UTILITY DRIVERS. After completion of a thirty (30) day on road training period in the same center, a new driver is given the utility driving job, unless a driver with more seniority wants such utility work. This enables high seniority drivers to be on regular assigned sections when such work becomes available in the center to which the employee is assigned. Seniority shall be observed when loaning out utility drivers to another center. When directed on a scheduled day of dispatch, travel time to and from another facility shall be considered paid for time. Employees will use the Employer’s vehicles whenever possi- ble. Employee’s who use their personal vehicle shall be ▇▇▇▇- bursed at the applicable IRS rate per mile. Employees using their personal vehicles shall be paid for both time and mileage beyond his/her normal commute. When delivery area vacancies are scheduled for a week or more, utility drivers shall bid, in seniority order, those vacated areas on a week by week basis. Once a utility driver is awarded a weekly vacancy bid, in accordance with their seniority, they shall not be removed from that weekly vacancy bid, except when the regular bid driver returns to work during the week. These delivery area vacancies shall be posted by Thursday of the prior week.
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UTILITY DRIVERS. After completion of a thirty (30) day on road training period in the same center, a new driver is given the utility driving job, unless a driver with more seniority wants such utility work. This enables high seniority drivers to be on regular assigned sections when such work becomes available in the center to which the employee is assignedas- signed. Seniority shall be observed when loaning out utility drivers to another center. No driver shall be loaned to a center where there are driver(s) on a layoff status. Any extraordinary/emergency need to do so, shall first be reviewed with the Local Union. When directed direct- ed on a scheduled day of dispatch, travel time to and from another facility shall be considered paid for time. Employees will use the Employer’s vehicles whenever possi- blepossible. Employee’s Employees who use their personal vehicle shall be ▇▇▇▇- bursed reimbursed at the applicable IRS rate per mile. Employees using their personal vehicles shall be paid for both time and mileage beyond his/her normal their nor- mal commute. When delivery area vacancies are scheduled for a week or more, utility drivers shall bid, in seniority order, those vacated areas on a week by week-by-week basis. Once a utility driver is awarded a weekly vacancy va- cancy bid, in accordance with their seniority, they shall not be removed re- moved from that weekly vacancy bid, except when the regular bid driver returns to work during the week. These delivery area vacancies vacan- cies shall be posted by Thursday of the prior week. All known vacancies of less than one (1) week shall be posted the week prior to the opening and offered in seniority order to all utili- ty drivers. Utility drivers who are not on a weekly vacancy bid, shall have the ability in seniority order, to bid a known vacancy in the current week, provided there is a minimum of twenty-four (24) hour ad- vanced notice prior to the vacancy.
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