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Article 24
Calling Crews
A. CALLING CREWS AND
PREPARATORY TIME
1. Where callers are employed, engineers
will be called one hour before going on duty.
(Because of local conditions, calling time may be increased or
decreased by agreement between Division Superintendent and Local
Chairman). The caller will
record on the call sheet time called and for what service the engineer
is called. Where telephones
are used for calls all engineers will be called regardless of distance,
except carrier will not be responsible for payment of other than local
calls. Engineers who reside
within one mile of the point where they take charge of their engines
will not be required to have a telephone but will be called by the
caller. (The provisions of
this rule do not apply to regularly assigned yard engineers).
2. Road freight engineer's time will
commence at the time they are required to report for duty.
Passenger engineers will be required to report thirty minutes
previous to the time the train is called to leave, except at locations
where preparatory time has been changed by agreement.
There shall be no preparatory time for engineers in local
freight, pusher, helper, mine run, work, wrecker, road switcher or yard
service, unless provided for by bulletin.
B. CALLED AND NOT
USED
UTU
Engineer's Agreement provides for a 4 hour payment instead of 3 hours.
1. (Applicable
to Southern Only)
When engineers are called and not used,
they will be paid a minimum of three hours overtime at service and
engine class pro rata rate for which called and stand first out in the
class of service assigned to, but if not released within six hours from
the time they are called, they will be paid for 100 miles in the class
of service and engine for which called and stand last out.
2.
(Applicable to AGS Only)
When
crews are called and not used on account of trains being annulled or
otherwise and are held on duty not to exceed five (5) hours, they will
receive pay for fifty (50) miles at service and engine class rate for
which called and stand first out; if held on duty more than five (5)
hours, they will receive pay for one hundred (100) miles and go behind
all crews then in at that point.
3.
(Applicable to NONE
Only)
Engineers
called and not used will be allowed 50 miles in the class of service and
engine for which they were called, and will stand first out, but if not
relieved within six hours they will receive pay for 100 miles for the
class of service and engine for which they were called and will stand
last out.
NOTE: When
an engineer is called and advised prior to departure from his home or
place of abode that the call is canceled, the provisions of
this paragraph (B) shall not apply but the engineer shall stand
first out in the class of service assigned to.
C. NOT CALLED IN
ORDER
1. When
an engineer in extra service standing first out is not called in his
turn through no fault of his own, he will be paid for fifty (50) miles
or four (4) hours, at pro rata rate, at the rate of pay he would have
made and stand first out. If
not called for service within the limit of eight (8) hours, an
additional fifty (50) miles or four (4) hours, at pro rata rate, will be
allowed and he will stand last out; provided that under this rule not
more than one run-around may be claimed in any twenty-four (24) hour
period by the same man.
2. Engineers
in regularly assigned yard service or turns in pool freight service, not
called in order, will be paid amount they would have earned on the day
or trip for which they stood, less any amount which they earn.
3. In
all cases time tickets, supported by proper evidence, shall be filed
with Superintendent.
D. REPORTING FOR DUTY
1. When
engineers, other than extra, pool or chain gang, lay off for any cause,
they will be required to mark up for work not less than six (6) hours
before going on duty.
EXCEPTION - When
an engineer working at an outlying point lays off for any cause and
desires to report for duty, he must report not later than three (3)
hours after the scheduled or assigned on duty time of his assignment on
the work day before he expects to protect the assignment.
The engineer working will be notified before the end of his tour
of duty.
When an engineer desires to exercise a
seniority displacement on an outlying point assignment he must signify
his intention to make such displacement not later than three (3) hours
after the schedule or assigned on duty time of the assignment on the
work day before he expects to protect the assignment.
NOTE: An
outlying job is defined as a job which does not originate and terminate
at the point of supply for crews.
EXAMPLE:
An outlying job is assigned to go on duty at 7:00 AM. If the engineer
desires to report and work the outlying point assignment, he must report
not later than 10:00 AM on the work day prior to the day he expects to
protect the assignment.
(If an assignment has Sunday as an off day, he must report on
Saturday if he expects to work on Monday).
2. When
an extra passenger, an extra freight or an extra yard engineer standing
first out on the extra board marks off for any cause, such engineer will
not be permitted to mark up, except where his use is deemed necessary
to meet the needs of the service, until the engineer who accepts
the next call is marked up on the extra board.
If the call is for an outlying run or job, the engineer marked
off will not be permitted to mark up, except where his use is deemed
necessary to meet the needs of the service until the engineer who
accepts the call to the outlying run or job returns to the terminal.
However, such engineer may be permitted, at his own expense, to
go to the outlying point and relieve the engineer who accepted the call.
3. When
an extra passenger, an extra freight or an extra yard engineer standing
other than first out on the extra board marks off for any cause, he will
not be permitted to mark up, except where his use is deemed necessary to
meet the needs of the service, within twenty-four hours of the time
marked off.
4. When
an extra passenger, an extra freight or an extra yard engineer standing
other than first out on the extra board marks off for any cause, and, as
a result thereof, misses a call in turn to an outlying run or job, he
will not be permitted to mark up, except where his use is deemed
necessary to meet the need of the service, until the engineer who
accepts the call to the outlying run or job returns to the terminals.
However, such engineer may be permitted, at his own expense, to
go to the outlying point at the expiration of twenty-four hours from the
time marked off and relieve the engineer who accepted et call.
NOTE: The
language used in Sections 3, 4, and 5 reading as follows:
"except where his use is deemed necessary to meet the needs
of the service," is understood to mean when no extra or emergency engineer is available.
5. Nothing
in this Article 24 shall interfere with application of discipline in
proper cases where men decline service without good cause.
E. When
calling two freight engineers in the same pool or group of runs to depart
from the same terminal to go to the same distant terminal, the following
will apply if one is to deadhead and the other operate an engine.
1. The
first out engineer will be given the call which goes on duty and under
pay first.
EXAMPLES:
(a) If the deadhead is to commence before
the work assignment goes on duty, the first out man will deadhead.
(b) If the work assignment goes on duty
before the engineer deadheading goes on duty (no matter what mode
transportation used) then the first out engineer will be used on the
work assignment.
2. If
both the work assignment and deadhead go on duty at the same tine the
first out engineer will be deadheaded and will stand first out at the
distance terminal.
F.
1. At locations where road and engineer seniority consolidation
exists, the following procedure will be used in filling vacancies in road
engineer service:
First: From
the road engineers extra board.
Second: From the ranks of the road
engineers.
Third: The first out yard extra board
engineer who is qualified for road service and has dual rights.
Fourth: By
a demoted yard engineer who is qualified for road service and has dual
rights.
2.
At locations where a consolidated road and yard engineer seniority
roster is not in existence, the following procedure will be used in filling
vacancies in road engineer service.
First:
From the road engineer's extra board.
Second: From the ranks of demoted road
engineers.
NOTE:
In applying the provisions of this Article 26(f) 1 and 2, if not
men are available, past practices heretofore in effect will be followed.
G.
Carded, pool or assigned freight engineers used in emergency in
wrecking service shall be relieved after the first tour of duty by an
extra engineer.
Pool engineers to be sent to their home terminals; carded or
assigned engineers sent to protect their runs, if operated.
This page last updated:
03/06/2005
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