Safety

Posted by Longway23544@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 12 comments

4 deers ran across i39 and I slammed my brakes to avoid hitting them but my camera went off as a hard braking event do you think safety will give me a call? Thanks

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If it was a legit "brake to avoid an animal" situation, most safety folks just pull the clip and move on. Usually they're looking for following distance, distraction, or a pattern of hard events, not a one-off where you clearly avoided a hit. If they call, it's normally just a quick "what happened" and they document it. Only time I've seen it turn into a bigger deal is when the video shows tailgating or they see a bunch of hard brakes in a short span. I'd rather explain one hard brake than explain a deer through the radiator or a ditch.

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Correct_Writer_3410@reddit

No, hard brakes are normal in a lot of situations. I've set off cameras many times stopping smoothly for yellow lights on 65mph+ roads and other time truly panic stopped because some dumbass stopped on the interstate a lane over from a crash to rubberneck. I didn't swerve or anything just managed to stop without hitting anyone. Never got called. If it's driver facing it would likely only be an issue if the hard brake is because you were distracted by a phone/anything else. Or with any camera if you were following too close or just took several seconds to react, indicating inattention, or some other issue like not being in your lane/having to hard brake to avoid a collision you would have caused by not yielding the right of way correctly.

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20milliondollarapi@reddit

Naw, I have had it go off a handful of times. Even rather normal braking one time. They would just watch and either not even tell me or ask for more context.

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Pitiful-MobileGamer@reddit

Safety is going to see the event, if it's a camera like Samsara it's going to record the 15 seconds before, the hard event and then 10 or 15 seconds afterwards. The fact that you're not getting a tow, nor getting a front end repair means you did job. A good safety coordinator will even remove that event from your Samsara score, I know I did when I was on light duty and having to watch hours of that stuff everyday. Last Summer, I got a hard event when a gravel hauler blew a tire that took out the fender on the trailer, that fender landed in traffic ahead of me. I was boxed in on both sides so I boat anchored and got it stopped before I ran over it. Safely got around it afterwards, didn't think anything of it cuz I know the camera. Got a call from the boss a few hours later saying nice save.