RULE 31. INITIAL TERMINAL DELAY.  (a) Initial terminal delay shall be paid on a minute basis to engineers in freight service after-one hour and fifteen (1’15”) minutes unpaid terminal time has elapsed from the time of reporting for duty up to the time the train leaves the terminal, at one-eighth (1/8) of the basic daily rate, according to the class of engine used, in addition to the full mileage, with the understanding that the actual time consumed in the performance of service in the initial terminal for which an arbitrary allowance of any kind is paid shall be deducted from the initial terminal time under this rule.

NOTE: The phrase “train leaves the terminal” means when the train actually starts on its road trip from the yard track where the train is made up.

Where mileage is allowed between the point of reporting for duty and the point of departure from the track on which the train is first made up, each mile so allowed will extend by 4.8 minutes the period of one hour and fifteen minutes after which initial terminal delay payment begins. 

NOTE 1. The phrase “freight service” as used in this rule does not include pusher, helper, mine run, shifter, roustabout, belt line, transfer, work, wreck, construction, circus train (paid special rates or allowances), road switcher and district runs.    

NOTE 2. The term “freight service” as used in this rule shall apply to engineers of light locomotives when the engineer is paid the road through freight rate and where the light locomotive does not become engaged during the trip or day’s work in any of the services to which initial terminal delay does not apply under Note 1.

(b) When road overtime accrues during any trip or tour of duty, in no case will payment for both initial terminal delay and overtime be paid, but whichever is the greater will be paid.  

(c) When a tour of duty is composed of a series of trips, initial terminal delay will be computed on only the first trip of the tour of duty.

NOTE. For application of this rule to engineers in interdivisional service and including engineers operating in pool freight service Salt Lake City-Pocatello-Salt Lake City, see Section 1 of Part III of Appendix No. 10.