Dieseldriver
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- 9 Apr 2012
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Yep. I had problems with a manager over this very issue and decided to blow very long low tones at whistle boards for a little while to 'placate' them. A few weeks later I cane round a curve approaching a foot crossing at high speed after blowing a single tone at the whistle board. There was an older gentleman still in my four foot who had just started crossing (he must have started crossing as I was blowing the horn for the whistle board), the second I saw him I blew a long two tone warning and he quickened his pace to get out of my way. It was not a near miss but it was uncomfortable and I honestly think that he hadn't properly heard my warning at the whistle board.Makes sense until you bowl someone over on a crossing.
Goes without saying that I religiously use both tones for whistle boards since then and am more than happy to explain my actions to any manager petty enough to create an issue out of it.