BNSF employees
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Can anyone tell me about the conductor job. how days you are typically gone at one time? what kind of rotation you are on? what the schooling part of the job is? I know you go through their program. any kind of info you can give would be great.
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Don't mess around if you're serious
But do understand that this is like enlisting in the Armed Forces...your life will no longer be your own. If you have a young family, jealous or "needy" spouse, a parent that needs regular attention...you probably should not consider this.
If you want to have a life, enjoy a hobby, participate in sports, church, or fraternal organizations..this lifestyle is not for you.
If you want to work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, etc., etc.,etc., times ten...then either be refused a day or two off (or be made to have to resort lying that you are sick to get a day off), and then that day can not be a Fri., Sat., or Sunday...if ou like the sound of that...you might make a railroader.
Short temper, bored easily, trouble remembering things, like booze or chemicals????....go somewhere else...you'll only get fired in due time.
Schedule=work (up to 12 hours), off 8-80 hours (but when you are off like this, you must be available for work at any time, within two hours, sober and rested). Now repeat this ten to forty times a month. You might make more money in a week than you've ever made in two or three months, then be out of service (with NO pay) for the next thirty days for something your engineer forgot to do (you're part of a "team" and equally responsible).
Still itching to move some freight?
Try these:
http://www.jccc.edu/home/depts/4614
This will get you to Johnson County Community College near Kansas City which runs a program of conductor training that the BNSF participates in. Complete it and the BNSF should at least interview you. Course and room cost me about $5,000.00
Or:
aburton@jccc.edu
I think this is the same guy who ran the program in 1999 when I went there.
Good luck.
MuddyAxles
BNSF conductor school at JCCC,
but hired by
CSX 7-1/2 years ago
now locomotive engineer.
If you want to have a life, enjoy a hobby, participate in sports, church, or fraternal organizations..this lifestyle is not for you.
If you want to work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep, etc., etc.,etc., times ten...then either be refused a day or two off (or be made to have to resort lying that you are sick to get a day off), and then that day can not be a Fri., Sat., or Sunday...if ou like the sound of that...you might make a railroader.
Short temper, bored easily, trouble remembering things, like booze or chemicals????....go somewhere else...you'll only get fired in due time.
Schedule=work (up to 12 hours), off 8-80 hours (but when you are off like this, you must be available for work at any time, within two hours, sober and rested). Now repeat this ten to forty times a month. You might make more money in a week than you've ever made in two or three months, then be out of service (with NO pay) for the next thirty days for something your engineer forgot to do (you're part of a "team" and equally responsible).
Still itching to move some freight?
Try these:
http://www.jccc.edu/home/depts/4614
This will get you to Johnson County Community College near Kansas City which runs a program of conductor training that the BNSF participates in. Complete it and the BNSF should at least interview you. Course and room cost me about $5,000.00
Or:
aburton@jccc.edu
I think this is the same guy who ran the program in 1999 when I went there.
Good luck.
MuddyAxles
BNSF conductor school at JCCC,
but hired by
CSX 7-1/2 years ago
now locomotive engineer.
Last edited by MuddyAxles; Jan 3, 2007 at 09:59 PM.
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