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DART Driver Recruitment

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  • 16-12-2014 4:02pm
    #1
    haulier
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭


    I believe I.E. are in the course of recruiting more DART drivers. There are rumours of plans to introduce a 10 minute service.
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    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    haulier wrote: »
    I believe I.E. are in the course of recruiting more DART drivers. There are rumours of plans to introduce a 10 minute service.

    Do you have a source? Or is purely speculation.


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    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    It's true, a driver at Connolly told me


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    strandroad
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    haulier wrote: »
    I believe I.E. are in the course of recruiting more DART drivers. There are rumours of plans to introduce a 10 minute service.

    What's that, a dart every 10min to each end?


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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    I just checked the date of this thread in case it was April :)


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    Grandeeod
    Registered Users Posts: 12,095 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    corktina wrote: »
    It's true, a driver at Connolly told me

    Wrong. According to a certain Facebook page, it's Heuston drivers that usually spill the beans or not.:pac:


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    corktina
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    I said he was AT Connolly.....he had just worked through the tunnel from Heuston ;-)


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    Grandeeod
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    corktina wrote: »
    I said he was AT Connolly.....he had just worked through the tunnel from Heuston ;-)

    Don't believe you!:D


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    corktina
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    feck....forgot to add "fact" to my post


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    punisher5112
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    This must be a dream op.

    Sure I heard they are getting rid of darts.


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    Jamie2k9
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    IE already have enough drivers to provide such a service if they wanted to....


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    IE already have enough drivers to provide such a service if they wanted to....

    Does that mean they've too much if they don't?


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    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    seems that way....


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    whisky_galore
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    corktina wrote: »
    feck....forgot to add "fact" to my post

    It's only a 'fact' if you use caps. FACT.


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    goingnowhere
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    CEO is quoted as indicating a plan to increase DART frequency and that extra staff would be required.

    Increasing to every 10 minutes off peak would require more drivers than current.


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,800 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    goingnowhere wrote: »
    CEO is quoted as indicating a plan to increase DART frequency and that extra staff would be required.

    Increasing to every 10 minutes off peak would require more drivers than current.

    If that was so, recruitment would be internal as per usual.


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    rx8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭rx8


    Trainee Dart Driver vacancies have been advertised in all CIE depots for the last month. Closing date was last weekend. Nothing mentioned about the numbers required, but probably only a few, who will undoubtedly be related to current drivers that will be taken on.


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    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,989 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Does that mean they've too much if they don't?
    no

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    rx8 wrote: »
    Trainee Dart Driver vacancies have been advertised in all CIE depots for the last month. Closing date was last weekend. Nothing mentioned about the numbers required, but probably only a few, who will undoubtedly be related to current drivers that will be taken on.

    I cant see why they advertised them when there are already fellas who got the jobs and still waiting to be released.


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    end of the road wrote: »
    no

    Only you could justify that.


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    end of the road
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    Only you could justify that.

    well better to have them then not. means no having to train up new drivers when business grows again after the hard times. and they will be there as standbys.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    Jamie2k9
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    Does that mean they've too much if they don't?

    I would be very surprised if they need to take on any extra drivers to increase frequency. They hardly got rid of the ones surplus to requirements since DART freq was scaled back some years ago!

    Anyway any increase in service will likely result in minimal capacity increase as you will likely see 2 car DART's every 10 minutes and then during peak 4 car DART's every 10 minutes!

    However I would favor frequency over capacity so it would be a welcome development.


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    end of the road wrote: »
    well better to have them then not.

    Better to be over staffed than properly staffed? You would be virtually unique in this view. They do cost money you know, and have a negative knock on effect on the company's finances.


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    I would be very surprised if they need to take on any extra drivers to increase frequency. They hardly got rid of the ones surplus to requirements since DART freq was scaled back some years ago!

    Anyway any increase in service will likely result in minimal capacity increase as you will likely see 2 car DART's every 10 minutes and then during peak 4 car DART's every 10 minutes!

    However I would favor frequency over capacity so it would be a welcome development.

    Ogle & ILDA went on strike over fast track training for DART drivers... did that training method make it into play? I presume it's also only DART and not Commuter stock?

    Off peak on the Maynooth line is hourly and it really is annoying to see the DART getting 6 times the frequency without 6 times the patronage.


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    Decuc500
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Decuc500


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Anyway any increase in service will likely result in minimal capacity increase as you will likely see 2 car DART's every 10 minutes and then during peak 4 car DART's every 10 minutes!

    However I would favor frequency over capacity so it would be a welcome development.

    Unfortunately for the Northside a Dart every 10 minutes would mean a Dart to Howth/Malahide every 20 minutes and 4 car Darts in rush hour to either destination every 20 minutes would mean very packed short Darts.

    Then again most evening rush hour Northside darts are 4 carriages now so it probably won't make a difference.


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    LXFlyer
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    Decuc500 wrote: »
    Unfortunately for the Northside a Dart every 10 minutes would mean a Dart to Howth/Malahide every 20 minutes and 4 car Darts in rush hour to either destination every 20 minutes would mean very packed short Darts.

    Then again most evening rush hour Northside darts are 4 carriages now so it probably won't make a difference.



    Not necessarily - the timetable is built in such a way that currently the combined commuter and DART service delivers a minimum 15 minute frequency from stations north of Howth Junction and a similar frequency from Howth between 07:45 and 08:45, and similarly in reverse from the city between 17:30 and 18:30.


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    Decuc500
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Decuc500


    lxflyer wrote: »
    Not necessarily - the timetable is built in such a way that currently the combined commuter and DART service delivers a minimum 15 minute frequency from stations north of Howth Junction and a similar frequency from Howth between 07:45 and 08:45, and similarly in reverse from the city between 17:30 and 18:30.

    There’s a Dart from Pearse to Howth on week days at 17:41 and the next Dart to Howth is at 18:04.
    That’s a 23 minute gap.
    The last time I got the 18:04 Dart (a few weeks ago) it was 4 carriages and people couldn’t board at Tara Street.


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    end of the road
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    Better to be over staffed than properly staffed?

    would you like potential service cancelations because of not enough drivers if they were only "properly staffed" which is something you haven't told us what it should be, or would you like a few extra which can be eventually used to re-grow services without having to spend money training them up from scratch? i know which one i'd rather.
    n97 mini wrote: »
    You would be virtually unique in this view.

    i suspect i wouldn't. better to have a few extra that can be used to grow services again when things get back on track, then having not enough and having to train up new drivers from scratch when the time comes.
    n97 mini wrote: »
    They do cost money you know

    and it will cost and take time to train up new ones. better to have a few of the old gard around who can step in once times get good.
    n97 mini wrote: »
    have a negative knock on effect on the company's finances.

    so be it. its a cost worth baring for the benefits it will bring eventually.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #29
    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Is that you David? :D


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    patrickbrophy18
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    A few times over the past few weeks, I've looked into this "so-called" introduction of a 10 minutely DART service on the official website and other sites and I haven't seen any mention of it.


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    ClovenHoof
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    Frequency always wins over capacity - which is why The Lynch Mob had massive platforms extended which require millions in land purchases (at the height of the boom) and bought lots of new DARTs now rotting in yards.


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