CNSFFred thinks Hunter doesn't like premium intermodal service; in fact, Hunter's one big success was speeding up the network, starting with the intermodal trains. Before Hunter, CN's Toronto-Vancouver intermodal service offered fifth morning availability. Hunter took a full day out of that schedule (perhaps at the Canadian's expense?) as part of an overall "nned for speed" push.
Interesting. This is one of the first things EHH did at CP. He took a full day out of the intermodal schedule between Vancouver and Chicago. We now boast that we have service 8 hours faster than CN.
CNSFDuring my years at Santa Fe, there were certain customers and blocks of traffic that we always allowed our more desperate competitors at SP to 'win', knowing that they would actually clog up their system and keep them from improving their service enough to attract our more profitable customers.
Interesting again. I was sure that CN demanded a change in the interchange rules in my area just to clog us in a area where we expect the most growth. I have always been shocked that our management gave in to CNs demands. We have been clogged and screwed since day one of the implementation of the new rules. However, I always wondered if CN was that smart to look ahead that far. Seeing your post confirms that yes, they are that smart and yes we are that dumb.
Anyway, on to something new. It appears the tool given to trainmasters to get them out from behind their desks and to intimidate crews, is to increase to the number of proficiency tests they must perform. I don't know the exact numbers but I was told from one trainmaster that the new quota is doubled. Also, they must find failure. They even have a quota on the number of failures they must find. So now we have trainmasters constantly performing proficiently tests. They continue to watch a crew until they find a failure even if it takes hours of their day.
cptrainman CNSFFred thinks Hunter doesn't like premium intermodal service; in fact, Hunter's one big success was speeding up the network, starting with the intermodal trains. Before Hunter, CN's Toronto-Vancouver intermodal service offered fifth morning availability. Hunter took a full day out of that schedule (perhaps at the Canadian's expense?) as part of an overall "nned for speed" push. Interesting. This is one of the first things EHH did at CP. He took a full day out of the intermodal schedule between Vancouver and Chicago. We now boast that we have service 8 hours faster than CN.
I think what he is getting at is there isn't much (if any) UPS, Fedex, LTL stuff moving on CN or CP. This it typically called "Premium" Intermodal..
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
This may be old news.
I read that CN filed suit over a non competitive clause in EHH's contract. Was that settled or was this something new?
Thx IGN
Apparently that's settled now, as of a couple of weeks ago.
cptrainman Anyway, on to something new. It appears the tool given to trainmasters to get them out from behind their desks and to intimidate crews, is to increase to the number of proficiency tests they must perform. I don't know the exact numbers but I was told from one trainmaster that the new quota is doubled. Also, they must find failure. They even have a quota on the number of failures they must find. So now we have trainmasters constantly performing proficiently tests. They continue to watch a crew until they find a failure even if it takes hours of their day.
Make sure you really know the rules, and then use them to your advantage.
Malicious Compliance
zardoz cptrainman Anyway, on to something new. It appears the tool given to trainmasters to get them out from behind their desks and to intimidate crews, is to increase to the number of proficiency tests they must perform. I don't know the exact numbers but I was told from one trainmaster that the new quota is doubled. Also, they must find failure. They even have a quota on the number of failures they must find. So now we have trainmasters constantly performing proficiently tests. They continue to watch a crew until they find a failure even if it takes hours of their day. So that means now you must do everything absolutely "by the book". Everything. Make sure you really know the rules, and then use them to your advantage.
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