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    TOC/FOC Notice Period

    You are correct, a very senior ASLEF rep said to me by the time your case came to court your notice period would be over anyway. ASLEF and the RMT would welcome any attempt at "Breach of Contract" in a court as it would laughable. My ex employer threatened me with breach of contract when i left...
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    GB railfreight driver

    Thank you, it's paid my mortgage off :)
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    GB railfreight driver

    A DB Cargo driver in a similar Mobile Train Driver role will currently earn between £90/£98K for a 32hr week with much better conditions. :D
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    Interviews are still being conducted from the last campaign, i do know a qualified driver who should have started recently but was leapfrogged by an internal candidate from another depot (he has been kept informed) , it's pretty fluid at the moment so people shouldn't give up hope. Lots of new...
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    PM me your name and i will have a chat with PJ (CDM) next week, and i will try and find out where we are up to :D
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    Your hub can't be Crewe or Warrington then, i've lost track of the number of times i've had to dig you're train out of long sidings then :lol:
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    Steve, yes it's me :lol: hope you are as well as can be expected :lol: keep that XR4I on your trailer :D
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    It's still the best job ever :-) 100 times better than passenger work:D:D:D Last night i booked on at 1759 job cancelled, spent an hour talking to the fitter, 2 hours later i was sat outside the pub having a pint. That never ever happened in the thirteen years i was driving pass trains for...
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    When we talk of train handling we normally refer to wheels turned, in an average week it's normally around 15 hrs, so for someone off the street around 10 weeks, but that doesn't include two weeks on a simulator and 25/50/75 etc assessments. And the 150 hours is a minimum, the trainee may feel...
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    The only difference i am aware of between a junior and trainee driver is the number of hours train handling you do, i think junior driver is 50 hrs (it might be 75 hrs) and a trainee driver is 150 hrs. The qualified junior driver i have just trained up to mainline driver has had to do another...
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    DB Cargo Talent Pool

    You won't be in a talent pool for long with DB recruiting 200+ drivers. I've just trained up a junior driver to mainline driver, i've now got a trainee with me who was straight off the street and there are two more awaiting mentors. Our Contracts Delivery Manager is interviewing for trainee...
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    DB-Cargo-UK-Apprentice-Junior-Trainee-Driver-Peak-Talent-Forest-Pool

    Business is booming at Peak Forest, new contracts out of Tunstead and increases in services. There are currently 3 people at the training school (one is a PF shunter) and an ex Toton yard driver who is currently undergoing train handling to become a mainline driver. I also know of someone else...
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    DB cargo Groundstaff question

    Dan - if you are based at Mountsorrel then you are in the East Midlands Hub (Nottingham Station, Cliffe Hill Stud Farm, Leicester Station, Mountsorrel, Toton Yard/TMD). The Cambridgeshire Hub is Peterborough Station/Peterborough yard. Hope this helps.
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    GBRF Stockport/Manchester trainees

    Cemex originally asked for 11 trains to be covered, DBC only accepted the night Hope Street, the Ely might follow but that would be instead of the night Hope Street. Business is booming in the Peak District all the FOCs will be recruiting.
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    GBRF Stockport/Manchester trainees

    https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R29097/2020-02-26/detailed https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R29447/2020-02-27/detailed

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