Amend Hours of Service Act of 1907, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics ... 89-2, on H.R. 5196, H.R. 8376, June 24, 27; August 1, 19, 26, 29; Sept. 9, 12, 16, 19661966 - 531 pages |
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16 hours 16-hour limit 24-hour period 9 hours additional amendments assignments average hours away-from-home terminal BARRIGER believe brakeman Brotherhood of Locomotive caboose carriers cars casualties Chairman class I railroads collective bargaining committee conductors consecutive hours cost deadheading division DUNN Dunsmuir earnings engine crews enginemen fireman Flomaton freight and yard freight service freight trains FRIEDEL Gerber GILBERT home terminal hours of service hours on duty increase indicated Interstate Commerce Commission labor layover legislation less locomotive engineers long hours Louisville MANION MCGUIRE mileage miles miles per hour number of hours number of trips overtime Pacific percent PICKLE proposed railroad employees railroad industry railroad safety reduced rest road road switchers Section 2(a seniority Service Act service law signal statement Sugar Land switching testimony tion train accidents train and engine train crews train dispatcher train operations Union violations WATSON week yard service
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Page 3 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 13 - ... brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 9 - to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 421 - Conference Committees and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America.
Page 48 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, its officers or agents subject to this Act, to require or permit any employee subject to this Act to be or remain on duty...
Page 173 - When a train stops or is delayed, under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the flagman must go back immediately with stop signals a sufficient distance to insure full protection.
Page 456 - Training material delineating minimum federal safety requirements will be developed for distribution in coordination with the Association of American Railroads and the American Short Line Railroad Association.
Page 510 - ... in proper condition and safe to operate in the service to which the same is put, that the same may be employed in the active service of such carrier in moving traffic without unnecessary peril to life or limb...
Page 55 - Administrator shall conduct a study and shall submit a report to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the United States House of Representatives...
Page 124 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee: I am happy to appear before you today in support of legislation to make the railroads safer for their workers and their passengers.