New CMO doesn’t believe in overhauls. “Why would I spend a million dollars to rebuild a locomotive when I can buy a brand new one for 3 million”. Straight from his mouth at the town hall meeting in NLR. Jenks shop is doomed.
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Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see
The CMO is impressed with Jenks said he plans to do low hp locomotives there and high hp as needed. Should we believe him?
Up too cheap to buy many new ones.
Maybe if people posted accurate information instead of twisted lies and name calling the posts wouldn’t get deleted. 99% of the info on here is emotionally fueled drivel trying to stir the pot...that is it. Misery loves company not true facts.
Vena shows up with a violin case, wearing white shoes and encourages the site to delete posts UP execs don’t like?
There were over 30 comments on this thread. Some of them were detailed and substantive. Many of them are now gone. Strange.
What happened to all the other post? Guess someone got there feelings hurt and got a mod to delete them!
I'm late to the thread and will admit I'm not reading 30 comments. However, I will say I'll believe it when I see it. Have you ever seen the condition of some of these manager's vehicles? I once saw the all the work that had been done to an old managers jeep over the years at a single shop. It was over $17,000. You couldn't have sold this thing for $500, but they just kept on spending money to fix it instead of buying a newer model. Up will spend $100 to save a penny.
I think the UP has stored the newest Progress rail/EMD tier 4 locos as their reliability was worse than the dash 8’s. The reason the spend 33% of new on overhaul is you don’t have to upgrade the emissions to the costly unreliable units. If the new CMO was good he wouldn’t work for UP and remember Vena hires him. Enough logic for now.
New CMO told us in Fort Worth that "safety is just a matter of luck". It was very surprising to hear that from a CMO at this company.
Buying the new tier 4 units would put people back to work faster than anything. So unreliable. I'm surprised he doesn't want to bring back the sd9043 they are low mileage
You could tell him that $1 million is less than $3 million, but that would probably go over his head.
Can confirm. Was told there is nothing the mechanical shop at nlr can do to avoid further layoffs. Plans are to cut at least 400 more loco. With future plans to find the very bottom of cuts to the fleet.