i never had any problems getting rest at the away from home terminals.. infact..that is where i cought up on my sleep...now the home termial..thats a differnt story..by the time you get home and have to do all the other things that go along with life (paying the bills.. spending time with the wife and kids.. takeing care of the house/yard.. ext ext.) by the time you are done with all of that..and lay down to get some rest..the phone is ringing to report back into work...
csx engineer
Crew fatigue? Nah, that doesn't exissssssssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
But seriously, csx is right. Easy to get sleep in a hotel (nothing else to do). And I try to go to sleep pretty quick, because usually you have no clue whether you will be called right on your rest (giving you a whopping 5-6 hours sleep), or you will be there 12-18 hours. At home you try to acheive your balance of doing something, sleeping, and trying to get some more sleep before work. Doesn't always work.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Pay no attention to the manager behind the curtain saying " There is no fatigue,or we are doing something about it!" Horse manure. I tried to lay off fatigued and was denied.Thats BULL in my book. Just what I want to do is argue with an idiot trainmaster!
I have thought about moving to the west end of our division as I have been stuck in that hotel longer than when I am at home.But I digress. I dont mind the hours somedays but every now and then you do need to decompress and get away for a bit.I would rather be sharp and at the top of my game as fatigue is a killer.
Railroads will fight the new HOS. Hell some rails will cry about not making enough because of the shortening of hours.Maybe then the BN will start promoting more engineers( they seem to be the ones turning and burning even when we are slow)But who knows.
Doesnt matter now as I hopped back to the yard. So in my bed daily now ( just dont know which shift lol)
Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train
I have read for years the reasons the carriers give about odd hours. If a yard job can have regular hours it would stand to reason the road guy could have some regular hours to a point. Factories have regular hours for the most part so they are not calling for emptys at odd hours. It is one thing to have a mechanical failure on the road and die on the law. But the RR could do better if they wanted too.
If we could schedule trains like in the old days no problem. However we have trainmastercranialrectalinversion here at our yard. They will call trains where the power is still on another train and not even near our terminal or the division! Then they cry that the service track is out to kill their trains.