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Crew Fatigue enters House's Radar- Trains Mag August 2007
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<p>A worker will be on the job when they are supposed to at the appointed date and hour or they get replaced by another who can.</p><p>Real life has no consideration in Congress or off Company Hours.</p><p>In trucking the dispatcher will say "see you tomorrow morning." you may have 4 hours to go before you actually get back to your home to bed but dispatcher does not care about that. That is your problem.</p><p>I have had trucking jobs where I actually spend an hour or two or three driving TO the truck and then spending another hour or two getting READY to LEAVE to actually pick up a load somewhere. None of that matters in the log book. What matters is "Off duty" until your 15 minute pre-trip at the ternimal and your wheels need to be turning and leaving that ternimal at that specific time. If you are already tired from half a day spend getting TO actual work.. then that is currently YOUR problem and will become the company's problem easily solved by YOUR TERNIMATION and replacement with SOMEONE ELSE who will not be too tired to go to work when required.</p><p>You may have been awake for 20 hours all day waiting for a load to be ready before having to leave right now to be somewhere 500 miles away tomorrow morning... that is your problem not the Company's. Why? Because DOT does not make provision to account for "Awake-time" Until they do, the driver who cannot be somewhere the next morning will either die trying, kill someone else trying or be late and get fired.</p><p>Who knows? You might actually arrive at the customer next morning on time. Then your reward is to be allowed to sleep the day away and get ready for the next mission.</p><p>Driving tired is the same as driving drunk as far as Im concerned. </p><p>If you cannot endure the 4 hour lost time between work and sleep, it's time to re-assess what you are doing in life and find another line of work.</p><p>The Union Pacific Mainline thunders and roars between 10 PM and 3 in the morning. Constant trains 15 minutes apart in both directions.</p><p>Let's suppose for a moment that the Union Pacific has to run those same trains by day time between 8 am and 8 Pm. There is certainly the capacity on that same mainline that sits empty except for a few Z trains and a couple of fat slow Manifest Trains that are not required to be anywhere particularly right away.</p><p>While we are looking at it, let's close down the walmart store at 8 pm and send everyone home. It is not vital to the USA to have a customer go into one at 3 in the morning to get some smokes while the entire store staff of 14 from the Cart boy to the cashier all the way to the night manager struggles to stay awake.</p>
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