Additionally, CSX won’t be as quick to furlough workers during a downturn, to make sure the resources are there to maintain service, Hinrichs said. The industry had struggled to hire and retain workers, including train engineers that typically make more than $100,000 a year. “If th...
no problem!’ And we reversed, and sped along Route 67 out to an open location near milepost 66 in Brookfield. (I’d photographed a CSX empty ethanol train here last October. (Click to see:CSX Empty Ethanol Train Catches the Light ...
Absolutely. Look, as we continue to analyze the plan and we made our changes throughout the last few months, we wanted to make sure that everything we gained with respect to our train footage and train tonnage, road starts that we didn't lose any momentum on that side. And as Jim had...
Turning to Slide 7. We remain committed to being the safest railroad. In the second quarter, we achieved a new record low number of train accidents, driven by our focus on increased communication and education to reduce human factor caused accidents. Safety initiatives for the remainder of the ...
Our train plant also greatly improves our crew productivity. One measure of this productivity is the total number of dead heads or the times we have — or the times where we have to reposition crews using taxes or other vehicles because there isn’t a return locomotive. The balanced plan re...
When you get to the point where you’re train length gets to the point where long enough or heavy enough where you need to split that train, and when you split at train, you need to have the additional employees to utilize in order to be able to operate it and so we are, we’re...
clearly we have assets in terms of locomotives etc. What we want to make sure is that we have the employees and this is not like we can go hire some guy off the street and put them to work the next day, it takes five, six months to train these people, to get them ready. So ...
train and engine service employees off on COVID, that we would just simply do what we’d always done. We’d hire 500 employees, the 300 employees would come back who got sick, and we’d be rocking and rolling and we’d be moving freight. No one ever gave me a heads up that says...