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They don't check for protein only glucose. He might be diabetic and just don't know yet.

Trust me TA needs at least 650 more T/O's this year alone to get back up to normal staff levels and that's only for this title. Crew shortage is expected this summer due to all the vacations coming up. The next round of letters asking recently retired T/O's to come back and work for 90 days are starting to go out. What's compounding it is there isn't enough TSS's to handle all the new hire classes they need to have as they are short on that title as well. Some days it's hard to even find a TSS to respond to your train if you need assistance.

That is correct. Complete your 1 year probationary period as a Track Worker first. Should you not make it thru schoolcar or have an incident as a T/O they can send you back to your previous title. Otherwise you'll be terminated from TA. I would defer.

That's odd because the most recent photos are on page 68 of this thread.....

As of now Kawaski is on schedule to deliver a 10 car test train (R211A) onto NYCT property in April. I'm glad the master controller is back centered in the middle. 5 car unit in the Nebraska plant is near complete assembly.

If you don't get a call back regarding the drug test results that means you turned up negative. It's when you get a phonecall that you should be worried. The drug test standards are set by the DOT which you can view on the DOT website. They run a FULL tox screen for EVERYTHING. At this stage if you turn up postive (if the drug isn't prescribed to you) or is an illegal susbstance you will not be hired. All the randoms I have taken alomg with incident testing (12-9's) I have never received a call back from drug tests. You should never recieve a call back.

I can tell you all those hoping to get hired as T/O and C/R they are needed. They are short staffed (due to retirements and many who haven't returned back to work because of Covid) and don't have enough road crews. As of right now I have no problem getting an RDO or late clear. Once this pandemic settles and is under control I truly feel they will go on a hiring blitz like they did when I was called a few years ago.

Where did you get the idea that it is a conflicting signal?? I really hope you're joking? Example: R10 sign with a 15mph sign at the same location. The R10 is telling you that your entire train (10 cars) have clear the switch and you may now resume the allowable speed for the area which is 15mph. Come on..... If it is just a Green R sign with a 15mph together at the same location like Dave2836 said that is telling you to resume the allowable speed for that area which is 15mph. It is NOT a conflicting signal. There are quite a few locations like that. So you are saying a 20mph sign with a DGT15 right below it is conflicting???? This is exactly why you must know your signals and which fixed sign applies to you.

It's not new. When I was hired back in 2012 I had to pay for fingerprinting and processing. They had that requirment for the money order for a few years now.

Read it carefully. It says nothing about the N and Q getting CBTC. The new ATS signals will be CBTC ready if they decide to go that route in the future. The R160's that run on the N/Q are already CBTC ready.

I heard this too going back as far as 2014. Supposedly this test is going to be the last open competitive. T/O will return back to a promotional only title.

If it wasn't for the fact they extended the last open competitive twice I don't think anyone who scored below a 92 would have been reached. When I took the test back in 2009 I was told to score 95 or above to have any chance of being called due to the amount of people that took the test.

Visually it's the same....It's A no brainer that there will be slight design modifications on the suspension..

The R160's were scrapped from in the past because of the power supply difference out in the rockaways. LIPA provides the power out there not ConEd.

You do realize the R179 uses the same trucks/contact shoes as the R142 right?