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Jericho

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  1. You should probably throw any plans for a vacation out the window unless you do it now. When you get hired, you will get one vacation day per month that are to be used for next year. Maybe they will grant you an unpaid leave of absence, but I wouldn't hold my breath on it.
  2. All Thales units are compatible with Alstom units. Train Operators are required to perform brake tests whether or not ATO is enabled.
  3. The exam is in mid May. You likely won't hear anything until April or beginning of May.
  4. It's because even with ATO inhibited, trains are allowed to travel faster under ATPM. For instance, the QBL express tracks used to be governed by 30 MPH grade time signals, but trains can go higher than that now.
  5. They can still reinstate themselves on DCAS and go from there. Wouldn't be the first time someone missed getting an email/letter/call. That said, people had been hired on the previous list that lasted for eight years so yea who knows. On the other hand, we already have two promotional conductor exams and those people deserve to move up from their title as well.
  6. People can and have been called in provisionally and since they are promotional they don't really have anything to lose aside from seniority in their old title. Anyway, from what I have heard, they look to continue hiring train operators and conductors throughout the first half of the year especially with the likelihood of having a ton of conductors trying to get promoted to train operators in the near future. So who knows what they'll do to keep those classes full.
  7. Yea, this is why we tell people to go to 180 in person to find out what's going on.
  8. You do a medical every year. They test your hearing the following year you're hired and then another full run of tests the year after. Yes, you'll be fine. I'd head back to 180 asap before someone else fills the class.
  9. Unfortunately, I don't think you'll get much sympathy from those of us who's been there especially when conductor classes are generally held on the PM to begin with. Sorry your class got stuck with the short straw. There will also come to a point where you will be working all three tours during your training if they haven't told you already.
  10. Probably something to ask before accepting the job tbh. Do not have high expectations that you will be given the tour, days off, and close reporting locations you want while you are XX. You want the AM tour? So do your classmates and the people with higher seniority than you. Being able to pick a job with weekends off will be possible only after many years of gaining seniority unless you win a job off the vacancy bid with it. Your tour and RDO can change from week to week. You may work the PM tour for a few weeks with Mon./Tues. off and then the next two weeks, you're on the midnight with Thurs/Friday off because they need you to work Christmas/New Year's. Requesting days off is not going to be as easy as emailing your boss. There's a really small cap on how many people can get the day off everyday and It's on a first come, first serve basis. You have to request the day off 20 days in advanced to automatically get the day approved if you manage to snag a slot. Request 3-19 days in advanced and you have to wait to see if the crew office approve it or not. Weekends are highly sought after so that means there's always a ton of people that are fighting each other to put their request in the automated phone system first. Though when people don't get the day off they want, they tend to get sick for some reason. Do not be late. Leave home "early" if you have to. Trains run on a schedule and it relies on you being on time to be on them. There's more others can chime in, but that's the basic HR gist. The upsides are that you do get a pension and the best health insurance ( though worst dental insurance) that you can get anywhere.
  11. Yea, no, you were suppose to go back ASAP. Forget waiting for an email from them. JUST GO
  12. Everything that deals with CBTC are still in their testing and revise phase. Simply put, ATS-B was programmed by people who never had to dispatch trains. It really does not help that it is not made by the same company that created I-Trac. It's very cumbersome to use which makes it hard to make changes on the fly. Schoolcar knows how bad it is and are trying to get the vendor to respond and make changes, but that takes time. Trains can get tagged wrong and then the ID can't be swapped or removed because of bugs they gotta work out. So train operators like RTOMan may have noticed that their train is tagged as an Extra. ID's can be lost on the way to CBTC territory because of track circuit failures perceived in ATS-B and the dispatcher responsible for IDing trains likely have not noticed cause there's a bajillion things to keep track of. Automated IDs is still going to be a long way out because the road is not perfect and there are put-in's and layups to be made that can mess with the IDs if they don't catch it in time and make changes on ATS-B. It's hard to flex intervals on ATS-B. It's hard to make changes to what crew is on the train. ETC, ETC, ETC It's very counterintuitive compared to I-Trac.
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