Rate Committee. The Company acknowledges that the assistance of the Union in determining rates charged to customers is invaluable and welcomes such support. With this spirit of cooperation as a basis a joint committee of three (3) representatives of the Company and three (3) from the Union shall be formed immediately and shall meet monthly and at such additional other times as shall be agreed upon by this committee to review the rates charged to customers by the Company. The committee shall consider all rate change proposals made by the Union. The rising cost of living shall be one of the factors taken into account in determining whether or not there should be a rate increase. Whenever possible decisions as to rate increases and the time of such rate increases shall be made during the meeting in which the proposals are made. Provided however that the Company reserves the right to take any rate increase proposal under advisement in which case a decision regarding such proposal shall be communicated to the Union members of the committee at the next meeting of the committee or sooner as the Company so desires. The parties acknowledge that certain individual calls if required to be services in isolation may result in an inadequate return to an employee / owner operator being required to service it. Accordingly, the Company dispatcher shall whenever possible use his / her best efforts to combine other calls with such a single call in order to compensate for such situations and that the dispatchers will be obligated by the Company to rotate such calls fairly among the pool of drivers normally servicing such accounts so that no employee / owner operator shall be obliged to do all such calls, unless he / she exclusively services such client, and that the employees / owner operators agree that they will not refuse to handle such calls. Provided, however, and it is hereby understood and agreed that the provisions of this Article in no way modify or limit the Company’s right as set forth in Article 8.02, and that it is distinctly understood and agreed that regardless of any other provision of this Agreement the Company has the absolute right to fix such rates with its customers as it desires.
Rate Committee. The Company agrees to provide transparent to the costing methods used to determine commission rates detailed in postings. The forum for these discussion will be the monthly rate committee meetings. The purpose of this is to obtain feedback for the committee members on the calculations used to determine pricing and commission rates. The Company agrees to provide all applicable information to assist the parties in developing competitively priced quotations and postings.
Rate Committee. (a) The Company acknowledges that the assistance of the Union in determining rates charged to customers and in establishing procedures and practices that will contribute to increasing the income of both Owner Operators and Employees and the Company is invaluable and welcomes such input. There shall be a joint committee of two (2) representatives of the Company and two (2) from the Union will be formed and shall meet as required to review the rates charged customers by the Company as well as issues relating to average daily Owner Operator and Employee revenues, fleet size, average calls per day, discount levels and business or product development. The parties will also discuss tolling practices and billing methods through the Rate Committee meetings.
