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If you're asking me if it's possible for local management to activate a camera at their discretion on a driver, the answer is no. The cameras are only motion activated and only if the forces in the motion exceed a certain acceleration threshold. As to selective viewing, any event that trips the camera is stored and first reviewed by a third party, only those events that violate the law or company policy are sent to a driver coach to be viewed so that the coach can have a one on one sit down with the driver. The only people I've ever seen fired over camera events are those who are caught using a cell phone without a blue tooth. And in that case they have to be caught three times first before they're shown the door. I didn't exactly understand that nature of your questions so I hope you found this response useful. On a positive note, since we've had cameras, we had one driver from my terminal exonerated from a potential lawsuit from a known ambulance chaser who purposely caused an accident with him. One last thing as to the Fourth Amendment. It's my understanding that it as well as the rest of the Bill of Rights is about defining the relationship between the federal govt and the individual, what the federal govt may not do to, do for, take from, impose upon, or otherwise harm the individual. Outside of that, if we agree to work for XPO, we agree to be randomly viewed while operating company equipment. If we had dock cameras it would be the same way and I, in limited capacity when it comes to law do not see any conflicts between cameras at work and the Fourth Amendment.
Thanks for your response. I've heard complaints from my friends that the...motion-activated threshold can be overridden with the flick of a button. Not working there,....I have to go by what they are saying,...taking into account such things as ....potential personal agendas and such.
But,...the rumor I've heard is that,....anyone can be targeted by local management,..by their discretion. It is apparently not the stated application by upper management.
But,....again,.....any "oversight" from upper management may only appear if there's a....clear abuse, of any sort of...Rights a driver may have.
You are right about the Bill of Rights defining a relationship between the Federal Government and an individual. But,....since the Federal Government has established itself as the regulating agency for the trucking industry,...(and just about all other industries..)....
....they have kind of taken ownership over the legality of forced personal surveillance. There are Bills in Congress now,...to rein in Facebook and Instagram,...for personal information gathering.
The issue becomes a...proprietary one. Do you ...."own"...your image? Can you be disciplined by a videotape of your own image? That, right there....sounds like an infringement of your Fifth Amendment rights of Self-Incrimination......in My Opinion.....
Having cameras on the dock,....in a private workplace,.....seems to be a passive sort of surveillance. Everyone on the dock,....supervisors, workers, vendors, visitors,....are viewed,...without singling anyone individually...The deterrent is that.....Everyone is On Camera,.....so,....Act Accordingly.
In the cab of a truck,....the camera is deliberately aimed at a specific person.....And,...in control of the people who can,....hire and fire. I know that the...."selling point"...is that the camera will only "activate"...when a motion threshold is crossed....
We live in an App-driven, technological age,......I think we all know that,....those cameras,...with a minor software change,....can be selectively controlled....
....if they aren't already......
I think it is important for the trucking industry to.......establish when personal surveillance has gone too far, in the workplace....
I also think that,.....since we..(..us citizens..)...are being surveilled in pretty much every public place,....we,...have to establish WHO owns our personal image.
Is it the.....corporate entity who..."collects"...our image? Or, do we OWN our image,...and therefore decide who, where and when our image can be viewed.
Very soon, our personal image may be used for our ...personal identification. I would feel a lot more...secure...knowing my employer hasn't had me..."posing" for my picture throughout my work day.
And,...that I DON'T own that....picture.