11-05-2018, 12:04 PM
(11-05-2018, 09:33 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-05-2018, 09:14 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: You are assuming that weekend labour costs are greater than weekday costs. It could be that that as long as the shift is scheduled far enough in advance and not in excess of the length of a regular day that it is considered a regular shift and not OT.
I am making that assumption, but I don't think it's undeserved. Again, it *might* not be true for drivers, if they have enough drivers such that none are working more than a five day work week, but I suspect it probably isn't true for the dozen engineers and other auxiliary personnel who are also work on testing the train, who didn't sign up for a weekend job. Construction usually costs more when done on weekends.
Transport Canada sets a maximum limit that the drivers are allowed to work in any given Day/Week/Month which is why they couldn't do weekend/night testing without breeching those limits. Now that they have enough drivers to do it, they'll be using all those new opportunities to test the line as much as they can.