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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 1047031" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p>This is one of those things that apparently is different all over. Here we have full time drivers, one driver classed as an air driver, and utility drivers.</p><p></p><p>The full time drivers include drivers with a bid route and some like me who do not. I could have a bid route by now, but I chose to be a cover driver. I still am guaranteed 8 hours a day and cannot be laid off out of seniority. </p><p></p><p>The one air driver (we used to have more, but all of our air routes except his are now covered by full time drivers and have both air and ground work) only gets the top air driver rate unless they send him back out after air pickups to help with misloads or take work off other drivers.. if he touches a ground package he shoots up to full time rate for the whole day.</p><p></p><p>The utility drivers are all part time employees who normally work the sorts or the air ramp but can be called in when all the FT drivers are in the game and routes are still needing to be covered. I did this for almost a year before going on my packet. These drivers get their part time pay if all they do is work their part time job that day, but if they drive at all they get Utility pay of something like $16 an hour for the whole day, which when I did it was double what I made on the air ramp. They do not have an 8 hour guarantee but that is usually not a problem, they are taking out a full route that we have no cover driver for so they are usually gonna be out over 8 anyway. The utility classification is a rider on the local Alaska agreement.</p><p></p><p>We do have seasonal drivers but they only work in the 4th quarter. They are gone on Dec 25.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 1047031, member: 17867"] This is one of those things that apparently is different all over. Here we have full time drivers, one driver classed as an air driver, and utility drivers. The full time drivers include drivers with a bid route and some like me who do not. I could have a bid route by now, but I chose to be a cover driver. I still am guaranteed 8 hours a day and cannot be laid off out of seniority. The one air driver (we used to have more, but all of our air routes except his are now covered by full time drivers and have both air and ground work) only gets the top air driver rate unless they send him back out after air pickups to help with misloads or take work off other drivers.. if he touches a ground package he shoots up to full time rate for the whole day. The utility drivers are all part time employees who normally work the sorts or the air ramp but can be called in when all the FT drivers are in the game and routes are still needing to be covered. I did this for almost a year before going on my packet. These drivers get their part time pay if all they do is work their part time job that day, but if they drive at all they get Utility pay of something like $16 an hour for the whole day, which when I did it was double what I made on the air ramp. They do not have an 8 hour guarantee but that is usually not a problem, they are taking out a full route that we have no cover driver for so they are usually gonna be out over 8 anyway. The utility classification is a rider on the local Alaska agreement. We do have seasonal drivers but they only work in the 4th quarter. They are gone on Dec 25. [/QUOTE]
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