Railroads Want One-Man Crews on Freight Trains Hauling Hazardous Materials

Started by jimmy olsen, February 20, 2015, 10:37:40 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

mongers

Does anyone having figures about accident rates for US freight vs other country's freight by rail?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Razgovory

Quote from: Siege on February 20, 2015, 01:03:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 20, 2015, 10:43:20 AM
If the conductor's only real job is to make sure the engineer is awake then maybe they can find some people willing to do the job for less than 55K a year.

Union job.
How the hell the unions went from fighting for workers rights to bloated political handlers?

They didn't.  You were simply told they did and you believed it.  It's like how soliders went from defenders of the US to babykillers in the 1960's.  Well maybe that's a bad example for you...
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017