It seems that cameras are everywhere nowadays: cell phone cameras, security cameras, and now dash cameras. In this age of the truck driver is always guilty mentality, many truck drivers are now turning to dash cameras. Even if you’re not involved in an accident, dash camera footage could help you avoid trouble in other ways, as well.

For example, how many times have you as a truck driver been flipped off by a driver, angered a driver, or received a complaint by a frustrated driver over something you had no control over?

We recently heard from a driver who said a motorist called his company and complained about his driving. She said the driver refused to get over when she was trying to merge into traffic.

The driver said he couldn’t get over for the driver, because traffic was too thick. The driver said he is now investing in a dash camera that also uses his mirrors.

In August, truck driver Debra Miller’s dash cam footage helped her get out of two traffic citations. The video below shows Miller attempting to make a left turn, when a car suddenly comes around her and hits the side of Miller’s truck.

Miller says if it had not been for her dash cam footage, she doubts troopers would have believed that the accident was not her fault.

The second citation, Miller feels her dash cam footage helped her avoid, involved a school bus. Miller was accused of passing a school bus with its flashing lights on, but when Miller replayed the footage, it proved that the bus’s lights were not on and Miller had not done anything wrong.