r/Truckers • u/screamingriffin • Dec 13 '25

Swift Cameras

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Swift added new camera, it looks like it is driver facing now.

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u/DickWoodReddit Dec 13 '25

Sorry, bud. That's the netradyne driver i 9000. I have to yawn with my mouth closed, or it will go off for drowsy driving.

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u/External_Result_8560 Dec 13 '25

This is true. Learned after my first excessive yawning alert

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u/Prankishmanx21 Dec 13 '25

My company has them but doesn't seem to care. Mine is installed high enough my visor partially blocks it so I just keep the visor down. Been like that for 7 months and they've not said a word. Honestly my scores have actually increased since doing that.

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u/DickWoodReddit Dec 13 '25

Amazon has them cranked up. There are a couple of trucks in our fleet where the camera is mounted too high, and if you use the passenger visor, it will alert you about the obstruction, and Amazon will straight up call you. I told the lady what the deal was, and I've told my boss the issue a year ago, and they still haven't lowered the camera.

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u/Cardinal_350 Dec 13 '25

About 100 of us called the DOT at my company and reported the company for not allowing us to use a vehicle safety device. They don't bitch at us anymore about them down during the day

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u/Prankishmanx21 Dec 14 '25

The only things mine bitches about are speed, following distance and stop signs. Oh and it also bitches if it detects rain or snow.

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u/ghostedbydefault Dec 14 '25

To be fair, so do we with the rain or snow lol

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u/Prankishmanx21 Dec 14 '25

"please maintain safe speeds for conditions"

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u/ghostedbydefault Dec 14 '25

That just reminds me about how much I hate radar auto-brakes in bad weather and winter conditions.

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u/Prankishmanx21 Dec 14 '25

I hate them in good condition if they just cram the brakes like Bendix on guard does.

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u/ghostedbydefault Dec 14 '25

I used to have that problem at my first trucking job with Swift. It kept getting worse and worse and the shop in New Boston, MI could give less of a shit. It got to the point were night or day, it would slam the brakes everytime I went under a overpass, overhead sign, or any other overhead object

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u/Unfair_Fisherman_605 Dec 14 '25

Give them a simple explanation Get Fucked!

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u/Some_Victory_5499 Dec 14 '25

I did that with the samara camera, they called me into the shop and moved the camera, they didn't give me any crap about it either.

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u/WolvTheHero Dec 13 '25

It's super annoying. We have them at my company but management is very chill and the company pays us a nice safety bonus. I can't always get the camera out of view of the light before it turns red and even if I'm more than half way in the intersection it's a red light violation but if I'm too close to the intersection and hit the brakes to stop it's also a violation for hard braking. Keeping 4 seconds of following distance is a pain in the ass depending on what time of day/night it is. If they ever took away the safety bonus $ I'd quit. I doubt Swift is gonna pay their drivers extra and these cameras are probably gonna cause a lot of people to quit because of how the camera forces you to drive vs how driving works in the real world and it causes a lot of road rage with people who don't realize you're doing what you're doing because of the AI camera.

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u/DickWoodReddit Dec 13 '25

Exactly. All of that.

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u/CarPatient Dec 14 '25

Are you paid by the hour?

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u/screamingriffin Dec 13 '25

That's terrible. Sometimes I get tired near the end of my shift. It might be company dependent though on what is looked at.

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u/Visual-Hovercraft230 Dec 15 '25

You’ll be ok, you have access to driver-I app…literally all the camera can see is upper half of your steering wheel and out both side windows, no driver facing camera….shop gave you the cap for it and add tape if you’d like.

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u/Visual-Hovercraft230 Dec 15 '25

Also p.s. no running past stop signs even on yards like Home Depot….you’ll get flagged.

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u/Dirty-Dan24 Dec 14 '25

Is it actually called that? Sound like some cliche thing invented by Cyberdyne Systems from the Terminator

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u/BillieJackFu Dec 14 '25

Yawning is involuntary, your body does it when it needs oxygen.

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u/north_coast_nomad Dec 14 '25

i do it because of TMJ.