24th June 2006, 01:36 PM
Archs getting machine tickets has been suggested at my company, and has met with an enthusiastic response from the archs. One of the hurdles to overcome though is new-ish driver ticket regulations that(I've not seen them myself) apparently require a certain number of hours per year to maintain the ticket. Machine drivers find it hard to maintain a ticket for both a JCB and a 360 for example, so one wonders if an archaeologist could get enough hours on one machine, while doing the rest of the multitude of things the job entails. The answer for the machine drivers seems to be they fudge it, because the regulation is not strongly enforced, but that is not a solution I'd feel particularly comfortable with.