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20 mph is not a policy for Scotrail neither is 10mph at a platform ramp within an occupied platform ‍♂️

anyone have anymore information with reguards to this? i have been A/L due to return today

Company council and local level council both rmt and aslef i know for fact one internal from Dumfries...whos course was starting in January..has now had to relocate to Motherwell as the Dumfries vacancys were withdrawn i dont have the official email reguarding this but im aure someone will i...

it seems that the rumors are indeed true...that due to the failure by abellio and company council to agree a deal to include sunday as part of the working week...75% of the new drivers will not be needed and the company will continue as is untill 2018 at least. The 25% will be taken on to cover...

I heard a rumor yesterday..maybe bothy talk...that 75% of the advertised jobs had been withdrawn by Abellio. This was down to Abellio failing to agree a salary increase with company council to make sunday part of the working week. The company cant afford the increase in salary so things will...

not mine lol no idea to be honest and i wouldnt like to warrent a guess....but i dont employ drivers

Granted there wont be many qualified drivers from other tocs in scotland applying...foc with a few areas in scotland finishing up they could be (as in previous uears with Falkland yard etc) brought in to the passenger side. however my point remains that a SR will take a qualified driver with...

"their way" wouldnt come into it, a clean and decent record would show the driver be competant and a few months conversion would be all it takes. For business, financial and productivity there is no way a trainee would get the nod infront of a qualified driver with a decent record..

true but they will be on full salary and there training will be 8 weeks instead of 13 plus months and a 12 month climb to full salary. The vacancy states that but there is a section in the application for qualified drivers. why would a TOC employ a trainee who needs the bast amount of...

they dont need 100 "trainee" drivers they need 100 new drivers....if a qualified Driver moves from another TOC then they are not a trainee. A qualified driver with a decent record will get the position before a trainee.

why would they take on a trainee..if a fully qualified driver with a decent record was available?

type 1 diabetics cant become train drivers...im unsure about type 2

Only certain types of females mainly otherwise of a certain age :roll: --- old post above --- --- new post below --- no ex freight drivers at dumfries so no idea where your getting your fabricated information from

Only thing i disagree with is the internal candidate having the better chance isnt exactly true, it opens up another debate for another topic, where it is said, due to government funding and cost effectiveness the external candidate in the last several years been favoured, although as you say...