(Source: Whitefish Pilot, November 18, 2015)
WHITEFISH, Mont. — Gene McDaniel remembers the night vividly. Piloting a BNSF Railway freight train west through Idaho, he approaches a road intersection without crossing arms, he sees an SUV. He recognized fatigue was an acceptable element of railroad operations, but BNSF in September changed the way it schedules crews working on the Hi-Line route through the northern tier of Montana. The change, McDaniel said, left it nearly impossible to know what day or time he might be called out to work. He describes one day when his start time for a shift was moved up by a day and half without warning.
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