{"id":26869,"date":"2016-06-16T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=26869"},"modified":"2016-06-16T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:39:06","slug":"smart-td-blet-press-release-federal-regulators-must-prohibit-one-person-freight-train-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/smart-td-blet-press-release-federal-regulators-must-prohibit-one-person-freight-train-crews\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART TD, BLET to FRA: Ban one-person freight train crews","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_26302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26302\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26302 size-thumbnail\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Previsich_150_px-149x150.jpg\" alt=\"Previsich\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Previsich<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSMART Transportation Division President John Previsich and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) President Dennis Pierce, issued a joint statement, following their submission of their comments to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on train crew size.<br \/>\n&#8220;Operating freight trains with one-person train crews is unsafe and must be prohibited. That is the message we delivered yesterday in the comments filed with federal rail safety regulators,&#8221; Previsich and Pierce said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our comments provide a clear rationale for the FRA to finalize a rule this year and to close loopholes included in the agency&#8217;s initial proposed rule that could permit the limited use of one-person crew freight operations.&#8221;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26866\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26866 size-thumbnail\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Pierce-Dennis-e1466091346293-140x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pierce, Dennis\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierce<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/static.smart-union.org\/worksite\/PDFs\/6_15_16_joint_BLE_SMART_TD_two_person_crew_press_release_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the official press release from both unions<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/static.smart-union.org\/worksite\/PDFs\/SMART-TD_BLET_Joint_Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the comments submitted to the FRA<\/a>, followed by the polling results of 11 individual states on two-person crews conducted by DFM Research on behalf of SMART TD (see page 18 for polling results).<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMART Transportation Division President John Previsich and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) President Dennis Pierce, issued a joint statement, following their submission of their comments to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on train crew size. &#8220;Operating freight trains with one-person train crews is unsafe and must be prohibited. 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