Okay. I received a phone call from tech support about the boom. Maybe it's not working if it's picking up the hardware microphone on the laptop. I'll just try to slow down.
Fatigue in the railway is a major component of train incidents and personal injuries. The new proposed duty-to-rest periods are a major improvement on that fatigue, but the railway carriers need to address the train lineups. When I'm going to go to work, I need to know well in advance how much time I have to prepare for it. Right now, as it stands, if I work at midnight, I'll be phoned at 22:00 hours, or 10 p.m., to report to work, so I have two hours' notice before I need to report to work.
Prior to that, there's a train lineup I can follow that's very inconsistent and often inaccurate. As I alluded to previously, there's a train that's ready to go at 5 p.m. and I'm waiting and primed to be rested for that, because when I report to work I could be working for a maximum of 12 hours. If that suddenly disappears and I'm going to work at midnight for the next train, now I've been awake and rested to go since 5 p.m. and I could be awake for an additional 12 hours.
Fatigue science has proven that 17 hours of wakefulness is equivalent to a .02 blood alcohol content and it increases exponentially after that.