According to my son, who is an engineer, these companies are also mandating a “vaccinate or be terminated” policy. All you need is a bunch of railroad guys to walk off the job, which many are threatening to do.
I think Atlas is about to shrug. What’s next, a tunnel cave-in in Colorado?
“Congestion”
The 1.17 and 2.73 as posted make no sense. Please learn to post correctly.
“...difficulty hiring conductors”
I hear they have a big role in freight train operations.
Everyday, going going Galt looks better and better. Soon enough the pain of change will be less than the pain of the status quo.
Of course the railroads are at times their own worse enemy. Closing rail yards, single tracking, and E. Hunter Harrison’s precision railroading business model, while great for cost cutting and profits, left the industry unable to quickly respond to changing demand. Throw in labor shortages, mandates, and Team Biden, you have the recipe for further supply chain collapse.
Taint nothing an opium suppository shouldn’t fix.
I was a conductor for BNSF. F#CK BNSF and the railroads.
Inside baseball... They can use their mileage of tracks to store the f#cking cars. They do it all the time. Just run a train(sluggishly) while waiting on the customers to request the commodity. I’m guessing Buffet is looking for some gubment funds.
Lack of conductors. lol. They paid me well but I still say F#CK them. They get paid $400 to move a car in an industry about 200 feet and there are 20 cares to move, takes about an hour. Stupid money that they don’t pay to the people doing the slavish work.
Have all the railyard workers going 24/7. Fire anyone who won’t take the vax. Pay them an extra sixty minutes an hour. We’ll raise your taxes to do it. Come on and pay your fair share. The roaring 20s are here. Let’s outlaw booze. Just for old time’s sake.