[PRCo] Re: PRC Interurban Pass Points

John Swindler j_swindler at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 5 13:38:32 EST 2003




>Fred Schneider replied:
>
>
>I cannot answer that without looking, but I think it probably applied to 
>men working from any barn.  Because the running time from Connellsville to 
>Greensburg is not even hours (I think it was 90 minutes), no man from any 
>barn could come out with eight hours without trading cars somewhere.


It's not an 8-5 job, Fred.  Making it come out even at eight hours no big 
deal.  Besides, wasn't public transit initially exempt from some overtime 
laws??

Question:  how did overtime pay develop??  By industry or at national 
level??

John




>
>John Swindler wrote:
>
> > >Fred Schneider replied:
> > >
> > >This was previously discussed on this list.  We have West Penn crew
> > >schedules. We were told by Art Ellis that PRC did the same thing.  
>Reason?
> > >Because two round trips on a 2.5 hour one-way run does not equal 8 
>hours,
> > >it equals 10 hours.
> >
> > That's only a problem when the car barn/garage is at the end of the 
>line.
> > In many cases, the schedule writer is working with 1.7 or 2.3 round 
>trips by
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