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See how their system works in a bus you will want one for your bus too. I have one in my bus and I won't leave home without it.
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I'm not sure Omnivue is worth over a thousand, it looks like a video game compilation in the overhead view. Good mirrors and a single rear view camera are enough, in my opinion. That truck that got played with would not have benefited from it. The car driver was probably getting even for being blocked by the truck when he was trying to get on the roadway. Unless there was a clear view of the license plate, there is little that could be done about it. Hitting the car intentionally to counter-get-even would be a bad blemish on a commercial license.
In that case I agree with you DE. The front view camera is all he needed to be able to play back the video to get a good read on the license plate which is hard to do when you are slamming on the binders. I didn't mean to imply that he needed a 360 degree Omniview camera system on his truck or even a bus. Omniview also has front and rear mounted cameras which is what meant to imply here.
They sell commercial quality cameras and some folks with buses even purchase a camera to put in their covered trailer when traveling as well. That way when you reach your destination you won't be really upset when you open the back door/ramp and find out that your car, Harley, or other toys have come loose and beat up everything else including the inside of the trailer for the past few hundred miles. Even their commercial quality cameras are less expensive then buffing the dents out of your toys.
As for his braking, you have a good point there, but I have been told by professional bus driver instructor that they teach their drivers to slow down and hit a car that stops abruptly rather than taking a chance in rolling a bus full of passengers as rolling a bus with all of those windows can be deadly. Likewise for this guy who may have hit his brakes so hard he careened out of control and crossed the Comedian Strip and killed several other drivers. In this case he had a ditch and fence to cross, so it probably wouldn't have happened, but as you saw in the video, the truck next to him almost bit the dust in this case.
Any "professional bus driver instructor" employed by me, that said that line of rubbish would be immediately unemployed.
Purposely hit another vehicle?
Ask your insurer about that one, and I wonder what the other cameras in the vicinity will capture...
happy coaching!
buswarrior
Is it just me or did that truck driver have a little bit of time to get on the brakes GENTLY AS that car swerved into his lane?
Then ... why did he lay on the brakes? Too much breaking too late? Or is this just me. Or perhaps gently presented otherwise ...
Why did the truck go sideways?
I think I could have avoided that bad situation if I were in my Old Crown. Again, just me. Maybe I expect too much of others.
Respectfully.
If we are to be honest, we can't really judge another drivers reaction to a situation just by viewing dashcam footage. I will say this though, the driver of the truck that went into the median deserves an award. Those are some mad skills.
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I have driven trucks, was always easy on the brakes. Most loads (Flatbed) that I hauled would move. Hauled concrete pipe for a couple of years. As large as 72' ID. 3 piece to a load.