SHORT TURNAROUND SERVICE
(a) Trainmen in pool or irregular freight service may be called to
make short trips or turnarounds, with the understanding that one or more
turnaround trips may be started out of the same terminal and paid actual miles
with a minimum of 100 miles for a day; provided: (1) that the mileage of all
the trips does not exceed 100 miles; (2) that the distance run from the
terminal to the turning point does not exceed 25 miles; and (3) that trainmen
shall not be required to begin work on a succeeding trip out of the Initial
terminal after having been on duty eight consecutive hours, except as a new
day, subject to the first‑in first‑out rule or practice.
This rule will not permit the
running of crews through terminals on to districts where they are not assigned,
when crews of that district are available.
(b) At the away‑from‑home terminal, a crew in pool
freight service used for one turnaround trip under paragraph (a) shall not be
used for successive trips In turnaround service, if other pool freight crews
are available.
(c) A crew in pool freight service who has made one trip in turnaround
service under paragraph (b) shall be placed first out, arriving time to govern,
upon completion of the turnaround trip and will not, if other pool freight
crews are available, be used for a second turnaround trip but shall hold their
first‑out position and shall next be used in straightaway service to
their home terminal. Available pool freight crew holding subsequent turn on the
pool freight board at the away‑from‑home terminal will be used for
such turnaround trip. Availability of pool freight crews for use in
straightaway service out of their away-from‑home terminal to their home
terminal shall be governed by the provisions of Rule 38.
NOTE: In
the application of paragraph (c), it is understood that pool crews called to
make short trips out of the away‑from‑home terminal under paragraph
(b) shall be deemed as having made only one turnaround trip notwithstanding
that more than one turnaround trip was started out of the sane away‑from‑home
terminal point.
(d) Insofar as this rule applies to the
operations described in paragraphs (b) and (c), the first‑in, first‑out
provisions shall not apply and the penalty provisions thereof for not being
called in turn shall, likewise, not apply. The provisions of Rule 38 shall,
nonetheless, apply when employees not fully rested are held for rest.
(e) Crews in Interdivisional service in the territory between Hinkle and Albina only, used in short turnaround service, shall be governed by the provisions of Supplemental Understanding No. 6 of the Interdivisional Service Agreement of August 26, 1972 reproduced as Appendix No. 3.