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Jobsworth driver
On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:55:09 -0000 (UTC)
Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote: wrote: The test for a commercial vehicle is a LOT harder than a car. You don't get away with many mistakes and the test enviroment is a lot more varied. Kev and Trace might scrape through driving their corsa a bit erratically on a car test but they'd be failed in minutes on an HGV or bus test. And yet with the same breath you dismiss train driving as 'pulling levers'. Surely you realise that the train driving assessment is just as strict, if not more so? I can imagine being a steam locomotive driver was a bugger of a job. Physically hard and you had to get the feel of the engine under different loads. I suspect driving a modern freight loco is still tricky (although not physically) as you could be just driving the loco itself or have 2000 tons behing you. Driving a computer controlled EMU though that won't allow you to play silly buggers with the throttle and brake, doesn't change much in behaviour from empty to full load, doesn't have to be steered and when it goes wrong needs a technician with a laptop to turn up anyway? Don't tell me thats particularly hard. Seems to me the only hard part of being a modern EMU driver is the shift work aspect of the job, other than that - piece of ****. |
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