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BHP to increase train driver ranks by 45pc amid ‘critical’ shortage – The Australian Financial Review
BHP has signaled it has no plans to automate its iron ore trains, saying the 200 extra locomotive drivers it wants to hire will have ‘rewarding careers’.
We are also recruiting 200 new train drivers as trainees to address this critical skills shortage in WA.
Train driving has been considered one of the jobs that could be lost to automation, with Rio spending $US940 million over the past decade introducing its Autohaul system in the Pilbara.
BHP chief executive Mike Henry said in October the financial case for automating BHPs iron ore railways was not sufficiently attractive for now, and Mr Craig said on Wednesday the trainee drivers that joined the…
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