Re: [NSW] Driver shortage?

[Marvin The Martian <choochoo@spin.net.au>]

They rely to much on test results and not the real world. Working for the railway
is a totally different and coming up from station assistent to guard to driver or
from freight is a big advantage. Of course the people of the street learn it
eventully but it just takes longer. State rail training isn't what it could be
either.

Stuart Thyer wrote:

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> In article <3AD3DEF0.EC25D520@spin.net.au>, Marvin The Martian
> <choochoo@spin.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Hope they do a better job of choosing drivers than when they choose some of
> >the guards before the Olympics.
> >
> >Anita Lukaszyk wrote:
> >
> >> Marvin The Martian wrote:
> >> >
> >> > They recently advertised for guards to become drivers, the wanted around
> >> > 120 and only got 14 applications and only 3 of them were from guards you
> >> > have had the required 3 years. I assume that the guys coming from
> >> > freight corp will not fill the numbers so where will they get them from?
> >> > Someone I talked to suggested off the street God forbid I hope not.
> >>
>
> I suspect they probably had more problems taking from the guards  than from
> the street, it would have been a very limited selection of people in the
> guards grades to choose from, when picking from 'the street' you have a much
> larger range to select from, even after weeding out the real dills. What is
> this alleged talent that you get from being on the inside that an outsider
> can't pick up, after all, you don't see too many nice things said about
> guards by drivers anyway.
> A well run training course should be able to bring any of these people up to
> scratch if they have the right aptitude to start with, it works in other
> states.
>
> Stuart Thyer
> Photographer
> University of Melbourne