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agent de desserte

English translation: shunter


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French term or phrase:agent de desserte
English translation:shunter
Entered by: Carolyn Brice
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13:27 Mar 20, 2009
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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
French term or phrase: agent de desserte
This is a text on regulations for working hours for the various people working on trains. I am having trouble finding the equivalents... I will post each term separately.
Carolyn Brice
Greece
Local time: 03:47
shunter
Explanation:
Shunter is a generic term for the person who moves vehicles around for operational reasons - less skilled than a driver as a shunter operates on a restricted licence that wouldn't permit him or her to drive the vehicle outside the depot
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jaynedmoore
Local time: 01:47
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This sounds like the most appropriate. Thanks to all though!
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Summary of answers provided
4yard manMichel F. Morin
3shunter
jaynedmoore
Summary of reference entries provided
Some definitions:Alain Pommet

  

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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
shunter


Explanation:
Shunter is a generic term for the person who moves vehicles around for operational reasons - less skilled than a driver as a shunter operates on a restricted licence that wouldn't permit him or her to drive the vehicle outside the depot

jaynedmoore
Local time: 01:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 22
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This sounds like the most appropriate. Thanks to all though!
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3 days22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
yard man


Explanation:
As a synonym for "shunter"


    Reference: http://www.granddictionnaire.com/BTML/FRA/r_Motclef/index800...
Michel F. Morin
France
Local time: 02:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Reference: Some definitions:

Reference information:
agent de desserte : agent, quelles que soient ses autres fonctions, chargé de l'application des consignes de desserte ; sur les lignes à trafic restreint, agent du train chargé de l'application du règlement correspondant ;
http://www.snof.org/vue/ferroviaire.html

Tu peux filmer la vie d'un agent de desserte fret si tu veux. Je t'invite à Chartres, notre travail consiste à livrer des trains de céréales vides et les récupérer chargés.
http://www.cheminots.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=11490

Agent de desserte Titulaire d’un BEP à dominante technique (mécanique, électrique, maintenance, électrotechnique…), vous serez en charge : de l’accrochage / décrochage de wagons, de la réalisation des opérations et essais techniques sur les convois avant départ. de l’organisation des manœuvres des wagons et des mouvements des convois, de l...
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:EnyZdXE7YxsJ:emploi.tro...

Alain Pommet
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 56
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