Train drivers = greed

Ulfhedjinn said:
There's a bit of a difference in my opinion.

Someone dying as you try to save their life is a bit different to if someone purposefully jumps in front of your vehicle and you, in essence, have personally killed that person. I can see why it would be hard to deal with.
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the massive difference sways in favour of the emergency services having it bad...

Its not just any vehicle - a train can't be swerved nor stopped quickly

so the train driver sees someone get injured or killed for a brief second...

either some paramedic will get covered in blood/dirt rescuing a very serious casualty (an be exposed to them for a lot longer) meanwhile or the police will be organising the removal of the body.

If the person is still alive then you'll get a bunch of nurses/doctors still struggling to save him/her - if he/she later dies you've got a bunch of people who didn't just seem him/her for a brief second but were probably getting coated in blood etc.. trying to save him/her

I think the fat bloke sat in the train cabbin who earns a fair bit more than most of the memebrs of the emergency services is hardly hard done by if he happens to see one or two suicide attempts in his 30 year+ career.

A front line soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan can easily be on less than half of what these train drivers are earning.
 
Mr Joshua said:
Then you'd lose on that point :).
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Probably, its just that trains don't deal with traffic, reversing (much) etc

Not to mention, I know a couple of train drivers, both of whom reckon my jobs the harder.

I just keep asking them where the steering wheel is! ;):D
 
badbob said:
Do you carry 200+ people in your semi? No
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what's that got to do with the price of Pork? :p

Coach drivers get paid less than truckers, they have the lives of their passengers in their hands don't they?

Its always puzzled me that Coaches in the UK are allowed legally to go faster than HGV's despite the fact they are HGV chassis based & full of people. :confused:
 
pitchfork said:
Fair play to bus drivers i know one of near 24k, but 40k? sorry you are taking the urine a bit there.
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I think £40k refers to train drivers, hence me bitching that Bus / Coach drivers (not to mention truckers) earn considerably less, but have an equal responsibility towards others.
 
R124/LA420 said:
but have an equal responsibility towards others.
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That's always been the case though, people who look after money are always paid better than those looking after people ;).

Comparing like for like with drivers of road vehicles is a waste of time. Most places offering HGV training run a 2 week course and test, if you pass your test then away you go. A trainee train driver job I've just heard about took 7 months to complete the training and then you would have to start learning different routes and how to drive the different classes of loco.

They don't just let you go anywhere you want on the network even after you're qualified.
 
I think its an insult...

And I agree with the HGV comment, I work in the private transport sector, road haulage and HGV drivers in general are very skilled, Im not familliar with trains but driving a train must be like playing Scalextric in comparison.

And as for the supposed trauma of hitting someone, well it wouldnt bother me in the least, theres no need to be on a track unless your wanting to die, so to me it would be no different to running over a pigeon or a hare, slightly unpleasent but hey, so what.....:rolleyes:
 
EVH said:
I'd drive the train for £39,500 a year ;)
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itd be even better if said london train drivers were also starting their work outside their door at a depo/station on the outskirts of london, sexy london pay with the more realistic prices of not london!
 
mattyfez said:
Well I think thats the point, I cant see anyone needing to be skilled.

Press a button and off you go:p
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bit more to it than that in most cases but in London, on the DLR, you're spot on

I actually witnessed a 'driver'/operator bloke sit with his kid and let the kid push the button (copy of the sun newspaper in front of him too)

OK those things are actually basically automatic and the bloke is pretty much there to open the doors but even on a normal train it isn't exactly a high level of complexity

the fact that these people can similar amounts to pilots is a joke.

driving a coach is more hazardous than driving a train yet plenty of coach drivers earn less than 20k
 
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