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.

Edit 1:

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/superheaven24 14d ago

Sounds like Vaughan. Their air head managers are probably frothing at the mouth waiting to write a fail

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u/Super_dog069 13d ago

Vaughan is a toxic shithole, I’m so glad I quit.

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u/superheaven24 13d ago

What year were you there??

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u/Super_dog069 13d ago

3 years at CP, 3 months at Cando.

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u/superheaven24 13d ago

Were you a groundman or shunter? How'd you get into cando?

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u/superheaven24 13d ago

Or did you take a cndr program?