Active fleet is down 151 locomotives since 11/10/23. Will most likely drop more after peak season.
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Don’t worry about it. Car loadings are higher since 2021.
What location was this done at?
Who knows where but I guarantee you, like I posted in another thread, I won’t be based of PRODUCTION or PERFORMANCE…that’s just a line of BS
It will be interesting to see what locations they choose to layoff from…will they go with the locations who had the most people return from call backs last time? You know they know which shops had the highest return rate
This layoff call back stuff DOES NOT work anymore in the bigger areas…. Way to many jobs out here for these young guys to go to and never return….Like what JUST HAPPENED a few years ago…These higher ups are just COMPLETELY outta touch with reality
It’s the old-school rural operating department mindset…train people with no good options for something that will eventually be a good-paying career, then string them along for a few years of seasonal, but increasing, work, while they continue taking part-time and short term gigs around their towns, until they finally get full-time work for the rest of their lives. What they’ll learn is that doesn’t play as well with crafts, city-dwellers, and gig-economy-mindset millennials. They think they can train-layoff-bring back-layoff-bring back longer-layoff shorter-bring back…they’re going to find that mechanical crafts are more likely train-layoff-lose forever.
More mechanical layoffs to come! What’s the point of hiring them and training them if they’re just getting cut after peak season anyway?