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video witnesses
er is cutting off a driver,
Berry says. "Maybe a rude
gesture is involved, and
'they could have called in
on me, so I just hit that
clip,' " he notes, para-
phrasing a typical driver
comment.
Serial problems at
certain customers' docks,
too, have been called
out by drivers using the
manual trigger, provid-
ing the back-office staff
time-stamped documen-
tary evidence of on-time
arrival to an unprepared
loading location.
Privacy: 'Honoring the
bargain' with drivers
Encroachments on the mea-
sure of freedom traditionally
offered by the business of
truck driving are chief among
some drivers' objections to
systems such as those offered
by DriveCam and Smart-
Drive.
Field says acceptance of the
systems is contingent primarily
on how well the fleet "explains
the use of the cameras."
Lytx representative Del
Lisk notes that fleets that have
success making the tool an
effective one for collaborative
ongoing driving education
will work with Lytx to "honor
our bargain" with drivers "to
be minimally invasive," given
the cameras' activation only
during triggered events.
Says Buchanan, "The driv-
ers need to know that these
cameras can't be triggered
from the [fleet] headquarters.
I can't trigger it from an out-
side-looking-in perspective."
But it's also true that be-
haviors captured incidentally
when the cameras are trig-
gered by a safety-related event
come under the microscope at
some fleets. Such clips might
show a driver smoking while
driving a company truck for
a fleet with a no-smoking
policy, such as that in place
in the United Natural Foods
Inc. fleet. UNFI Regional
Fleet Safety Manager Deb
Dancause says that, with the
SmartDrive system, "We are
able to pick what we want to
see" in working with Smart-
Drive staff, to "focus on the
items important to us." That
includes drivers seen smoking.
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