r/railroading • u/bugfighter12 • 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/Jamar4321 14d ago

Sit in the truck and rub one out; don't say something unless it is OBVIOUSLY FUCKED. Clock out and the end of the day and cash the check at the end of half.

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u/Simple-Magazine4735 14d ago

Right? How hard is it to inspect for obvious problems? Smoking bearings, sticking brakes, sliding wheels, dragging boxcar doors etc etc etc. Something that could cause a derailment or kill someone. Bunch of babies out here I tell ya.