They cancelled the depot assigned yard taxi transport vans on 11/10/19 for the Tucumcari sub..
Had a crew wait over 1 hour for the road driver taxi to arrive to take the train crew to East end of the rr yard , so they could get on the train and go. We now have lots of train crew delays. Anybody know where else they stopped having a yard taxi driver ready to go 24/7 ? The plan was for local managers to drive the crews around in the yard. The managers are gone a lot , so nobody to drive for the crews.
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I would like to see a total on figure on the amount of overtime and tow in incurred as a result of slashing the yard vans.
It seems that someone should lose their damn job and fast over this id–tic decision.
When a crew cannot make it to their train, then what happens to their precious dwell time then?
I guess when they are slashing jobs right and left and have over 2300 trainman furloughed, the majority of which, will never be recalled, and with the fox guarding the hen house, Trump appointed ex conrail executive, the 69 year old Ron Batory, who says he's ok with 4 or even 5 mile trains, with one man, or even autonomous operations, and his stance that the railroads can block public crossings indefinitely in the quest for higher profits, nothing is above the pail these days.
I heard that the goal is to slash everyone who hired out after 05/06 so that when the one man crew becomes the law of the land, they will have a lot less people to pay severance to.
The pre 85 guys that are hanging around will probably get paid once again, just like with productivity.
The BN guys get productivity and it is based on what they earn, and it is 11.5% of that, so $100k of earnings gets $11,500 in productivity.
Nothing like that will ever happen on the UP and the cutting will continue until their is no one left to bleed.
Anyone with less than 15 years are probably dead men walking.
In San Antonio road crews are required to walk to trains carrying all supplies and luggage now.
Got rid of all yard vans at Tucson.
Too cheap to pay minimum wage contracted employees I know the so called unions are almost worthless, but can anyone else see where this is headed when the "worthless unions" are completely gone? I think that we should really try to stick together as railroad employees just like the"carriers "do. Their divide and conquer strategy really seems to be working in their favor. As long as we are fighting each other, we won't notice that they are defeating all of us!
St. Louis cut bAck to only 1 yard tAxi for crews at Dupo and A s in St. Louis per shift. similar results are happening, $$ crunch vs volume, courage to care less abounds
Bakersfield has 1 posted from Renzenberger in front all night long.
They employed a few retired guys. A good part time job.
Kirby in San Antonio cut off the yard vans a couple of days ago
God forbid we pay another limo driver $8 an hour. I actually feel sorry for those guys. Who would drive railroad crews around at 2 am in the morning at those wages?