CSX launches 5-state hiring spree, looking for more than 3,500 workers

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The news clip says 500 workers. This isn't LBN, so I get to correct it.

CSX launches 5-state hiring spree, looking for more than 500 workers

CSX will be scouting for new employees in Alabama, Maryland, New York, Indiana and Tennessee as part of its projected hiring of 3,500 people across its network this year. The workforce expansion is driven by worker attrition and a rising demand for service, CSX said. "CSX ... is working to ensure the company is positioned to continue meeting the freight transportation needs of its customers," said Jane Covington, CSX vice president for Alabama. Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (3/29), The Tennessean (Nashville) (3/29), The Sun (Baltimore) (3/29), The Birmingham News (Ala.)/AL.com blog (Alabama) (3/29), KPCNews.com (Kendallville, Ind.) (3/30)

This is from a news clipping that gathers news of interest to members of the railroad industry. I don't know if you can go to the site without a subscription. All the links to the various newspapers are encrypted too.

ETA:

CSX says it plans to hire in Albany, Buffalo

Published 08:14 p.m., Thursday, March 29, 2012

CSX Transportation, which maintains its largest freight yard systemwide in Selkirk, said Thursday it plans to hire 240 people, mainly in Albany and Buffalo, to fill positions left vacant through attrition and to help it handle growing demand.

Nationwide, the railroad will hire 3,500 people.

Last year, CSX hired 350 people in New York state. It had 2,360 employees statewide and paid compensation totaling $175 million in 2011. The railroad said it actively recruits military veterans. Nearly one in five employees have served in the military, and last year nearly a quarter of those hired were veterans.

To apply, visit http://www.csx.com and click on the Working at CSX tab.

— Eric Anderson

[notadmblnd]

1. I've always wanted to work on a railroad

However, I'm 53 and female, they wouldn't give me the time of day.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. .

My father worked for Grand Trunk Western Railroad for 50 years. His father worked for Grand Trunk Western Railroad for 50 years. His father died in a train accident while working for Grand Trunk Western Railroad back in the late 1800s. Then on my mother's side both her father and only brother worked for the same company (it is how my parents met).


I guess I should have followed in my father's footsteps but the whole Amtrak thing was going on and it looked like railroads were going to have a real issue back when I was in my late teens. My brother did help lay track for a summer when he was in collage so technically that would make him 4th generation railroad (same company).

[doitagain]

15. try

A 53 yr old female probably has a better chance than a 25 yr old male..i work for csx for the last 12 yrs in ny,they hire almost every woman that applies,they are scared shitless of law suits.

[Brickbat]

17. You'd be surprised. If you can do the work, they'll give you a chance.

Depends on your background, though.

[Populist_Prole]

2. It could be a tough life, but the money is good

As seniority is accrued, the job becomes more secure and the schedule can become more regular if you value more personal time vs money.

I've got several aquaintances that work or worked for the RR. None of them regret it.

Good to see hiring that will help stymie the GOP's plan to torpedo the economy. Then again, the Republican party would not hold blue collar RR employees in the highest regard anyway and probably rue the fact anybody but "suits" can make a good living.

[Jazzgirl]

3. This is common now across all Class I railroads.

They are all hiring a lot of people due to the high retirement rate. I'm outta here in two years and will have 40 when I retire.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. They have a pretty big turnover rate

Once the new hires see how they're treated and how they're expected to be beholden to the RR, many shove off.

[FarCenter]

6. Freight is shifting from road to rail due to higher energy prices

Double stacked container cars are carrying more goods. This probably more than offsets the revenue lost from lower coal shipments.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Do you have a source for that contention?

Most of the freight that is economical to be shipped via rail already is. I don't see the truck freight tonnage is down much, certainly not significantly

[FarCenter]

11. U.S. Intermodal Container Traffic

Monthly year-over-year percent change in domestic and international containers moving through U.S. intermodal networks.February domestic container intermodal traffic increased 20.2 percent year-over-year and 7.7 percent sequentially. In contrast, international container intermodal traffic was up 1.6 percent year-over-year, but fell 8.9 percent sequentially.Roll Over Data Points for Exact FiguresData Included: 2/2012

http://www.joc.com/rail-intermodal/us-intermodal-container-traffic

Intermodal Traffic Rises 4.2% for Week

U.S. intermodal traffic rose 4.2% for the week ended Saturday from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.

Trailer traffic dropped 11.4% to 29,795 units, while containers climbed 7% to 202,606 units, the rail trade group said in its weekly report.

Railroad carloads excluding intermodal fell 7.2% to 278,393 units, the group said

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=29020&t=Intermodal-Traffic-Rises-4.2%25-for-Week

[elleng]

14. Good news, suggests recover really is.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. "Double stacked container cars are carrying more goods."

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Good point. CSX has a bottleneck in Baltimore in the form of the Howard Street Tunnel. There was a big fire in this tunnel back in the summer of 2001, and trains were detoured far and wide. Now, however, the issue is the widening of the Panama Canal, which will bring a new class of container-carrying ship, the Panamax class,* to the East Coast. Ports will have to enlarge their facilities to handle these ships, and if the Port of Baltimore wishes to remain competitive, it too will have to make changes. Double stacks can't get through the Howard Street Tunnel, so something has to be done. It is barely below street level, and there is a subway line directly beneath it. Now what?

Aging Baltimore tunnel a threat to shipping economy for the city and Maryland

By Ashley Halsey III
Published: March 28

Nobody in 1895 would have thought that a difference of just two feet might one day influence more than 40,000 jobs in the 21st century.

The final spike in the transcontinental railroad had been hammered down just 26 years earlier, and with railroad companies in hot competition, a tunnel was built under the heart of
Baltimore to serve one of them.

Now, 117 years later, the tunnel's too short for the taller modern freight trains. Like the throat of an hourglass, it chokes commerce along the East Coast and to Midwest markets.

This was the site of the first mainline railroad electrification, if I am not mistaken.

* ETA: Panamax-class ships are the widest ships that can get through now. After the canal is widened, the new widest class of ships that can get through will be in the New Panamax class.

2006 Expansion plan and the New Panamax

I hope I have that right.

[originalpckelly]

8. Fuck, they just can't have more shit in CO?

That's my luck man, I would totally do anything to work there.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Check out Union Pacific

Www.up.com

Ill Bet they have openings in Co

[NoGOPZone]

10. Does CSX even have business out there

I though the were only in the East

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. They are only in the East.

They don't have track West of the Mississippi;



CSX is what became of "The Chessie System" referring to the Chesapeake Bay.

[anti-alec]

13. Check UP and Burlington Northern/Santa Fe

Chances are, they're hiring - they just don't know how many to hire.