Hi Everybody.
Well said Rjhowie2, you presented in a much better manner what I was trying to say in what I felt was a lighthearted and humorous posting. I was not trying to flame anybody in what I said but merely to put this whole debate into some perspective with regard to the postings in this thread.
With regard to the comment that I may have criticized Auran or anyone else in my postings elsewhere in this forum, well I think if people check they will find that I have never criticized anything anywhere as my postings have always been asking fellow members for help with problems in my route building or to help others with their problems.
As I said "come on its only a game". It is not as if Auran were designing software which affected people's pensions or health concerns and which contained poor programming and faults, then that would really be something to grouch about. What we have in Trainz is a very reasonably priced product which is designed for enjoyment and which many of us find exactly fits this bill.
Once again I will try and put things into perspective. As I said I took early retirement this year after spending almost all my working life in the road haulage industry first as a heavy goods driver and then as training and safety officer for very large multinational company. I am often requested these days to return and do independent in-depth risk assessments or root cause accident investigation which is what I have been doing today.
In my investigations today I found a driver was asked to go almost 40 miles off of his normal route to collect to small parcels which have been left off the schedule of another journey due to a mistake in the office. The driver who had been ordered off his route was then put under heavy pressure by the same person in that office to get back at his normal time so as to meet a deadline with regard to the leaving of another vehicle with the goods he had collected. With the driver under pressure this caused a severe accident at another delivery he was making later in the day where two people were injured with heavy cages falling from the tailift.
The initial investigation carried out by the depot themselves concluded it was the drivers fault for not operating the tailift lift in the correct manner. My report has concluded that the root cause of the accident was the mistakes and inefficiencies in the office and and the pressure they then subsequently placed on the driver to rectify their mistakes. They also did not mention the deviation from the normal route he was ordered to take in their initial investigation. NOW THAT I FEEL IS SOMETHING REALLY TO GROUCH ABOUT, AND I HAVE DONE.
With that said let's get the attitudes and postings in this forum back into perspective. It's a game, it's a hobby, it's entertaining and often it's a good laugh when things go wrong. So let's lighten up here adopt the attitudes in the above respect and enjoy Trainz as many thousands of us already do.
Bill
