The alerter that we have on the head end of the engines--that is basically what people would know as the dead-man switch, the alerter--was a good improvement.
The rules on rest were a big improvement. There is now an attempt to erode them, and that is a big concern to me, because in B.C. Rail we're only allowed to work 10 hours. On CN they can work 12 hours. Where we work, if you were to put these guys out there for 12 hours, you'd be looking at serious situations, like they have in the States, with fatigue. They just finished a report on a head-on collision that it was deemed to be due to fatigue. That's because down in the States, their crews--their spare boards and stuff--are only eight hours rest at their home terminal and only six hours rest at their away-from-home terminal.
CN fine-lines their crews so much that if you're on a spare board, when you wake up and get up, you're going to work.