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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Tue Dec 3 10:57:48 2013, in response to Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Dec 3 10:42:06 2013. Nobody's badmouthing anyone.You wrote: "Metro-North engineer pay so bad that the hogger can't buy coffee?" That sounded like a sarcastic bashing of the engineer to me... In any case, the union has nothing to do with the FRA Hours Of Service rules. Those rules are etched in stone EXCEPT in an emergency, and in those cases the rules are bent in ways that cause MORE fatigue by ordering people to work beyond the normal 12 hours. Now I have no idea if the engineer in this case was on a "regular" job or was a "list" guy. Most "regular" jobs are set so that there is plenty of rest between shifts and if an employee is fatigued, it is usually their own doing. Working the extra list is much more erratic, where guys can work days, nights, and sometimes even "double out" (working 2 shifts in a 24 hour period), as long as there are "8 hours between off duty and on duty". What they don't take into account is that the 8 hours rest is interrupted at some point when the crew dispatcher has to notify the employee of his next assignment. So if you take into account the time it takes for the typical employee to get home from work, time to wind down, sleep, get interrupted with the call, the time it takes to go back to sleep, sleep, and then wake up to go to work, there is obviously MUCH less than 8 hours of sleep going on. And if that scenario is repeated for several days straight, problems can arise... |
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