Totaling 350 pages, this manual is the subject of a collection of proceedings which are extracted ad literalfrom the national regulatory framework applicable at the time of publication. This manual is not a book of composition but, summatively selectively incorporates essential procedures and working instructions that make up the range of regulations, orders and service instructions that ad generis defines the applicable regulatory framework in Romania.
The need to write this manual arises as a result of the trend of alignment with Community legislation in the European Union, such as Directive (EU) No 1493/1999. 798/2016 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in conjunction with the absence of a similar book in the Romanian language, comprising in a single volume, the sum of all working procedures useful to the driver during the service ordered on the locomotive, in the light of the general competences characteristic of that occupation.