Re: SMART/UTU misstep on one person crews?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 08-03-2014 - 09:33
Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> theconductor Wrote:
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> > Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> > > And just exactly how is this new "master
> > > conductor"
> > > supposed to get to a train that has problems
> > when
> > > there is no access to that train by road?
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> > The same way that the train got there. By
> rail...
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> Then why not keep him or her on the same train
> as the engineer? Is that "master conductor"
> supposed to follow the train in a hirailer --
> with no restroom -- for 12 hours? And isn't much
> better to have eyes on both sides of the cab to
> watch both sides of the train for problems
> and to see signals?
>
> This "race to the bottom" economically must stop.
> The UP is making record profits, and so is the
> BNSF --
> yet they want to cut the number of employees?
> Ridiculous and shameful!
He won't be following the train in a hi-railer, Margaret. He'll be called out as needed.
As far as having two people in the cab to watch both sides of the train and see signals, how's that been working out so far?