Happybob,
Over95 is right. At least in my neck of the woods (and from his posts it appears we work in the same great state of Massachusetts). I was an air driver way back in '99 and picked up letter boxes at night.
My fellow PM air driver would have to pick-up grounds 1 or twice a week and would get top ground-rate for his entire shift when he did so. He didn't need to file. Well, maybe he had to at first, but every subsequent pick-up was made at ground rate.
Over95 mentioned that the union had a victory when the company was forced to pay air drivers ground rate when theyshuttled ground packages. And I say that was great! But I have since noticed that I don't get ground packages shuttled to me from air drivers anymore. They are brought to me by my Sup

!
What are we supposed to about this? File a grievence? Sheet any package we get shuttled to us by management as missed? I think this will be the only way we as teamsters can hurt management to the point that they use teamsters to do teamster work. Yes grievences help, but if we all banded together and had every parcel sheeted as missed, we would make more progress.
An air driver is only allowed to pick up ground packages if he is at the stop after the regular driver and he was asked to take a late ground that came down after the regular driver. An air driver is allowed to shuttle work out to regular drivers, but only when a regular driver is not available, and correct me if I'm wrong over9.5, he gets paid his regular rate for the shuttle work. When being asked to go out and make a pick up of grounds then he must be paid the regular driver top rate, and the senior member not offered the extra work can grieve for extra pay at time and a half. At least that's how NNE area has handled this problem.