can concur.
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Go on...
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You need a paid undercover swat team to make sure your converter doesn’t get stolen let alone your rig tampered with. Full 360 and underbody camera WITH knowledge that the surrounding area has cameras facing your direction 😤 add motion detecting hunting cameras around the perimeter for further protection 👌
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I met that guy. About 5 months ago. Actually was a really cool guy! Conversation with him, cameras are a hobby thing of his. Not necessarily a paranoia thing. He just likes to record from the road but wasn't sure what to do with all his video recordings. Told him to turn his hobby into a YT channel or something of the likes.
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Glad you could explain it
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Huh.
It's almost as if what another person does with their own property is none of your fucking business.
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Don't forget to add "... and whatever another person does to this driver's property is HIS business."
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Actually its a great idea; cuts out the BS shows exactly whats going on.
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Dude is a rolling secured lot lol
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If they run while in motion I would LOVE those! Too many retards in cars doing STUPID shit around my tractor, and these can even get sideswipe damage while parked at a truck stop…if I was O/O I’d have cameras all over my truck too…
Exactly! Money well spent.
Smartest thing he did! Screw driver facing cameras… if only he used the smaller tractor cameras instead of the cheaper home/office cameras…they are ugly but I guess the benefits outweigh the “looks.”
I think the big ones are more to deter shenanigans
Yep. Cameras aren’t forcefields. If your cameras are innocuous they’ll catch someone but the more noticeable cameras will discourage someone from trying.
I always thought some lights with a recording, “You Are Being Live-Streamed to 911 At This Time!” might make people leave even if it was complete b.s.
Yeah, they’re probably just for show, but effective either way
I saw a setup like this on a old school Century Class.....old Pumpkin Truck...it was clean Texas bumper chrome everywhere.....I am definitely going to look into this because I was rear ended and side swiped last week...I saw none of it....cameras would have been nice....
They make much better systems for 360 driving devices. Those are basically home security cameras. He could have one device that replaces all three of those and it'd be half the size of a single one
I think he wants you to see them. I bet he’s got that system, too, these are probably just on magnetic bases, puts ‘em on when he’s parked.
I pray those are not on magnetic bases. Those types of cameras aren't meant for this kind of use.
Sorry, meant that they were fake, he’s got a real pro system one for reals. Who would want to listen to these at 75mph? And O’O’s count pennies, these look like a quarter mile per gallon, easy haha
That white one under the mirror mount is real, though, I hope. I want one!