Field Trip Assignment. 1. All approved field trips shall be posted as they are received by the Transportation Coordinator or his/her designee and drivers shall be assigned to the posted trips as soon as practicable. 2. Trips shall be assigned by the Transportation Coordinator or his/her designee according to availability, and on a seniority rotational basis. 3. A driver who accepts a trip shall be held responsible for operating the run. The assigned driver shall be considered as having accepted the assignment unless within forty-eight (48) hours of posting, the driver assigned shall give a written notice that he/she cannot accept the trip. In that event, the driver will be charged with the trip and the trip shall be assigned to the next senior unassigned driver and be so charged. 4. In the event that a driver is requested to take a field trip on an emergency basis, i.e., the driver who is requested to take the trip is given less than twenty-four (24) hours notice of the trip, the driver may refuse the trip and not be charged with refusal. In the event of an emergency as above defined, the Transportation Coordinator or his/her designee shall call the next two (2) drivers on the seniority list to secure a replacement. In the event of two (2) refusals or inability to contact the two (2) drivers the Transportation Coordinator shall secure a driver without reference to the seniority list. Neither the drivers who refused nor the driver who accepts shall be charged, and the next trip shall be assigned by reference to the seniority list.
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