Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

BlackDog · Purveyor of Positive Attitudes

They Got One

FMB · Board Modification Mediator

Why am I not surprised......??

I see the day coming when they just pull your phone records and compare it with your on duty times.......

Astrobuck10 · Cured

Yeah that's too bad things got that fucked up.
I see the day coming when people take someone's previously mentioned advice , and carry a dead clunker. Then I further suggest maybe running an account billed to someone else's name.

Or a pay as you go card anonymous model like the dial a doper gangs. Like I said before we have not experienced this type of enforcement
of that rule here yet. But, the new crop of 90 day wonder kid conductors are displaying a deep seated Text-addiction problem that will sure as hell lead to an incident of a magnitude sufficient to bring the problem public. I've had too many trips this year where it was necessary to say " Hey we're gonna meet another train pretty soon, while I'm bringing this train under control, if you're not too busy, when you're done texing sweet baby there... could ya please call up for another clearance." ???

A few grouchy old hoggers won't make it go away
before there's big trouble.

-- Edited by Astrobuck10 at 12:21, 2008-11-18

Uke · Cured

Sooner or later...and you guys in TY&E know it's gotta happen, the bigs are gonna call for a "Zero Toleranceolicy," whilst banning outright the use, possesion, and/or carrying any kind of 'personal communication' device...while on a moving train, or while on duty.

It's gotta happen. The FRA/STB, and railroads put it right in front of John Q. Public's face when the incident happened in Cali a few months ago. The engineer "...texting while operating the Metrolink train just before..."

Couple that with the use of handheld communicators [cell phones, pagers, walkie-talky-thingies...] and you can predict the Feds jumping on and issuing a new rule! Do not pretend surprise when it hits the fan!

Hoghead Bob · Unstable

Ive always turned the fucker off and thrown it in my grip. I don't talk on the phone when I drive I sure as hell don't talk on the phone when Im running a fucking train. I don't even talk on the radio unless I have to. On the other hand allot of my conductors use their phone to talk to the industries we are going to be working or talking to the coridor manager ect.

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

My thumbs are to big for texting...

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The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I'd have to use a chopstick or something similiar
to push those tiny buttons.

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The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I was on a jury on a drug case and the defendant
made some serious boo boo's with his cell phone.
The court records basically had a chronicalogical list
of every cell phone call the phone made. Just think of
your cell phone in the same way of your home PC
should it ever be confiscated. The information is
always going to be there unless you're a good cleaner.

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