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Re: SMART/UTU misstep on one person crews?
Author: theconductor
Date: 08-02-2014 - 23:45
Agent 99 Wrote:
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> Will railroads be so short sighted as to put only
> one person on a train, jamb as many cars on it as
> they *think* they can and then send it out into
> the wild blue yonder and expect nothing to go
> wrong? How many massive system tie ups will it
> take to justify having a second person onboard?
> What about the pending FRA rulemaking on crew
> size? And again, how is it "safer" to have two
> people onboard an oil train and not a coal train?
>
> 99 out
The railroads are not shortsighted about this. They know exactly the cost and risk. The reality is that massive tie ups due to equipment failure (that can be fixed by a conductor) are very rare. The RR's know that.
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> Will railroads be so short sighted as to put only
> one person on a train, jamb as many cars on it as
> they *think* they can and then send it out into
> the wild blue yonder and expect nothing to go
> wrong? How many massive system tie ups will it
> take to justify having a second person onboard?
> What about the pending FRA rulemaking on crew
> size? And again, how is it "safer" to have two
> people onboard an oil train and not a coal train?
>
> 99 out
The railroads are not shortsighted about this. They know exactly the cost and risk. The reality is that massive tie ups due to equipment failure (that can be fixed by a conductor) are very rare. The RR's know that.
