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Welcome to the UTU website for

Local 1168. 

Regular Meetings are at the Elks Lodge, 218 North Sycamore, the Second and Fourth Tuesdays of each month, at 9 am:

NEXT MEETING ON 12/25/10

On Wednesday 08/03/10, there will be no change to Clovis Board 21, the number will remain 105 turns. 

The thing to watch this week is:     

There has been an increased in the number of Speeding Incidents, past an Approach Signal.  So be sure to check your speedometer for correctness and watch your speed through turnouts, permanent speed restrictions and the speed of your train.  Engineers, be sure your reverser is centered when stopping for extended periods of time, Stall Burns are on the increase.  New on the radar, the Remote desk will monitoring speed change down the mountain for trains over 100 TOB.  Use common sense and good train handling, just because the speed has been increased, doesn't mean we are required to go 45 MPH........  Be sure to notify the Dispatcher when a crew member is on the ground doing work.  And the 8 Deadlies, as always. 

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  Did you know that there is a field in this screen to designate whether you want a message to be pushed to you when you are not rested? If this field is set to “Y”, the system will push a message regardless of whether or not you are rested. Otherwise, a message will not be pushed when not rested
  Did you know that once you set up a push alert that you can pf10 and send a test message to be sure the address for your communication device is set up correctly – there is a similar option in the telephone maintenance screen…

Projected View – CCTM_Option 1

Did you know that we have added a pf10 key to toggle between the “C” and “P” views so that you can easily tell the difference without having to back out of the screen

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    “Push Info1” – “times out on my working board” alert
    “Push Info2” – “times out on my Active/Ratio board” alert
    “Push Info3” – “hours out” alert
  Did you know that when you receive a push alert, a record is written to this standing history recording the information that was pushed
  Did you know that if you have more than one push alert set up, the standing history screen will identify which alert set-up the push was based on

 

Conductor Recertifications coming along check out the Article on the UTU web site at UTU.org 

Operations Testing Highlights, the following are items that have been brought out at the Safety Meeting as areas to focus on and improve on when we perform our duties:

1.  MAINTAINING 3 POINT CONTACT

2.  MAINTAINING 50 FOOT RULE AT SWITCHES WHEN LINING THEM.

3.  MAKING SURE CROSS OVER SWITHCHES ARE IN CORRESPONDENCE PRIOR TO MOVING THROUGH THEM OR      PASSING ON TANGENT TRACK.

4.  FROM KEVIN MCREYNOLDS AND THE ROAD FOREMAN OF ENGINES AND THE REMOTE TESTING DESK, THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN STALL BURNS, BY NOT CENTERING THE REVERSER AND LEAVING THE THROTTLE IN RUN 1.  And applying the Independent Brake at speeds above 20mph.

Remote Audit
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Set and Centered
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Stalls & Revving
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Recent focus is on compliance rather than exceptions only.
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Will be monitoring the new Speed change down the mountain for trains over 100 TOB.

For Insurance Needs Check Out the Download Under UTU Insurance or Click on The Follow Link:

Dan McElley Field Representative

and He Can Get You Fixed Up With What Ever Insurance Needs You May Have.

 Stay In touch with YOUR Officers
All Local 1168 Sisters & Brothers: If you have recently changed your Mailing Address, Email Address, or Phone Number please let the Secretary/Treasurer know as soon as possible. This is necessary to keep our records up to date with the National Division and we will also be able to pass information along from the Division to all of it's members.
Those members who have questions about, or wish to contribute to Local 1168 but cannot attend the monthly meetings you can email any of the  Local Officers.

Questions or Concerns about unsafe work conditions or work practices;

Contact the UTU Rail Safety Task Force and express your safety issues and concerns with one of the Task Force Members to help resolve the problem and bring it to the attention of others.  Get onboard with Safety in the Work Place and benefit not only yourself but others also!!

We can be more powerful than a

 locomotive only through unity

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