ITEM 72: Trainmen allowed deadhead miles to food and lodging
| Description: ITEM - 72 February 8, 1958
Dear Sir: This has reference to your letter of January 13, 1958 submitting a list of requests which were reviewed with your sub - Committee of road local chairmen on January 29, 1958, and with particular reference to the following request: "Request that when trainmen are held at one intermediate point waiting to be transported to another intermediate point to secure either a place to eat or sleeping accommodations, such trainmen will be allowed actual miles transported, or actual time from time tied up until time of arrival at point where eating or sleeping accommodations can be secured, whichever is the greater." You were advised in my letter dated March 20, 1957, that it has been the practice on the Eastern District to allow deadhead miles from the tie - up point to the point where eating and sleeping accommodations are available although there is no schedule rule providing for such allowance. Consistent with that past practice, trainmen who are tied up at an intermediate point where no eating or sleeping accommodations are available and are required to deadhead to another point to secure such accommodations will be allowed actual miles deadheaded to and from such point. |
