Re: [NSW] Driver shortage?

["f.u.i.t.b.e.t" <fuitbet@yahoo.com.au>]

Yes well, they knew it was coming.
I was on a working party way back in 1986 to look at where the then ETR
section was going to get it`s drivers from.
But as usual it will go away, let us not worry about it was the attitude
from above.
We will just changed the conditions under how a driver will receive his
promotion to appointed driver and force all freight trainees to the ETR.
While this seeemed to work for a number of years it made for a lot of
unhappy people, those who did not want to go that is.
The grand plan soon started to fall down around them, with the workshops and
other areas where they were sourcing their locomotive driver trainees from
through re deployment started to be depleted but still no forward planning
in the serious sense.
The coming of NRC and the coming of Freight Corp and the fact there are no
more to re deploy, the situation is now a critical one indeed.
On the training side of things I believe the following should occur.
When the trainee is at a level deemed competent he she still needs to have
the experiences of the road and other out of the ordinary workings put into
place with the other knowledge they have had instilled into them
Then and only then are you going to get some where.
A lot of incidents have occured with inexperienced drivers being caught out
during periods of out of the ordinary workings, some with very serious
consequences and have been good luck rather than good management in regards
to injuries etc.
It is blatantly obvious that there are some very serious road training
issues that have never been addressed properly.
"Marvin The Martian" <choochoo@spin.net.au> wrote in message
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> After Glenbrook they have been forced to improve the training but there is
> still some way to go.
>
> Ivan Smith wrote:
>
> > "Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message
> > 9b0p6k$n1l$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au">news:9b0p6k$n1l$1@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au...
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, but this is NSW. The SRA couldn't educate a wet paper bag.
> >
> > Ivan
>