[NSW] Safety no priority

"Ray Murphy" <raymur@chariot.net.au> wrote in message

> >TRAIN drivers regularly speed, guards often don't know who is driving and
> >crews are rostered with little regard for fatigue, a damning new report into
> >rail safety in Sydney has found.
>
> RM: If guards don't know who is driving, and there is a *need* to
> know,

There's no need to know.

> Personally I would have thought that a driver's uniform had always
> been regarded as adequate evidence that the bloke who looked like the
> driver *was* the driver.

They don't even see the Driver most of the time, just as the Driver doesn't see or know who the
guard is.

> >guards are not properly trained
>
> RM: That sounds a bit suss to me, because it's not real hard to learn
> how to be a guard.

Yet still they don't know how to un/couple trains and other guard tasks.

"Tezza" <tezza2002@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Ray Murphy" <raymur@chariot.net.au> wrote in message
>
> > >TRAIN drivers regularly speed, guards often don't know who is driving
and
> > >crews are rostered with little regard for fatigue, a damning new report
into
> > >rail safety in Sydney has found.
> >
> > RM: If guards don't know who is driving, and there is a *need* to
> > know,
>
> There's no need to know.


There will be soon- so get used to it!


>
> Yet still they don't know how to un/couple trains and other guard tasks.
>

Get real. I know a lot of drivers who don't know all their duties as well.

"Dixon Trumper" <dtrump@easynet.com> wrote in message
> "Tezza" <tezza2002@netspace.net.au> wrote in message

> > "Ray Murphy" <raymur@chariot.net.au> wrote in message
> >
> > > >TRAIN drivers regularly speed, guards often don't know who is driving
> and crews are rostered with little regard for fatigue, a damning new report
> into rail safety in Sydney has found.
> > >
> > > RM: If guards don't know who is driving, and there is a *need* to
> > > know,
> >
> > There's no need to know.
>
>
> There will be soon- so get used to it!

There's no need to know.


> > Yet still they don't know how to un/couple trains and other guard tasks.
> >
>
> Get real. I know a lot of drivers who don't know all their duties as well.

Irellevant to the discussion.