TRAVELING
SWITCHER ASSIGNMENTS
(a) Condition of Assignment: Traveling switcher assignments
may be made combining road service and yard service, provided all such service
is performed within a zone, extending twenty‑five miles in each direction
from the home terminal. Trainmen in such service will be paid the highest rate
for any class of service performed, but not less than the local freight rate,
for the entire trip or day's work. One hundred miles or less, eight hours or
less, shall constitute a day, overtime to be computed on the minute basis at
the overtime rate, time to be computed continuously from the time required to
report for duty until released from duty. If required to depart from home
terminal after having been on duty eight hours or after having run one hundred
miles, a new day will begin. Such assignments shall not be established out of
Argo, Albina, The Dalles, Hinkle, La Grande, Huntington or Spokane, except by
agreement between the Company and the Organization.
(b) How Bulletined and Assigned: All new and vacant runs
will be bulletined for six days. Bulletin will definitely specify the terminal
of the assignment and time fixed to begin work. When starting time of a run is
changed two hours or less from time required to report for duty, forty‑eight
hours' advance notice will be given of such change, and if changed more than
two hours the run will be re-bulletined for seniority choice. Rights to runs
will be governed by seniority.
NOTE: In
the application of paragraph (b) the regular conductor and brakemen will remain
on the run pending assignment of the bulletin whenever a change is made of the
type contemplated therein.
(c) Used
Outside Assigned Territory- Penalty: Trainmen in traveling switcher service
used outside of their assigned territory will be allowed a minimum of one
hundred miles therefor at the rate and under the rules governing the service
performed on the extra trip, but such time or miles will not be used in
computing time on the assignment.
(d) Engines
How Equipped: Engines assigned to traveling switcher service shall be
equipped with headlights and footboard, and unless a caboose is used, with a
suitable box in which clothes and lunch boxes may be placed. An engine
temporarily assigned to traveling switcher service shall be so equipped at the
first opportunity, If such engine is to be continued in traveling switcher
service more than twenty-four hours.
(e) Conductors
Allowed Arbitrary Hour: Conductor will be paid one (1) hour at pro rata
rates in addition to all other time made by the crew of which he is conductor.
This does not apply on side trips made outside assigned territory during a trip
or day's work, but will apply if required to depart from home terminal after
having been on duty eight (8) hours or having run one hundred (100) miles.
NOTE 1:
Rules 7, 8 and 9 are not applicable to traveling switcher assignments.
NOTE 2: See Appendix No. 5 for traveling switcher
agreements.