Common use of Extra Trips and Special Runs Clause in Contracts

Extra Trips and Special Runs. 1. Full time bus drivers can take the special runs and extra trips. They will be asked first to do the trips before any sub is asked unless the assignment will result in overtime. Subs will take the normal routes. 2. Regular drivers shall sign up for extra trips at the beginning of the school year. 3. Regular driver’s availability shall be determined by their departure and arrival times on their regular routes. 4. Sub drivers shall not be assigned to trips that a full-time driver is available for unless there are not enough regular drivers. a. Assignments of extra trips will be made by the supervisor according to dates and times. The driver of greatest seniority will be assigned the first trip with each succeeding trip being assigned, in turn, to the next most senior driver that has signed the trip sheet. Extra trips shall be rotated based upon seniority. b. Laid off drivers will be given preferential consideration over substitute drivers and will be assigned only after all regular drivers have either accepted or rejected an assignment. Laid off drivers will be assigned in the same rotational manner as regular drivers. 5. The layover rate will be paid during any layover time at an event. Layover time will include any time the driver is on duty while at an event, whether on the bus or not, except while driving or while supervising students who must be on the bus during the layover or when required by the supervisor to stay on the bus when the driving rate will be paid. The primary responsibility of supervision of students resides with the coach or chaperone. When a driver has to stay with the bus because members of the team or group are continually on and off the bus during an event, the Transportation Supervisor must be notified.(moved from paragraph 5) 6. If a driver cannot accept the trip because of illness, the driver shall return the requisition to the Transportation Supervisor who will reassign the trip to the next driver eligible for one. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she had to relinquish because of illness. 7. Within three (3) work days of accepting a trip assignment, the driver shall notify the Transportation Supervisor if it becomes necessary for them to relinquish the trip for personal reason except in cases of illness or emergency. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she relinquished. Trips may not be traded or given away. If a driver has less than three (3) days to relinquish the trip, they will not be penalized. 8. Regular and substitute drivers shall sign up for summer trips and will be assigned by seniority. 9. The driver is required to check the bus hourly for vandalism, flat tires, etc., while at the event. 10. All trip sheets shall be submitted with the bi-weekly time sheet for the period the trip was incurred.

Extra Trips and Special Runs. 1. One Full time bus drivers driver can take the special runs and extra tripstrips per day in lieu of their regular route. They will be asked first to do the trips before any sub is asked asked, unless the assignment will result in overtime. Additional regular drivers may be assigned at the discretion of the transportation director. Subs will take the normal routes. 2. Regular drivers shall sign up for extra trips at the beginning of the school year. 3. Regular Except for the circumstances outlined in Article B (1) above, regular driver’s availability shall be determined by their departure and arrival times on their regular routes. 4. Sub drivers shall not be assigned to trips that a full-time driver is available for unless there are not enough regular drivers. a. Assignments of extra Extra trips will shall be made chosen by regular route drivers under the supervisor supervisor’s discretion according to dates and times. The driver of greatest seniority will be assigned choose the first trip with each succeeding trip being assignedchosen, in turn, to by the next most senior driver that has signed the trip sheet. Extra trips shall be rotated based upon seniority. b. Laid off drivers will be given preferential consideration over substitute drivers and will be assigned only after all regular drivers have either accepted or rejected an assignment. Laid off drivers will be assigned in the same rotational manner as regular drivers. 5. The layover trip rate will be paid during any layover time at an eventfor athletic and extra trips. Layover time The trip rate will include any time the driver is on duty while at an event, whether on the bus or not, except including while driving or while supervising students who must be on the bus during the layover or when required by the supervisor to stay on the bus when the driving rate will be paidbus. The primary responsibility of supervision of students resides with the coach or chaperone. When a driver has to stay with the bus because members of the team or group are continually on and off the bus during an event, the Transportation Supervisor must be notified.(moved notified. (moved from paragraph 5) 6. If a driver cannot accept the trip because of illness, the driver shall return the requisition to the Transportation Supervisor who will reassign the trip to the next driver eligible for one. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she had to relinquish because of illness. 7. Within three (3) work days of accepting a trip assignment, the driver shall notify the Transportation Supervisor if it becomes necessary for them to relinquish the trip for personal reason except in cases of illness or emergency. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she relinquished. Trips may not be traded or given away. If a driver has less than three (3) days to relinquish the trip, they will not be penalized, by the loss of a trip square on the trip sign-up sheet. 8. Regular and substitute drivers shall sign up for summer trips and will be assigned by seniority, regular drivers first. No sub driver will receive a trip that a regular driver is available to drive. One attempt will be made to contact each driver. 9. The driver is required to check the bus hourly for vandalism, flat tires, etc., while at the event. 10. All trip sheets shall be submitted with the bi-weekly time sheet record for the period the trip was incurred.

Extra Trips and Special Runs. 1. Full time bus drivers can take the special runs and extra trips. They will be asked first to do the trips before any sub is asked unless the assignment will result in overtime. Subs will take the normal routes. 2. Regular drivers shall sign up for extra trips at the beginning of the school year. 32. Regular driver’s availability shall be determined by their departure and arrival times on their regular routes. 43. Sub drivers shall not be assigned to trips that a full-time driver is available for unless there are not enough regular drivers. a. Assignments of extra trips will be made by the supervisor according to dates and times. The driver of greatest seniority will be assigned the first trip with each succeeding trip being assigned, in turn, to the next most senior driver that has signed the trip sheet. Extra trips shall be rotated based upon seniority. b. Laid off drivers will be given preferential consideration over substitute drivers and will be assigned only after all regular drivers have either accepted or rejected an assignment. Laid off drivers will be assigned in the same rotational manner as regular drivers. 54. The layover rate will be paid during any layover time at an event. Layover time will include any time the driver is on duty while at an event, whether on the bus or not, except while driving or while supervising students who must be on the bus during the layover or when required by the supervisor to stay on the bus when the driving rate will be paid. The primary responsibility of supervision of students resides with the coach or chaperone. When a driver has to stay with the bus because members of the team or group are continually on and off the bus during an event, the Transportation Supervisor must be notified.(moved from paragraph 5) 65. If a driver cannot accept the trip because of illness, the driver shall return the requisition to the Transportation Supervisor who will reassign the trip to the next driver eligible for one. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she had to relinquish because of illness. 76. Within three (3) work days of accepting a trip assignment, the driver shall notify the Transportation Supervisor if it becomes necessary for them to relinquish the trip for personal reason except in cases of illness or emergency. The driver shall not receive another trip to replace the one he/she relinquished. Trips may not be traded or given away. If a driver has less than three (3) days to relinquish the trip, they will not be penalized. 87. Regular and substitute drivers shall sign up for summer trips and will be assigned by seniority. 98. The driver is required to check the bus hourly for vandalism, flat tires, etc., while at the event. 109. All trip sheets shall be submitted with the bi-weekly time sheet for the period the trip was incurred.