video recorders for installation on the inside or outside of a vehicle or trailer to record audio, video and/or other data; video recorders used to perform at least one among viewing, recording and playing back activity occurring on a vehicle, or around or along one or multiple sides of the vehicle; digital video recorders used to view, record and/or play back activity occurring on and/or around a vehicle; cameras for installation on the inside or outside of a vehicle or trailer to record video, audio and/or other data; video cameras used to perform at least one among viewing, recording and playing back activity occurring on and/or around a vehicle or trailer; video cameras, video monitors and software useful for at least one among video surveillance data acquisition, digitization, compression, encryption, labeling, transmission and reception; cameras for recording activity occurring on, or around or along the outside of, a vehicle or trailer; cameras for viewing any desired area, or view, on the outside of a vehicle; vehicle side-viewing cameras; vehicle rear-viewing cameras; vehicle underside viewing cameras; surveillance cameras; [ audio recorders; ] audio tape recorders; a controller for enabling a video camera to zoom in and out and to magnify a certain image; software for use in authenticating recorded, transmitted, and reproduced sounds, images and/or other data; software for use in viewing video and/or data recorded on a video recorder; software for encrypting, decrypting and/or conscripting recorded, transmitted, or reproduced sounds, images and/or other data; software for use in reconfiguring digital video recorders; software for integrating at least two among text, audio, graphics, still images and moving pictures for display on a monitor, screen, computer, hand held device or other device; software for wireless transmission of video, audio and/or other data from one or more audio and/or video recorder located on a vehicle to another location; antennas useful for wireless transmission of video, audio and/or other data from one or more audio and/or video recorder located on a vehicle to another location; wireless modems, network cards, and wireless ethernet bridges useful for wireless transmission of video, audio and/or other data from one or more audio and/or video recorder located on a vehicle to another location; software for receiving, storing, archiving, managing, retrieving and/or distributing video, audio and/or other data provided from mobile surveillance equipment; software for receiving, storing, archiving, managing, retrieving and/or distributing video, audio and/or other data provided from one or more audio and/or video recorder located on a vehicle