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News roundup, Dec. 26: 75-truck fleet closed doors ahead of Christmas, new connected Dashcam launched, load-tracking proliferation and preference explored

Ohio-based 75-truck fleet GDS Express closed shop last week. NexTraq launches new forward-facing in-cab HD video camera system, in-cab views optional. And: A tracking provider asks, What’s your preferred tracking method, when it comes to technology.

December 26, 2019

Voices

Colin Young presents ‘Because some of us are too good to wait’

Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedrive’s “Dashcam Central” repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the “road was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently it’s OK to pass on the shoulder if you’re behind an ambulance.”

April 23, 2019

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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

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An eight-hour tour through Oregon in five minutes with Alan Sheain Jr.

It’s not all truck theft, near-misses with distracted four-wheelers and other catastrophic events in Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted dashcam vids. This one chronicles an eight-hour haul through big evergreen forests in Oregon in five minutes’ worth of time-lapse photography out the picture window of Alan Sheain Jr.’s windshield.

January 14, 2019

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Truck thief! Caught on dual-view dashcam

After installing dual-view cameras in their trucks, reps of the Madison, Ala., location of the Danella construction company were greeted early one morning with what was clearly a break-in at the yard — the thief, soon caught, was recorded in these videos driving away, among other footage, a gold mine for police.

November 30, 2018

Business

‘Always-on’ smart-cam system hits milestone

Netradyne’s Driveri system reached 100M minutes of analyzed driving data, and hopes such data will cement its “crucial contributor for next-generation autonomous vehicles,” the company says, as it turns three years old.

October 29, 2018

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Howard Salmon presents ‘Unsecured load takes flight’

As Salmon was starting to speed up after rolling through a work zone, unsecured cargo from a pickup in front of him took flight. Check it out on Overdrive.

September 14, 2018

Business

KeepTruckin offers integrated road-cam

Unlike other camera products, it offers a quick and easy install process at an affordable price and is "industrial grade" for life beyond typical dashcams.

June 7, 2018

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James Hewett presents ‘Near-miss in Phoenix’

Think (and look) twice before turning on red after watching trucker James Hewett's nearly disastrous encounter with a fellow truck driver in Arizona.

May 21, 2018

Overdrive Extra

A potential role for cameras and wearables in regulating drowsy driving

Until very recently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has largely ignored fatigue monitoring technology, and therefore any potential it has for a significant revision of the hours of service. Instead, regulators for decades have tinkered with the hours of service as if it were a magic template to solve the fatigue problem for every […]

November 21, 2017

Business

Guardian camera system/Geotab integration

The Guardian system by Seeing Machines, which combines road- and driver-facing cameras with processing power to detect signs of fatigue and/or distraction, is now available as an add-in on telematics/ELD provider Geotab’s marketplace for third-party tools.

October 17, 2017

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POLL: The hours of service rule’s future — tied to fatigue monitoring tech?

With some watchers predicting a technology-heavy future for hours of service limits, what’s your thoughts today on the possibility of fatigue-monitoring technology brought to bear in the regs?

October 10, 2017