Well said, my first early can start at 03.40 and jump the next day 0715 back to 4.28, 5.30, 4.14 then finish on a 08.55 that by the end of my 6 early shifts I’m hanging. And it’s a regular occurrence. Week of lates, back to early, rinse and repeat. Is it any wonder a few fall seriously ill or die soon after retirement?
(sorry if this has already been mentioned): Subsequent to the Guardian system, a form of speed control was fitted to the trams. Called Positive Prevention of Overspeeding it is designed to stop the tram if approaching very low speed curves and other risk-defined locations too fast. It was described here: https://www.railengineer.co.uk/tram-speed-protection/
The Guardian camera captures head an shoulders only!
Maybe so, but at what angle
They can. It's lazy computerized rostering.
I am very thankful we are not rostered that way as drivers at my TOC. It's still how guards are rostered though and is really an awful practice for an industry that claims to be aiming to reduce fatigue.Mine are a little better than some at (roughly) clumping similar start times together, but you’ll still have big changes week on week eg finishing at 0100 Sunday morning after a Saturday late, and being expected back in at 0450 on the Monday morning, with the Sunday a “day off” !
As you say, working a week of the same diagram and it’s repetition isn’t good plus it can also it lead to incidents as come the end of the week when fatigued and weary while you should recognise something isn’t right but don’t it could lead to you making a mistake. Roughly the same start times that week would work well enough I think. But I guess that requires higher levels of staff so that’s not going to happen. And I prefer lates but swapping can be cumbersome.
this is still mandatory in the UK
That footage doesn't go to managers who generally have a dislike of the driver grade though.
. That tends to mean I end up swapping earlies for the same relatively small number of all day turns (which are unpopular with most), and just having to suffer the lates I’m rostered. We have more earlies than lates, thankfully.Looks like Aslef signed it off.
It would eventually you know. Getting this in is the first step. Once in they would use it for monitoring and assessments.
If you read my earlier post quoted above, you will see why ASLEF have agreed to a trial of this technology with 3 companies on the mainline. To simply say "No" would be extremely damaging to the union and only play into the hands of the government and right wing media who wrongly accuse the railway unions of being against modernisation. ASLEF get involved in almost every trial of new technology whether they are against it or for it.
My concern is it will be a case of whatever the results of the trial are, the DFt (or whoever is pushing this money wasting crap) will present them as being a success. If they catch loads of drivers out its a success as those drivers are now off the road. But those drivers are now off driving duties indefinitely or have to be accommodated at great expense to tax payer. Its not as if there has been a fatal rail accident this century where a tired driver has been blamed. Vigilance and AWS are rather good at keeping us alert, tired or not!
I think it’s more TPWS is good at catching us.
Only if you let it get to that point! But overall there are countless safety systems in place to prevent drivers cocking up and this feels very much like someone trying to cook up a lucrative contract to fit out the entire UK fleet and make a vast sum of money in the process . Not that the Tories could ever be accused of doing anything like that!
Exactly this.
