Re: Drunk cityrail driver

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

<thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:91p4uq$2eun$1@pc1762.alcatel.com.au...
> Ah so there's other reason's for breath testing than assuming the drivers
> pissed :) There must have been some sort of incident down the line. Funny
> how a well thought out answer can enlighten someone who doesn't understand
> normal procedure for safeworking incidents.

>From your original post (left at the bottom for posterity): "The train would
be held until they arrived. bit of a worry, anyone hear what happened. You'd
have to assume the guard reported him and was scared half to death."

YOU were the one making wild accusations about the driver being drunk and
making insinuations about his driving. You have admitted that you do not
understand normal procedure for (handling) safeworking incidents, so you
were the one that went off half cocked. If you had come in and asked a
general question "Why would they be doing this" you might have got some
civil responses, as it was you are lucky you weren't flamed somewhat more
severely.

Dave

> Rod [comtrain] <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course, only if you like to believe the worst.
> > It is actually normal proceedure for Drivers to be breathalised after a
> > safeworking incident.
> > As an example, if a signalman returned a signal to stop, and the driver
> > passed the signal. The signalman when being made aware of his mistake
might
> > deny that he had, and the Driver is reported as passing a signal at
Danger.
> > The Driver will then be breathalised. Similarly if someone is hurt
getting
> > on or off the train, or it is derailed, or involved in any accident.
> > Recently when a semi trailer derailed my train, by climbing underneath
my N
> > Class, I was breathalised, by the Police, as well as being blood tested
on
> > arrival at Albury base Hospital. So Sir think the best not the worst, We
> > carry millions of people all over Australia every day, safely, and even
> > Sydney, with all its present day problems, is among the top suburban
Rail
> > Sytems in the World.
> > <thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:91k65u$ej$2@pc1762.alcatel.com.au...
> >> Yesterday i was listening with my new scanner and heard that the police
> >> had been called to breathalise the driver of a cityrail train due to
> > arrive
> >> at platform 18 at central at 10.57am yesterday morning. The train would
> >> be held until they arrived. bit of a worry, anyone hear what happened.
> >> You'd have to assume the guard reported him and was scared half to
death.
>
>