Maybe I am wrong, but, did you not see that the "shiny wheelers" have to be approved by the committee, and their workload is less than on half of one percent of the intermodal work we do not move now. Incidentally, just one move from a road domicile, guarantees the entire boards wages for the whole week.

Let me know what you think.

How does it guarantee the whole board's wages? Not saying it isn't there, but didn't see that part.

Read near the end of Art. 29.

I guess I'm not understanding how it guarantees the whole board's wage for the whole week if they send out one load on the Preferred carrier. There is just a guarantee that you will make $700 in 4 weeks average right? Thats no guarantee for that specific week?

I'll explain it to you. What it says in double speak is that if Linehaul driver wages get below a certain point, they will layoff drivers according to the layoff formula. That is the guarantee.
Saying their workload will be 1/2 % of what is not carried by rail is a misclassification. Reason being according to the contract, they can revert rail percentage back to 26%, if YRC does not designate a Primary Carrier. The only contractual penalty against YRC for them for doing so, is driver layoffs. So the actual workload affected can actually be 30%total to start.

Brushing that number aside and going with your lower number temporarily;
Taking 3.5% off rail and .5% from current linehaul runs can play out this way. The runs being taken off rail do not have point of origin from Chicago, they have point of origin from the East or West coast. They currently require two to three linehaul relays and one or two local relays, each to get from origin to destination. An outside carrier will not pick these up at Chicago and drop them at SCA. They will pick them up say in Boston and drop them in Barstow. This results in a loss of the following; The relay from Boston to Buffalo, the relay from Buffalo to Chicago. The transport to Chicago rail by a Chicago local. The pickup in SCA by a local and the transport by a linehaul driver from there to Barstow. If the run were picked up in Baltimore, it would be relayed to Cleveland linehaul, then relayed to Chicago rail. The pickup on the other end would be the same.

Using your 1/2% or the 4% they could get, on other runs translate this way. Load origin in Albany Ny, relay to Cleveland, Relay to Nashville, Relay to Dallas, Relay to Laredo. Loss of 4 linehaul runs, since pickup would be Albany, dropoff Laredo.

I don't know how many runs would be lost, but it is in the nature of 3 or 4, for every run taken by outside carrier. This doesn't matter if it comes off rail or not. These are all runs that could be done by current teamsters w/sleeper teams instead of all losing their jobs.

There should be a gaurantee in there to protect ALL union jobs as of 3/31/08 As long as everyone works and they want to use shinneywheels to suppliment the road board fine...................But gaurantee all those with seniority #'s will be protected and will work every day. Walk 1 man and no shineywheels PERIOD. Protection is what I am asking for. Been on the yellow job for 3.5 years and haven't worked a full year yet!! Believe me it's not that I don't want to it's the yellow way!