re: Anybody drive a truck or work vehicle with camera inside watching you?

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I dont know your business, and its easier said than done, but hire better employees.

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No matter how good the employee is, screw ups or bad decisions are going to happen at scale. If the pool you're hiring from is already lower on the socioeconomic spectrum the likelihood is dramatically higher. I used to have to manage a bunch of call center employees making $12.50 an hour and there were maybe two I trusted implicitly, but even they were capable of making mistakes. The rest were just a fricking terror.

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I doubt you'd want a camera in your office for 8 hours a day, treat your employees with the same level of respect.

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Counterpoint: I’ve never seen someone kill a family because they were texting while rolling around in their office chair.

Drive with a finger in your nose.

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I dont know your business, and its easier said than done, but hire better employees. That incident is as much your fault as it is his. Great employees don't need or want nanny cams. Shows a lack of trust and respect on your part.

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My sweet innocent summer child...

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Own a company with these in the truck. Paid for itself with reduced liability when it videoed Mr. Worker drinking a beer while driving my truck. Don't like what owner does, quit and start your own business.

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They're good for getting rid of shite heads and producing some generally funny videos. I have one of a guy driving like a douche and his fire extinguisher breaks free in the backseat and goes off.

As far as liability, i consider it a wash. For everything it exonerates you on you have hard evidence of an employee doing something legitimately stupid on others and you're fault is proven. Also, if you have a driver with a poor driving history and didn't do anything about it, it opens you up to additional liability via negligence.

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When corporations impose a nanny state too many of you just accept it

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You can blame personal injury attorneys for this one. Commercial vehicles get absolutely arse fricked in court for minor fender benders. These programs are expensive and only money out because they only need to prevent a couple claims from hitting the max to pay for themselves.

The railroads installed them in all of the locomotives. Inward and outward facing cams. Plus GPS and real-time reporting of all systems. One of the reasons I got out. No point in putting us through all of the training when some jackass 1000 miles away is calling you on the radio to notify you of some procedural error you may or may not have made.

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But to have a camera facing the driver and recording audio seldom would provide more context and evidence that would benefit the company.

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There's a lot more going on than that. Most of these have accelerometers and some are hooked into the OBD to measure braking, throttle position, etc. The driver facing camera catches a lot more than just the driver. They can see out the drivers side window, and in a lot of trucks out the back in case you're rear ended. Additionally, most of the decent ones are using AI to identify drivers without seatbelts, using their phone, etc. to flag any unsafe drivers.

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Employers are using them to watch their employees.

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If anyone has time to pull and watch these videos there's a bigger problem. I'm sure it does happen but every fleet i know that uses them only downloads and reviews for accidents or egregious behavior flags.

There may be some insurance companies that give significant discounts for the cams. As a La. based website, there should be plenty who would appreciate that cost savings!