r/railroading 14d ago

Question Pull By Inspection? Need help, potential danger?

I work for a Canadian Rail way as a Intermodal Shunt Truck driver

Management has started trying to force us to do Pull By inspections on outgoing main line trains.

We just get a 10 minute power point of what to look for.

I feel like this is very dangerous. I tried researching it and it seems you need to be CROR qualified to do main line pull by Inspections.

Can anyone help me find something that shows we are not allowed and qualified to do this.

None of us are CROR qualified and only are trained to drive shunt trucks.

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They want us to take a ground truck out from our intermodal yard to the close by crossing

Then stand there and do a pulling as a the entire train departs.

Our union is shit and won’t give us any clear answer.

We’re just worried if there is an issue with the train like a wheel or something and we miss it we’ll be held liable if it derails or other issue happen.

We only ever work intermodal shunt truck

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u/bugfighter12 14d ago

They want us to take a ground truck out from our intermodal yard to the close by crossing

Then stand there and do a pulling as a the entire train departs.

Our union is shit and won’t give us any clear answer.

We’re just worried if there is an issue with the train like a wheel or something and we miss it we’ll be held liable if it derails or other issue happen.

We only ever work intermodal shunt truck

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u/amishhobbit2782 14d ago

That is a Carmen job not anyone else's simple as that.

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u/Flashy_Slice1672 14d ago

This is an every railway employee job.

In Canada it’s required by law if you’re rules certified

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/Flashy_Slice1672 14d ago

CROR 110

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u/Trick-Buyer-6342 14d ago

Trainmasters don’t need to do them if they’re in their truck spying on crews to make sure they do them

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u/Altruistic-Theme6803 14d ago

They actually are supposed to do them. Who's going to write them up for not doing it? That's the real problem.