Most of us wish your postings would be at an end altogether. They are repetitive & based on the spurious authority that you sit in a cab & respond to buzzers & bells. If you were a rail manager,having been a driver, with wider experience you might be listened to. Several of us actually wonder if you even drive trains. You post morning noon & night & very frequently. Do you have time to work??
DOO is world wide & has been with us for years. Get out in the real world & see.
Speak for yourself. Who are 'us'? Funnily enough train crew keep funny hours. I can absolutely vouch for the fact that the poster in question is a driver with experience of DOO and crew working. Funnily enough it's a topic that is quite important to those of us the issue affects or potentially affects and it seems odd that people who it substantially doesn't (except of course as the unfortunates caught in the middle of the mess) somehow expect unemotional debate.
Put it this way, if it all comes to pass and in the event that it turns out the Government do have an ulterior motive and I end up in the Job Centre as the end result, in favour of some minimum wage care bears, I can't say that I'll be up for any kind of reasoned debate with anyone over the matter. That's why I largely stay away from this thread now.
Previous actions by the DfT and various TOCs do not lend themselves to being trusting in their intentions, London Midland's revenue protection department, lots of managers and clerical staff, and plenty of grades from the Gatwick Express hosts to legions of on train caterers who have been done away with provide perfect testament to that.
TOCs have also been censured for falsifying (not necessarily maliciously, some are down to individual incompetence) risk assessments in the past so you'll forgive me for not trusting them there either.
The point remains that with a guard or other safety critical or mandatory crew member there is guaranteed to be someone there to do all the things a guard does, doors or not (see SE 395s), and that's regardless of length of train. With the new system, there might not be, and it's pot luck as to whether there's a problem they could deal with as to whether they are provided or they aren't. It seems illogical that during disruption when they are likely to be of most use (I spend most of my time in the train reassuring people, replanning journeys, issuing water etc) is the most likely time for them not to be there.