Well, if I had to guess, theft is the railroads biggest problem in these two cities, I am sure many others as well.
The praise makes for a good laugh!
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Trump will bail out Vena if he fails.
I don't see the merger going well at all, at least not with Vena in charge. The proposed merger is going to be a haunting experience for him. The STB and whoever else gets involved with it, is going to scrutinize everything and is going to pick apart every word Vena has ever said. It's not going to take very long for anyone to see just how dishonest Vena really is. Vena can't afford to back out of the merger, just because doing so will cost him 2.5 billion dollars. The same applies if the NS backs out of the deal as well. Either way it's going to be a straight uphill battle for Vena for this merger to happen. The stock price isn't really going anywhere, employees are fed up, management is the worst it's ever been, and the equipment is failing with no one left to repair them. If or when the merger hearings take place, Vena will have to be there pleading his case and he doesn't do too well under pressure. It should be very entertaining to watch.
As bad as this merger is, after it is completed maybe just maybe the class 1 railroad game changes to let’s grow market share vs who can keep their operating ratio below 60.
The fact that Soroban dumped 100 percent of their stock should tell you what you need to know about how this company is doing.
Jim Vena is depicted in Diaper Diplomacy on YouTube with Donald Trump.
Too bad they don't do the whole Executive and field supervisors at
Union Pacific!
They need to send ICE to make sure Jim is legal to work and live in the US
Not putting our company in a good light for sure.
I feel sorry for the person who ends up taking over for Vena. Fritz was trying to correct the problems caused by Vena the first time, only to have Fritz removed and Vena put in his place to make everything MUCH worse! The UP needs more people and they really to more of their own police! Now they have almost zero police presence and the employees that the UP has left don't care. So I say bring in the national guard to protect the UP trains, then send the bill to Vena for payment. Let's see how long Vena remains the CEO after being charged by the federal government for train theft prevention.
Buy orange crypto.
Just imagine how much deferred maint will accrue on both railroads by the time this merger is approved. It’s already starting to look like the pre Conrail fleet.
And the Graffiti! Man! We look like a left wing Ghetto billboard in black neighborhood. These engines are getting tore up and Jim Vena doesn't care about anything except the Merger with NS. Wait until he get it approved and those those NS Engines get hit
Vena should have a Donald Trump Hertiage locomotive done with Trump serious glaring stroked out face staring down at the public. Engine 4547.
When I started almost 30yrs ago there were over 20 railroad police officers in my terminal alone. There were 3 shifts and you could always reach one over the radio. Now there is 3. Of those 3, 2 are almost always out of state working in california. This exemplifies the disease Vena has worse than others before him. They ignore what needs to be done bcuz he focuses only on what he considers costs and his stupid operating ratio. UP has an obvious need for more railroad police to protect and preserve UP property, to provide safety to UP employees and security for UP customers freight. Now w/o railroad police trespassers are everywhere, UP buildings are regularly broken into, employee cars are robbed in UP parking lots, homeless camps are in yards. Fe--s and used needles surround signal houses, etc. But Vena doesnt care about protection, property, safety, quality, or assuring security for customers property. I wish customers would pay there bills to UP w/ cash sent on UP trains and when the cash gets stolen lets see Venas attitude towards having a a safe and secure railroad then.
😂😂 just comical at this point.
Well if you stop 2 and 3 mile long trains for an even longer time, then you give the criminals more time to rob them. Maybe I'm not understanding this completely, but what the he-l did they expect? Does Vena really think that the national guard is going to babysit UP trains? Train car theft is happening allover the system. Here's a better idea for Vena if he's watching. RESIGN and let the board find someone who actually knows what the he-l they're doing! The other ideas would be like hiring more people to handle the longer trains and to switch out the longer trains, so they can keep moving in the network. You could also reopen and hire more mechanical folks to keep the equipment working as it should to prevent the trains from the road failures that they're prone to have with the garbage equipment. You can't layoff hundreds and hundreds of mechanical people and really expect the trains to keep moving. Here's my favorite idea other than resigning, GET RID OF LOWER MANAGEMENT! The UP can save tens of millions of dollars in payroll expenses going to the people that just sit in an office all day playing on their cell phones, chatting on the computer, or disappearing to who only knows where. Many of them don't even know what they're supposed to be doing and slows things way down anyways. It's an entirely useless position that's not needed, especially at the smaller locations. They don't need four and five levels of lower management. The UP needs more workers and less management, and not the other way around. Unless someone thinks that the management can switch out cars, repair locomotives, and repair the rails. Less people=more problems. More people=less problems and I didn't need a mathematics degree to figure that out! Start using that math degree you say you have, start doing your job, or LEAVE!