Transportation News

DIPP: Members helping members

The Discipline Income Protection Program (DIPP) is your union’s premier worker assistance program that protects a member suspended, dismissed, or removed from service by the carrier for alleged violations of rules or operating procedures. SMART-TD is committed to continuing i [...]

2024 rail fringe benefit sheet released

Many factors weigh into our salaries and compensation packages; seniority, assignment preferences, rail traffic/volume and work location, to name a few. When working on an extra board, sometimes our compensation depends on downright luck. The provisions of on-property agreeme [...]

TD National Training Seminar is ready for registrants!

Registration is now open for the Transportation Division’s (TD) 2024 National Training Seminar at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown in Cleveland, Ohio, from July 9, 2024, to July 11, 2024. This unique and exciting event is open to all TD Local, State Legislative Board, and Genera [...]

Safety, tech report links back online in SMART app

Links to the Transportation Division’s workplace Safety Condition Report and the railroad Technology Event Report in the SMART app are again functional for Transportation Division members. The links to the report submission forms should work upon opening the app and the [...]

Online fundraiser established for survivors of slain Local 171 member

An online fundraiser has been set up for the survivors of Dexter Perkins, a member of Local 171 (Aurora, Ill.), after he was slain in an act of violence Dec. 22 in Wheaton, Illinois. Brother Perkins, 37, had been a member of our union since September 2022 and worked as a cond [...]

Registration open for Albuquerque RTS

The SMART Transportation Division’s next Regional Training Seminar (RTS) is scheduled to take place March 4 through 7, 2024, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Albuquerque. Attendee check-in begins the afternoon of March 4, and those attending should plan to arrive then. Cl [...]

Victory in the Empire State: N.Y. two-person crew bill signed

Given a second chance to act, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has chosen to side with safety. In late 2022, a bill requiring two-person crews on freight trains in the state reached her desk and she vetoed it. But something changed this year — perhaps it was seeing legislatures and [...]