Tag: dashcam central

Business

Colin Young presents another ‘Crazy Pass’ from Colorado’s Loveland Pass

As Young tells it: “Another typical day going over Loveland Pass. I was pulling a fully loaded gasoline tanker down the pass when the Jeep decided they needed around me. I guess this is what we get when we allow video games to replace driver education.”

May 23, 2019

Voices

35-year trucker Joe Bartlette got a seatbelt ticket — until this video got it thrown out

There’s several ways to contest a ticket received at the roadside, chief and perhaps most effective among them just having video or other evidence that clearly refutes whatever the officer is claiming. … Cue the case of Decker Truck Line hauler Joe Bartlette of Grandville, Mich.

March 20, 2019

Voices

A four-wheeler is a four-wheeler? Glen Brannon presents ‘Indiana State Police driving skills’

Watch out! There’s a trooper coming out of the breakdown lane and he’s not too worried that your truck’s one lane over … Today’s Dashcam Central entry shows it pays to move over for police at the roadside, in more ways than one.

October 25, 2017

Voices

Joseph Stelzer and another hauler cut off in ‘Crazy California driver’

A little white-knuckle moment caught by Stelzer’s dashcam — yet another example of reckless behavior by those with whom truckers share the road.

April 11, 2017

Business

Michael Kimball presents ‘Pickup driver pulls out without looking.’

Says operator Kimball of this video: “This guy was talking to someone standing on the sidewalk and pulled right out in front of me, without looking. I stopped so close to him that I thought we might have traded paint.” What happened next? Find out here…

August 3, 2015

Business

Brad Kuhn presents ‘A 4-minute ride with a truck driver’

“How about a little credit for the accidents that we avoid?” asks Brad Kuhn with this collection of near misses. “I think law enforcement needs to crack down on aggressive driving around trucks.”

June 18, 2015

Business

‘Tampa T-Bone’ from SmartDrive’s Great Driving Insights series

If you’re running a road-facing dashcam of your own today, this video may just be further proof of what you already know — the power of on-highway video to exonerate a driver who’s doing things right in the event of an accident. The SmartDrive company typically works with fleets who wish to install both road- and driver-facing cameras. If you’re not running a road-facing dashcam of your own today, forward-facing cameras that are triggered to save clips by g-force events like accidents can be had for relatively minimal cost. Brad Willis, an independent Overdrive talked to in recent times, uses a sophisticated Blue Tiger model he picked up for under $150. As he puts it in our feature on the subject of on-truck video last year, having the camera mounted visibly in the windshield has produced benefits beyond event-recording on the road. It’s also a good theft-deterrent. Contrary to incidents that occurred during the time prior to having the camera there, “nothing has been touched [by thieves] on my truck since installing it.” Read more about it all via this link.

June 9, 2015

Business

‘High-speed trucking: Chicago rush hour’ from BigRigTravels’ Stephen Michaels

This video by BigRigTravels.com driver Stephen Michaels captures a run through Chicago at rush hour, at high speed (the video, not the truck).

June 5, 2015

Channel 19

Introducing: Overdrive’s Dashcam Central for driver video shares

“We hope this new section of Overdrive’s website will grow into a repository of reader-submitted rolling-video work (such as with a mounted GoPro camera) and dashcam clips that show compelling events.”

April 9, 2015